People at CSML

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

Computer Science

Faculty

Dr. David Barber

no picture Reader in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
Homepagehttp://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/
Emaild.barber (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office8.06, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 4151

Dr. Mark Herbster

no picture Lecturer; Programme director MSc in Machine Learning
InterestsMy research currently focuses on the problem predicting a labeling a graph.
Homepage http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Herbster/
EmailM.Herbster (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office8.03, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 3684

Professor Massimiliano Pontil

no picture EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
Interestsmachine learning theory and pattern recognition; function representation and approximation; numerical optimization and statistics
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Pontil/
Emailm.pontil (append @ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeMalet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 0129

Dr. Simon Prince

no picture Senior Lecturer
InterestsThe 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.
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Prince/
Emails.prince (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office5.06, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7387 1397

Professor John Shawe-Taylor

no picture Head of Department
InterestsStatistical Learning Theory; from Neural Networks, to Machine Learning, to Graph Theory
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Shawe-Taylor/
EmailJ.Shawe-Taylor (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeMalet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 7680, +44 (0)20 7679 3675 (PA)

Dr. David Silver

no picture Royal Society University Research Fellow
Interestsgeneral, high-performance approaches to reinforcement learning without prior knowledge
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Home.html
Emaildavidstarsilver (append @googlemail.com)
Office7.06, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 20 7679 4413

Dr. Jun Wang

no picture Senior Lecturer
Interestsportfolio theory and statistical modeling of information retrieval; data mining and collaborative filtering (recommendation); web economy and online advertising; user-centric information seeking
Homepagehttp://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jun.wang/blog
Emailjun.wang (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office6.06A, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0) 1473 66 3732

Professor Li Zhaoping

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InterestsPre-attentive vision, visual attention, sensory (visual) coding, visual and olfactory object recognition and segmentation, nonlinear neural dynamics
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/Zhaoping.Li/
Emailz.li (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office8.05, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 2850

Postdocs

Dr. Steffen Grünewälder

no picture Research Associate
InterestsReinforcement Learning, Bandits, Stochastic Processes, PAC Bayes
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/S.Grunewalder.html
EmailS.Grunewalder (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeMalet Place Engineering Building

Dr. Guy Lever

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Interestsreinforcement learning and control; supervised learning; semi-supervised learning; kernel methods; statistical learning theory
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/G.Lever.html
Emailg.lever (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 0421

Dr. Janaina Mourao-Miranda

no picture Research Fellow
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/J.Mourao-Miranda.html
EmailJ.Mourao-Miranda (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 0414

PhD Students

Chris Bracegirdle

no picture PhD Student (with Dr. David Barber)
Interestsinformation processing and contemporary pattern analysis, applications to finance; portfolio theory, probability trading, time series modelling, machine learning, asset price forecasting
Homepagehttp://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/C.Bracegirdle/home.php
EmailC.Bracegirdle (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 0423

Ed Challis

no picture PhD Student (with Dr. David Barber)
InterestsIntelligent Systems
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/E.Challis.html
Emailedward.challis.09 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office7.08, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 0373

Sarah Chisholm

no picture PhD Student (with Professor Tom Fearn)
InterestsNetworks
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/S.Chisholm.html
Emails.chisholm.09 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office7.08, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 7192

Kamil Ciosek

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InterestsIntelligent Systems
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/K.Ciosek.html
Emailkamil.ciosek.10 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office7.07, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 0368

Luis Dorard

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InterestsIntelligent Systems
Homepagehttp://louis.dorard.me/
Emaill.dorard (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)207 679 0373

Tristan Fletcher

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InterestsCurrency Forecasting using Multiple Kernel Learning with Financially Motivated Features
Homepagehttp://www.tristanfletcher.co.uk/
EmailT.Fletcher (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeMalet Place Engineering Building

Tom Furmston

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InterestsIntelligent Systems
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/T.Furmston.html
EmailT.Furmston (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office8.11, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 0422

Ben Hall

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Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/B.Hall.html
EmailB.Hall (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office5.08, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 0335

Mateusz Manikowski

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InterestsIntelligent Systems
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/M.Manikowski.html
Emailm.manikowski (append @ucl.ac.uk)

Staff

Victoria Nicholl

no picture CSML Administrator
Homepagehttp://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/V.Nicholl.html
EmailV.Nicholl (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office5.22, Malet Place Engineering Building
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 0481

Statistical Science

Faculty

Dr. Alexandros Beskos

no picture Lecturer
InterestsMonte-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)
Homepagehttp://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakabe/
Emailalex (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Office1.36, 1-19 Torrington Place
Phone+44 20 7679 8352

Dr. Maria De Iorio

no picture Reader in Statistics
Emailm.deiorio (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Phone(0)20 3108 3245

Professor Tom Fearn

no picture Professor of Applied Statistics, Head of Department
InterestsApplied statistics; Bayesian methodology; food science and technology; analytical chemisty
Homepagehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/tomfearn
Emailtom (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington Place
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1873

Professor Mark Girolami

no picture Chair in Statistics, Director of CSML
InterestsStatistical Methodology, Computational Statistics, Machine Learning, Cycling
Homepagehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/markgirolami
Emailgirolami (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Phone+44(0)20 7679 1861

Dr. Serge Guillas

no picture Reader in Statistics
Interestsfunctional data analysis; emulation/calibration of complex computer models; time series; environmental statistics
Homepagehttp://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaksgu/
Emails.guillas (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington Place
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1867

Dr. Christian Hennig

no picture Senior Lecturer in Statistics
Homepagehttp://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche/
Emailchrish (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk )
Phone+44(0)20 7679 1698

Dr. Ioannis Kosmidis

no picture Lecturer
Homepagehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakiko/
Emaili.kosmidis (append @ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeRoom 126
Phone+44 (0) 20 7679 1862

Dr. James Nelson

no picture Lecturer
Interestsapplied harmonic analysis, statistical signal and image analysis, and machine learning
Homepagehttp://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakjdb/
Emailjames (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk )
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1875

Professor Sofia Olhede

no picture Professor of Statistics, Honorary Professor of Computer Science
InterestsMy fundamental research interest is modelling complex and heterogeneous phenomena observed in time or space.
Homepagehttp://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaksc0/
Emails.olhede (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington Place
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 8321

Dr. Ricardo Silva

no picture Lecturer
Interestsmultivariate analysis, graphical models, Bayesian inference, measurement error, relational inference and causality
Homepagehttp://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgtrbd/
Emailricardo.silva (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office1.39, 1-19 Torrington Place
Phone+44 20 7679 1879

Dr. Jinghao Xue

no picture Lecturer
Homepagehttp://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakjxu/
Emailjinghao (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington Place
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1863

Postdocs

Dr. Simon Byrne

no picture Research Associate
Homepagehttp://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaksby/
Emailbyrne (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk )
Phone(020) 7679 1223

Dr. Ben Calderhead

no picture Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; Research Fellow
Homepagehttp://www.2020science.net/people/ben-calderhead
Emailb.calderhead (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington Place

Dr. Julien Cornebise

no picture Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; Postdoctoral Research Associate
InterestsRiemannian Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Sequential Monte Carlo; Adaptive Monte-Carlo methods
Homepagehttp://www.cornebise.com/julien/
Emailjulien (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington Place
Phone+44 (20) 7679 1223

Dr. Noushin Heydari

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InterestsStochastic Processes, Real Options Analysis, Operations Research, Time-Series Analysis, Energy Economics
Homepagehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/somayehheydari
Emailb.heydari (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington place

Dr. Matthew Higgs

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Homepagehttp://matthewhiggs.me/
EmailM.Higgs (append @cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington Place

Dr. Theodore Papamarkou

no picture Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; Research Associate
Emailt.papamarkou (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington Place, Room 103
Phone+44 (20) 7679 1223

Dr. Grigorios Skolidis

no picture Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami) ; Research Associate
InterestsGaussian processes for regression and classification, Transfer learning, Multi-task learning, Semi-supervised learning, Composite Likelihoods
Homepagehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/grigoriosskolidis
Emailg.skolidis (append @ucl.ac.uk)
Office1-19 Torrington Place, Room 103
Phone+44 (20) 7679 1223

Dr. Vassilios Stathopoulos

no picture Postdoc (with Professor Mark Girolami)
Interests Monte-Carlo methods; Bayesian inference for deterministic and stochastic dynamical models; Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
Emailv.stathopoulos (append @ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeRoom 103, 1-19 Torrington Place
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1223

PhD Students

Michael Epstein

no picture PhD Student (with Professor Mark Girolami)
Homepagehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpmep
Emailmichael.epstein.10 (append @ucl.ac.uk)

Marko Javorsek

no picture PhD Student (with Professor Sofia Olhede)
Emailm.javorsek.11 (append @ucl.ac.uk)

Chien-Ju Lin

no picture PhD Student (with Dr. Christian Hennig)
Emailchien-ju.lin.10 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeRoom 103, 1-19 Torrington Place

Gary MacIndoe

no picture PhD Student (with Professor Mark Girolami)
Homepagehttp://www.garymacindoe.co.uk/
Emailgary.macindoe.10 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeRoom 103, 1-19 Torrington Place

Khadijeh Taiyari

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Homepagehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/phd/khadijehtaiyari
Emailkhadijeh (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)

Simon Wallace

no picture PhD Student (with Professor Sofia Olhede)
Emailsimon.wallace.11 (append @ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeRoom 114, 1-19 Torrington Place

Ying Zhang

no picture PhD Student (with Professor Tom Fearn)
Interestsprincipal component regression, partial least squares regression, near infrared spectroscopy
Emailying_zhang (append @stats.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeRoom 103, 1-19 Torrington Place

Gatsby Unit

Faculty

Professor Peter Dayan

no picture Director of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
InterestsMathematical and computational models of neural processing; reinforcement learning; unsupervised learning
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~dayan/
Emaildayan (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeRoom 407, Alexandra House
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1175

Dr. Arthur Gretton

no picture Lecturer
InterestsMy current research focus is on using kernel methods to reveal properties and relations in data.
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~gretton/
Emailgretton (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeAlexandra House
Phone+44 20 7679 1186

Dr. Maneesh Sahani

no picture Reader in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning
InterestsTheoretical Neuroscience, Neural Data Modelling, Machine Learning and Signal Processing
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~maneesh/
Emailmaneesh (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeAlexandra House
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 5360

Dr. Yee Whye Teh

no picture Reader
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ywteh
Emailywteh (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeAlexandra House
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1199

Postdocs

Dr. Nicolas Heess

no picture Postdoc (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)
Emailnicolas.heess (append @ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeAlexandra House

Dr. Andriy Mnih

no picture Postdoc (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)
Interestscollaborative filtering; statistical language modelling; undirected graphical models; large-scale Bayesian learning methods
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~amnih
Emaila.mnih (append @ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeAlexandra House

Dr. Dino Sejdinovic

no picture Postdoc (with Dr. Arthur Gretton)
Interestskernel methods, Bayesian inference, graphical models, coding and information theory
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~dino/
Emaildino.sejdinovic (append @gmail.com)
OfficeAlexandra House
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1022

Dr. Barath Sriperumbudur

no picture Postdoc (with Dr. Arthur Gretton)
Interestson-parametric statistics, machine learning, signal processing, applied harmonic analysis, theory and applications of reproducing kernel Hilbert and Banach spaces, empirical process theory
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~bharath/
Emailbharath (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeAlexandra House
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1195

PhD Students

Charles Blundell

no picture PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgtcbl/
Emailc.blundell (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office5.01a, Alexandra House

Lloyd Elliott

no picture PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)
Emailltelliot (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeAlexandra House

Jan Gasthaus

no picture PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh) ; CSML Webmaster
InterestsNLP, nonparametric Bayesian models, unsupervised learning
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ucabjga
Emailj.gasthaus (append @ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeRm 5.01, Alexandra House
Phone+44 (0)20 7679 1184

Arthur Guez

no picture PhD Student (with Professor Peter Dayan)
Interestsmachine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, neuroscience, and cognitive science
Homepagehttp://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~aguez/
Emailaguez (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office5.06, Alexandra House

Balaji Lakshminarayanan

no picture PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~balaji/
Emailbalaji (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)

Maria Lomeli

no picture PhD Student (with Dr. Arthur Gretton)
Emailmlomeli (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)

Sam Patterson

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Emailspatterson (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
OfficeAlexandra House

Vinayak Rao

no picture PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)
InterestsBayesian nonparametrics; Markov jump processes; Point processes
Homepagehttp://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~vrao/
Emailvrao (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk)
Office5.01a, Alexandra House

Other

Faculty

Professor Philip Dawid

no picture Professor of Statistics, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
InterestsFoundations of Statistics; Optimal Experimental Design; Information Geometry; Decision Geometry; Probabilistic Expert Systems; Symmetry Modelling; Causal Inference
Homepagehttp://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~apd/
Emailapd (append @statslab.cam.ac.uk)
OfficeWilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, UK
Phone+44 (0)1223 766535