The London Air Quality Project Repository

We are excited to announce that our London Air Quality Project repository is now open to the public!

December 2024

Mengqi Chen and Harita Dellaporta are attending Greek Stochastics.

Mengqi and Harita are attending Greek Stochastics to present their work on Robust Bayesian inference.

July 2024

Impact award funding from the Alan Turing Institute DCE!

The London Air Quality Project receives Impact Award funding from the Alan Turing Institute Data-centric Engineering.

July 2024

Terje Mildner received the DCS Best Student Project Award for his 3rd year UG thesis!

Congratulations to Terje Mildner on receiving the Outstanding CS Dept. Third-Year Project Prize for his third-year Thesis!!! The thesis was co-supervised by Dr. Hamelinjck and Prof. Theo Damoulas.

July 2024

New URSS/RAs!

3 top notch UGs joining the group for the summer to conduct research as URSS/RAs: Paul Francis from Warwick Maths, Terje Mildner from Warwick DCS, Arqam Patel from IIT Kanpur.

June 2024

Ollie Hamelijnck passing his PhD viva - congrats Dr!

Ollie Hamelijnck passing his PhD viva with very minor corrections

June 2024

Dr Igor Carboni Oliveira has been promoted to Associate Professor

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Igor Carboni Oliveira as our newest associated professor joining our group! 🎉

January 2024

Two New Assistant Professors

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Fanghui Liu and Dr. Debmalya Mandal have joined our group as Assistant Professors. Welcome aboard! 🎉

October 2023

Mate Dravucz to give oral presentation at Greek Stochastics.

Greek Stochastics meeting will take place in Corfu, Greece, on 23-26 August 2022. Mate Dravucz will present 'Jointly Learning Consistent Causal Abstraction Over Multiple Interventional Distributions.'

July 2022

Patrick O'Hara receives internship at Amazon.

Patrick O'Hara has received six months 'Applied Scientist Intern' position in Amazon starting in October 2022.

June 2022

Harita Dellaporta wins the AISTATS 2022 Best Paper Award.

Congratulations to Harita Dellaporta for winning the AISTATS 2022 Best Paper Award for the paper 'Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap'.

March 2022

Prof Theo Damoulas and Prof Yulan He win the prestigious Turing AI acceleration fellowships.

The Turing AI Acceleration fellowships will accelerate and support the careers of a diverse cadre of the best and brightest AI researchers enabling them to become world-leading researchers in the five years of the award.

November 2020

Nicola Branchini wins the Dissertation Prize for the MSc in AI at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

The dissertation project was on designing improved classes of Auxiliary Particle Filters and was supervised by Dr. Víctor Elvira from the School of Mathematics.

October 2020

Five papers accepted to NeurIPS 2020.

The papers are titled : Generalized bayesian filtering via sequential monte carlo, VarGrad: A low variance gradient estimator for variational inference, Multi-task causal learning with gaussian processes, Optimal Learning from Verified Training Data, Adversarial Blocking Bandits. Congratulations to Ayman, Dr Deniz Akylidiz, Virginia, Dr Long Tran-Thanh and Prof Theo Damoulas.

September 2020

Prof Theo Damoulas Turing insight talk
Prof Theo Damoulas is the Insight Speaker at the BCS-IET Turing talk 2020.

Theo will explain how our urban digital twin for air quality. The talk features an amazing video created by James Walsh which dives into our digital twin of London. Established by BCS and the IET, the Turing Talk honours and recognises Alan Turing's outstanding contribution to computing.

February 2020

Virginia Aglietti has paper accepted to AISTATS 2020.

The paper is titled 'Causal Bayesian Optimization' and is co-authored with Gonzalez J. & Lu X.

January 2020

Dr Neil Dhir
Dr Neil Dhir joins Warwick Machine Learning Group.

Neil will be working on the London air quality project at the Alan Turing Institute.

January 2020

Juan Maronas joins as a visiting researcher for four months based at the Alan Turing Institute.

Juan joins from the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology Research Center in Valencia.

January 2020

Virginia Aglietti
Virginia Aglietti is offered an internship at Microsoft.

January 2020

Joe Meagher PhD
Joe Meagher has submitted his PhD in Statistics.

January 2020

Prof Theo Damoulas gives talk at the Data Science in Transport conference.

The talk was organized by the Department for Transport

January 2020

Prof. Graham Cormode is nominated 2020 ACM fellow.

Graham Cormode joins a list of only 16 to win this award in Europe.

January 2021

Patrick O'Hara Walking and Cycling Innovations 2019
Patrick O'Hara to give talk and the Walking & Cycling Innovations Conference 2019

Patrick will give a 10 minute talk at the conference in Manchester describing how machine learning and graph optimisation algorithms can be used to minimise the air pollution exposure of people moving around a city.

December 2019

Dr Kangrui Wang AI UK
Dr Kangrui Wang's proposal to AI UK succeeds.

Kangrui will demonstrate a disease-symptom diagnosis method. The event will be held on the 24-25 March 2020.

December 2019

Ollie Hamelijnck at NeurIPS 2019
Ollie Hamelijnck presents Multi-resolution Multi-task Gaussian Processes at NeurIPS 2019

December 2019

Virginia Aglietti at NeurIPS 2019
Virginia Aglietti presents Structured Variational Inference in Continuous Cox Process Models at NeurIPS 2019

December 2019

Dr Tanaya Guha ICME2020 Multimodal People Analytics in Media
Dr Tanaya Guha to organize a special session at ICME2020 on 'Multimodal People Analytics in Media'.

Submission deadline for papers is 13th Dec 2019. The conference will be held in London on 6th-10th July 2020. See the link for details.

December 2019

Dr Daniel Tait Physics-Informed Machine Learning
Dr Daniel Tait's TMCF proposal succeeds.

Daniel will lead a Theory & Methods Challenge Fortnight (TMCF) titled Physics-Informed Machine Learning at the Alan Turing Institute in the Summer of 2020. Daniel's proposal competed against three other high quality, well-received proposals.

October 2019

James Walsh and Prof Theo Damoulas Turing bridge LRF
James Walsh and Prof Theo Damoulas demonstrate the Turing bridge at the LRF Conference 2019.

After many hours of work, James and Theo demonstrated the Alan Turing Institute's 3D-printed mini bridge at the Lloyd's Register Foundation Conference 2019.

October 2019

Two papers accepted to NeurIPS 2019.

The papers are titled Structured Variational Inference in Continuous Cox Process Models and Multi-resolution Multi-task Gaussian Processes. Congratulations to Ollie Hamelijnck, Virginia Aglietti, Dr Kangrui Wang and Prof Theo Damoulas.

September 2019

Prof Theo Damoulas Bayes4Health
Prof Theo Damoulas gives talk at the Bayes4Health workshop.

The talk was held at  at Lancaster University. The talk is titled Multiresolution Multitask Gaussian Processes: Air quality in London.

September 2019

EPSRC grant Dr Johansen and Dr Damoulas
Prof Adam Johansen and Prof Theo Damoulas awarded EPSRC grant.

The grant is titled 'Robust, Scalable Sequential Monte Carlo with Applications To Urban Air Quality'. The grant will be for three years

September 2019

Karla Monterrubio Gomez submitted PhD.
Karla Monterrubio Gomez has submitted her PhD in Statistics.

September 2019

Congratulations to Dr Daniel Tait for the successful defence of his PhD thesis.

Daniel completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh investigating latent force models with multiplicative interactions.

August 2019

Jeremias Knoblauch Generalized Variational Inference workshop
Jeremias Knoblauch delivers workshop on Generalized Variational Inference

The workshop was held at the Alan Turing Institute on 19th July 2019. Jeremias derived posteriors from Generalized Variational Inference and presented new consistency results for them.

July 2019

Prof Theo Damoulas to give talk at Queen Mary University of London.

The event is called 'Air Quality in Urban Areas: Harnessing Data to Breathe Easy' and will be held on 23rd July.

July 2019

Patrick O'Hara gives talk at CogX 2019.

The talk was held on the Alan Turing Research Stage. It was titled 'Running from air pollution: prediction, forecasting & routing'.

June 2019

Charlie Dickins Amazon Internship
Charlie Dickins receives internship at Amazon

The internship is 12 weeks long, running from June to September.

May 2019

Prof Theo Damoulas has been appointed Deputy Director for the Data-Centric Engineering (DCE) programme at Turing.

May 2019

Virginia Aglietti accepts an internship offer from Amazon.

The internship is for three months from August 2019 until November 2019.

April 2019

Patrick O'Hara gives interview to Wired magazine.

He discusses why the design of algorithms for urban walking, running and cycling routes which minimise air pollution is a complex challenge.

April 2019

Prof Theo Damoulas gives interview to BBC

The article is titled: 'Tracking the toxic air that's killing millions'. It highlights the London Air Quality project at Turing.

April 2019

Ollie Hamelijnck wins a prestigious PhD Feuer International Scholarship in AI.

The scholarship covers tuition fees for 3 years; a stipend at RCUK rate plus a top up of £2,000 per annum; and support for travel, equipment and research.

March 2019

Prof Theo Damoulas invited to give talk at IBC 2020.

The talk will be in Seoul, Korea at the International Biometric Conference in July 2020.

March 2019

Jeremias Knoblauch receives an internship offer from Amazon.

March 2019

Ollie Hamelijnck PhD fellowship Turing
Ollie Hamelijnck receives a PhD fellowship from The Alan Turing Institute.

March 2019

Dr Deniz Akylidiz defends PhD thesis
Dr Deniz Akyildiz successfully defends his PhD thesis.

March 2019

Dr Deniz Akyildiz joins the University of Warwick as a research fellow.

He has a joint appointment between the Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Statistics. Based at the Alan Turing Institute, he is working within the London Air Quality project.

February 2019

Virginia Aglietti
Virginia Aglietti, Theo Damoulas and Edwin Bonilla to publish paper in AISTATS 2019.

January 2019

Jeremias Knoblauch Facebook Fellowship
Jeremias Knoblauch has been selected as one of 21 PhD students worldwide to receive the Facebook Fellowship award.

The award consists of a stipend worth $84,000 and additionally covers two years of university tuition fees.

January 2019

Prof Thomas Gärtner
Prof Thomas Gärtner to give talk on Interactive Machine Learning on 24th Jan in Department of Computer Science

Prof Thomas Gärtner is Professor of Data Science at the University of Nottingham.

January 2019

Ollie Hamelijnck gives interview to Wired.

He discusses how live traffic data from Waze can help predict air quality in real-time in London.

December 2018

Virginia Aglietti visits The Translational Data Science Institute, University of Sydney and Data61 for an extended research stay.

October 2018

Jeremias Knoblauch receives a NIPS 2018 travel award for paper

The paper is on Doubly Robust Bayesian Inference for Non-Stationary Streaming Data using β-Divergences.

October 2018

Jeremias Knoblauch Facebook poster award
Jeremias Knoblauch receives the best poster presentation award at the 2018 Facebook - PhD London Tech Talk.

October 2018

Ollie Hamelijnck Patrick O'Hara West Midlands Growth Forum
Ollie Hamelijnck and Patrick O’Hara represent the London air quality project at the West Midlands Growth Forum

September 2018

Virginia Aglietti attended the Gaussian Process and Uncertainty Quantification Summer School

September 2018

Prof Theo Damoulas invited to talk at the Air Sensors International Conference in San Francisco.

September 2018

Jeremias Knoblaunch ICML 2018
Jeremias Knoblauch presents his work at ICML 2018

July 2018

Jeremias Knoblauch and Theo Damoulas receive a Turing Reproducibility Champions Award for their ICML paper.

May 2018