Dr. Jeremias Knoblauch was awarded the 2023 Savage Award by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) for his PhD thesis
Dr. Jeremias Knoblauch (PhD student from 2017 to 2022) was awarded the 2023 Savage Award by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) for his work, “Optimization-centric Generalizations of Bayesian Inference.” This award recognizes significant contributions in the field of Bayesian statistics.
June 2023
Prof. Theo Damoulas gave a talk at the Large Agent Collider conference at Oxford!
May 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
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
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 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 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 is offered an internship at Microsoft.
January 2020
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 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'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 presents Multi-resolution Multi-task Gaussian Processes at NeurIPS 2019
December 2019
Virginia Aglietti presents Structured Variational Inference in Continuous Cox Process Models at NeurIPS 2019
December 2019
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'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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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, Theo Damoulas and Edwin Bonilla to publish paper in AISTATS 2019.
January 2019
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 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 receives the best poster presentation award at the 2018 Facebook - PhD London Tech Talk.
October 2018
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 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