CSML

People at CSML

The members of CSML are faculty, postdocs, and students from the three departments.

Computer Science

Faculty

Dr. David Barber

Reader in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning

Homepage	http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/
Email	d.barber (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	8.06, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 4151

Dr. Mark Herbster

Lecturer; Programme director MSc in Machine Learning

Interests	My research currently focuses on the problem predicting a labeling on a graph.
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Herbster/
Email	M.Herbster (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	8.03, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 3684

Professor Massimiliano Pontil

EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow

Interests	machine learning theory and pattern recognition; function representation and approximation; numerical optimization and statistics
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Pontil/
Email	m.pontil (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 0129

Dr. Simon Prince

Senior Lecturer

Interests	The main focus of work in the Prince lab is visual recognition in unconstrained environments. In particular, recent work includes generative models for face detection and recognition.
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Prince/
Email	s.prince (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	5.06, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7387 1397

Professor John Shawe-Taylor

Head of Department

Interests	Statistical Learning Theory; from Neural Networks, to Machine Learning, to Graph Theory
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Shawe-Taylor/
Email	J.Shawe-Taylor (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 7680, +44 (0)20 7679 3675 (PA)

Dr. David Silver

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Interests	general, high-performance approaches to reinforcement learning without prior knowledge
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Home.html
Email	davidstarsilver (append @googlemail.com)
Office	7.06, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 20 7679 4413

Dr. Jun Wang

Senior Lecturer

Interests	portfolio theory and statistical modeling of information retrieval; data mining and collaborative filtering (recommendation); web economy and online advertising; user-centric information seeking
Homepage	http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jun.wang/blog
Email	jun.wang (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	6.06A, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0) 1473 66 3732

Dr Emine Yilmaz

Lecturer

Email	e.yilmaz (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk )
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 2366

Professor Li Zhaoping

Interests	Pre-attentive vision, visual attention, sensory (visual) coding, visual and olfactory object recognition and segmentation, nonlinear neural dynamics
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/Zhaoping.Li/
Email	z.li (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	8.05, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 2850

Postdocs

Dr. Steffen Grünewälder

Research Associate

Interests	Reinforcement Learning, Bandits, Stochastic Processes, PAC Bayes
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/S.Grunewalder.html
Email	S.Grunewalder (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Malet Place Engineering Building

Dr Tom Haines

Research Associate

Interests	Non-parametric Bayesian methods, graphical models, computer vision, all varieties of learning.
Email	t.haines (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 3679

Dr. Guy Lever

Interests	reinforcement learning and control; supervised learning; semi-supervised learning; kernel methods; statistical learning theory
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/G.Lever.html
Email	g.lever (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 0421

Dr. Janaina Mourao-Miranda

Research Fellow

Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/J.Mourao-Miranda.html
Email	J.Mourao-Miranda (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 0414

PhD Students

Chris Bracegirdle

PhD Student (with Dr. David Barber)

Interests	information processing and contemporary pattern analysis, applications to finance; portfolio theory, probability trading, time series modelling, machine learning, asset price forecasting
Homepage	http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/C.Bracegirdle/home.php
Email	C.Bracegirdle (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 0423

Ed Challis

PhD Student (with Dr. David Barber)

Interests	Intelligent Systems
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/E.Challis.html
Email	edward.challis.09 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	7.08, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 0373

Sarah Chisholm

PhD Student (with Professor Tom Fearn)

Interests	Networks
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/S.Chisholm.html
Email	s.chisholm.09 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	7.08, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 7192

Kamil Ciosek

Interests	Intelligent Systems
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/K.Ciosek.html
Email	kamil.ciosek.10 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	7.07, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 0368

Luis Dorard

Interests	Intelligent Systems
Homepage	http://louis.dorard.me/
Email	l.dorard (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)207 679 0373

Tristan Fletcher

Interests	Currency Forecasting using Multiple Kernel Learning with Financially Motivated Features
Homepage	http://www.tristanfletcher.co.uk/
Email	T.Fletcher (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Malet Place Engineering Building

Tom Furmston

Interests	Intelligent Systems
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/T.Furmston.html
Email	T.Furmston (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 0422

Ben Hall

Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/B.Hall.html
Email	B.Hall (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	5.08, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 0335

Mateusz Manikowski

Interests	Intelligent Systems
Homepage	http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/M.Manikowski.html
Email	m.manikowski (append @ucl.ac.uk)

Statistical Science

Faculty

Gianluca Baio

Lecturer in Medical Statistics

Interests	Bayesian statistics, health economics evaluation, hierarchical models, causal inference
Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakgba
Email	gianluca (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44(0)20 7679 1248

Dr. Alexandros Beskos

Lecturer

Interests	Monte-Carlo methods; simulation of Stochastic Differential Equations and Brownian motion; complexity of Markov chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) methods; MCMC in infinite dimensions (for problems in physics)
Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakabe/
Email	alex (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1.36, 1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44 20 7679 8352

Dr. Maria De Iorio

Reader in Statistics

Email	m.deiorio (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Phone	(0)20 3108 3245

Professor Tom Fearn

Professor of Applied Statistics, Head of Department

Interests	Applied statistics; Bayesian methodology; food science and technology; analytical chemisty
Homepage	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/tomfearn
Email	tom (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1873

Professor Mark Girolami

Chair in Statistics, Director of CSML

Interests	Statistical Methodology, Computational Statistics, Machine Learning, Cycling
Homepage	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/markgirolami
Email	girolami (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Phone	+44(0)20 7679 1861

Dr. Serge Guillas

Reader in Statistics

Interests	functional data analysis; emulation/calibration of complex computer models; time series; environmental statistics
Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaksgu/
Email	s.guillas (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1867

Dr. Christian Hennig

Senior Lecturer in Statistics

Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche/
Email	chrish (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk )
Phone	+44(0)20 7679 1698

Dr. Ioannis Kosmidis

Lecturer

Homepage	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakiko/
Email	i.kosmidis (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Room 126
Phone	+44 (0) 20 7679 1862

Dr Ioanna Manolopoulou

Lecturer

Interests	Bayesian statistics, Semi-parametric modelling, mixture modelling, state-space models, cell motility, diffusion models, phylogeography, point processes, movement ecology
Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakima/
Email	ioanna (append (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk))
Office	1.26, 1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44 20 7679 5944

Dr. James Nelson

Lecturer

Interests	applied harmonic analysis, statistical signal and image analysis, and machine learning
Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakjdb/
Email	james (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk )
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1875

Professor Sofia Olhede

Professor of Statistics, Honorary Professor of Computer Science

Interests	My fundamental research interest is modelling complex and heterogeneous phenomena observed in time or space.
Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaksc0/
Email	s.olhede (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 8321

Gareth Peters

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Statistics

Interests	Financial Risk, Computational and Empirical Finance, Statistical Methodology, Computational Statistics, Machine Learning
Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakgwp/GWP/Gareth_Peters.html
Email	gareth.peters (append (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk))
Office	1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	44(0)20 7679 1238

Dr. Ricardo Silva

Lecturer

Interests	multivariate analysis, graphical models, Bayesian inference, measurement error, relational inference and causality
Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgtrbd/
Email	ricardo.silva (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1.39, 1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44 20 7679 1879

Dr. Jinghao Xue

Lecturer

Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakjxu/
Email	jinghao (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1863

Postdocs

Dr. Simon Byrne

Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; Research Associate

Homepage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaksby/
Email	byrne (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk )
Phone	(020) 7679 1223

Dr. Ben Calderhead

Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; Research Fellow

Homepage	http://www.2020science.net/people/ben-calderhead
Email	b.calderhead (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington Place

Dr. Noushin Heydari

Interests	Stochastic Processes, Real Options Analysis, Operations Research, Time-Series Analysis, Energy Economics
Homepage	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/somayehheydari
Email	b.heydari (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington place

Dr. Matthew Higgs

Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami)

Homepage	http://matthewhiggs.me/
Email	M.Higgs (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington Place

Dr Vladimir Krylov

Postdoc (with Dr. James Nelson)

Interests	Bayesian parametric modeling, statistical hypothesis testing, Markovian methods, remote sensing and medical image processing
Homepage	https://sites.google.com/site/vlkryl/
Email	v.krylov (append (append @ucl.ac.uk))
Office	1-19 Torrington Place, Room 120
Phone	+44 (20) 3108 3227

Dr. Theodore Papamarkou

Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; Research Associate

Email	t.papamarkou (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington Place, Room 103
Phone	+44 (20) 7679 1223

Dr. Grigorios Skolidis

Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; Research Associate

Interests	Gaussian processes for regression and classification, Transfer learning, Multi-task learning, Semi-supervised learning, Composite Likelihoods
Homepage	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/grigoriosskolidis
Email	g.skolidis (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	1-19 Torrington Place, Room 103
Phone	+44 (20) 7679 1223

Dr. Vassilios Stathopoulos

Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami)

Interests	Monte-Carlo methods; Bayesian inference for deterministic and stochastic dynamical models; Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
Email	v.stathopoulos (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Room 103, 1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1223

PhD Students

Michael Epstein

PhD Student (with Professor Mark Girolami)

Homepage	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpmep
Email	michael.epstein.10 (append @ucl.ac.uk)

Marko Javorsek

PhD Student (with Professor Sofia Olhede)

Email	m.javorsek.11 (append @ucl.ac.uk)

Freddie Kalaitzis

Interests	Gaussian processes, linear-Gaussian models, dimensionality reduction
Homepage	http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/A.Kalaitzis/
Email	alkalait (append @gmail.com)
Office	Room 103, 1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	+44 (20) 7679 1223

Eleftheria Kotti

PhD Student (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; PhD Student

Email	e.kotti.12 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	116, 1-19 Torrington Place

Chien-Ju Lin

PhD Student (with Dr. Christian Hennig)

Email	chien-ju.lin.10 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Room 103, 1-19 Torrington Place

Samuel Livingstone

PhD Student (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; PhD Student

Interests	Monte Carlo methods, Information Geometry
Email	samuel.livingstone (append @ucl.ac.uk)

Gary MacIndoe

PhD Student (with Professor Mark Girolami)

Homepage	http://www.garymacindoe.co.uk/
Email	gary.macindoe.10 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Room 103, 1-19 Torrington Place

Khadijeh Taiyari

Homepage	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/phd/khadijehtaiyari
Email	khadijeh (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)

Simon Wallace

PhD Student (with Professor Sofia Olhede)

Email	simon.wallace.11 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Room 114, 1-19 Torrington Place

Ying Zhang

PhD Student (with Professor Tom Fearn)

Interests	principal component regression, partial least squares regression, near infrared spectroscopy
Email	ying_zhang (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Room 103, 1-19 Torrington Place

Gatsby Unit

Faculty

Professor Peter Dayan

Director of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit

Interests	Mathematical and computational models of neural processing; reinforcement learning; unsupervised learning
Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~dayan/
Email	dayan (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Room 407, Alexandra House
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1175

Dr. Arthur Gretton

Lecturer

Interests	My current research focus is on using kernel methods to reveal properties and relations in data.
Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~gretton/
Email	gretton (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Alexandra House
Phone	+44 20 7679 1186

Dr. Maneesh Sahani

Reader in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning

Interests	Theoretical Neuroscience, Neural Data Modelling, Machine Learning and Signal Processing
Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~maneesh/
Email	maneesh (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Alexandra House
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 5360

Dr. Yee Whye Teh

Reader

Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ywteh
Email	ywteh (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Alexandra House
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1199

Postdocs

Dr. Nicolas Heess

Postdoc (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)

Email	nicolas.heess (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Alexandra House

Dr. Andriy Mnih

Postdoc (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)

Interests	collaborative filtering; statistical language modelling; undirected graphical models; large-scale Bayesian learning methods
Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~amnih
Email	a.mnih (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Alexandra House

Dr. Dino Sejdinovic

Postdoc (with Dr. Arthur Gretton)

Interests	kernel methods, Bayesian inference, graphical models, coding and information theory
Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~dino/
Email	dino.sejdinovic (append @gmail.com)
Office	Alexandra House
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1022

Dr. Barath Sriperumbudur

Postdoc (with Dr. Arthur Gretton)

Interests	on-parametric statistics, machine learning, signal processing, applied harmonic analysis, theory and applications of reproducing kernel Hilbert and Banach spaces, empirical process theory
Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~bharath/
Email	bharath (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Alexandra House
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1195

Dr. Srini Turaga

Homepage	http://www.mit.edu/people/sturaga/
Office	Alexandra House

PhD Students

Charles Blundell

PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)

Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgtcbl/
Email	c.blundell (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	5.01a, Alexandra House

Lloyd Elliott

PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)

Email	ltelliot (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Alexandra House

Jan Gasthaus

PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh) ; CSML Webmaster

Interests	NLP, nonparametric Bayesian models, unsupervised learning
Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ucabjga
Email	j.gasthaus (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Rm 5.01, Alexandra House
Phone	+44 (0)20 7679 1184

Arthur Guez

PhD Student (with Professor Peter Dayan)

Interests	machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, neuroscience, and cognitive science
Homepage	http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~aguez/
Email	aguez (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	5.06, Alexandra House

Balaji Lakshminarayanan

PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)

Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~balaji/
Email	balaji (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)

Maria Lomeli

Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~mlomeli/
Email	mlomeli (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)

Sam Patterson

Email	spatterson (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	Alexandra House

Vinayak Rao

PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)

Interests	Bayesian nonparametrics; Markov jump processes; Point processes
Homepage	http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~vrao/
Email	vrao (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office	5.01a, Alexandra House

Other

Faculty

Dr Karim Anaya-Izquierdo

Lecturer in Medical Statistics

Interests	Foundations of Statistics; Information Geometry; Mixture Models; Epidemiology
Homepage	http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/anaya-izquierdo.karim
Email	karim.anaya (append @lshtm.ac.uk )
Phone	+44 (0)20 76127826

Dr. Chris Barnes

Lecturer in Systems Biology, Department of Cell and Environmental Biology, UCL

Interests	Modelling mutational processes in the genome; Reverse engineering of signalling systems; Design of synthetic biological systems for therapeutic applications
Homepage	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cdb/research/barnes/
Email	christopher.barnes (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Phone	020 7679 7712

Professor Philip Dawid

Professor of Statistics, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Interests	Foundations of Statistics; Optimal Experimental Design; Information Geometry; Decision Geometry; Probabilistic Expert Systems; Symmetry Modelling; Causal Inference
Homepage	http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~apd/
Email	apd (append @statslab.cam.ac.uk)
Office	Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, UK
Phone	+44 (0)1223 766535

Professor Kate Jones

Chair of Ecology and Biodiversity

Homepage	https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal/index?upi=KEJON62
Email	kate.e.jones (append @ucl.ac.uk)

PhD Students

Nabanita Basu

MRes student: Security and Crime Sciences Department

Interests	3D reconstruction of Crime Science based on Blood Pattern Analysis using Machine Learning concepts. I am also interested in working on Image processing, analysis of different classifier models
Email	nabanita.basu.12 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Phone	+44(0)7448291714

Alexander Gibberd

PhD Student (with Dr. James Nelson) ; PhD student

Interests	Statistical Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Anomaly/Change-point Detection, Networks, Crime Science
Homepage	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/secret/current_students/2012_cohort/2012-cohort-profiles/alex-gibberd
Email	alexander.gibberd.12 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Phone	+44 (0)7960996378

Miss Kim Mroz

MRes/PhD student with CoMPLEX

Email	kim.mroz.11 (append @ucl.ac.uk)

Staff

Mr James Revell

CSML Administrator

Email	j.revell (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office	120 1st Floor 1-19 Torrington Place
Phone	0207 679 1872 (x41872)