People at CSML
The members of CSML are faculty, postdocs, and students from the three departments.
Reader in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
Lecturer; Programme director MSc in Machine Learning
| Interests | My research currently focuses on the problem predicting a labeling 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 |
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 |
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 |
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) |
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 |
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 |
| 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 |
Research Associate
| 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 |
Research Fellow
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
CSML Administrator
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 |
Reader in Statistics
| Email | m.deiorio (append @ucl.ac.uk) |
| Phone | (0)20 3108 3245 |
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 |
Chair in Statistics, Director of CSML
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 |
Senior Lecturer in Statistics
Lecturer
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 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 |
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 |
Lecturer
PhD Student (with Dr. Christian Hennig)
| Email | chien-ju.lin.10 (append @ucl.ac.uk) |
| Office | Room 103, 1-19 Torrington Place |
PhD Student (with Professor Sofia Olhede)
| Email | simon.wallace.11 (append @ucl.ac.uk) |
| Office | Room 114, 1-19 Torrington Place |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Reader
Postdoc (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)
| Email | nicolas.heess (append @ucl.ac.uk) |
| Office | Alexandra House |
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 |
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 |
PhD Student (with Dr. Yee Whye Teh)
| Email | ltelliot (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk) |
| Office | Alexandra House |
| Email | spatterson (append @gatsby.ucl.ac.uk) |
| Office | Alexandra House |
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 |