Heiko Zimmermann is a PhD student at Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences focusing on machine learning, advised by Professor Jan-Willem van de Meent. He works on probabilistic modeling and inference. Heiko earned his BS and MS from the University of Stuttgart, where he worked on Bayesian Optimization and its applications in Robotics and biomechanics. At Northeastern he is focusing on Bayesian methods for inference in probabilistic models, probabilistic programming.