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Professor Neil Lawrence
NewsComputer ScienceA blog post containing personal thoughts on machine learning and Computer Science degrees. MLSS 2012I'll be giving three lectures at the Machine Learning Summer School in La Palma. The details of the lectures are available here. AISTATS 2012Along with Mark Girolami, I'm one of the programme chairs for AISTATS 2012. Bernhard Schölkopf is the general chair and Fernando Pérez-Cruz is handling local arrangements. If you are interested in integrating MATLAB or Octave code into LaTeX, then you might be interested in MATweave. This is a solution for keeping the code you used to create your figures in your LaTeX file. We've just appointed two post-doctoral research positions associated with our new group in Sheffield. From 1st August 2010 I will be taking up a new position as a collaborative Chair between the departments of Neuroscience and Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. I will be based in the Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience. I will be joined there by my colleague Magnus Rattray. We will co-lead research groups in machine learning and computational biology. WelcomeIn Computer Science I co-lead the Machine Learning Research Group. My research interests are in probabilistic models. TeachingIn Autumn 2011 with Trevor Cohn I taught the Machine Learning and Adaptive Intelligence (COM6509 and COM4509) module and the Introduction to Bioengineering Module (FCE101). See also my Lecture Notes (campus only) page for more details. BookAn edited volume on "Learning and Inference in Computational Systems Biology" is out with MIT Press. I edited it with Mark Girolami, Magnus Rattray and Guido Sanguinetti. on Learning in Computational and Systems Biology. It originally emerged from our PASCAL Thematic Programme and the follow on workshops. The MIT Press site is here. AISTATS 2010 in Europe!For the first time the AISTATS conference was held in Europe. It took place in Sardinia from May 13th-15th 2010. Further European AISTATS are planned for 2012, 2014 etc.. I was General Chair for the meeting and Yee Whye Teh and Mike Titterington were the Program Chairs. Interspeech 2009 TutorialFor details of an Interspeech tutorial on probabilistic dimensionality reduction see here. PhD ProjectsIf you are interested in doing a PhD in Machine Learning you can apply to our research group. I have a number of PhD projects available:
BookI had the pleasure of co-editing a volume on dataset shift with Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Masashi Sugiyama and Anton Schwaighofer. You can find more details on it here. ICML 2008 TutorialFor details of an ICML tutorial on probabilistic dimensionality reduction see here. Thematic ProgrammesWith Marc Dymetman I organised the first Thematic Programme for the European FP7 Network of Excellence PASCAL II on Leveraging Complex Prior Knowledge for Learning. With Mark Girolami, Magnus Rattray and Guido Sanguinetti I co-organised a thematic programme for the European FP6 Network of Excellence PASCAL on Learning in Computational and Systems Biology. WorkshopsWith Mauricio Alvarez I organized a Statistics and Machine Learning Interface Meeting. With Joaquin Quiñonero Candela I organised the Bayesian Research Kitchen. I helped out Cédric Archambeau, Ian Roulstone, John Shawe-Taylor and Andrew Stuart in organising Approximate Inference in Stochastic Processes and Dynamical Systems. I helped out Tony Dodd and Rob Harrison in organising a 'Winter School' in Data Modelling. I helped out Matthias Seeger, David Barber and Onno Zoeter in organising a NIPS workshop on "Approximate Bayesian Inference in Continuous/Hybrid Systems". The Parameter Estimation in Systems Biology PASCAL workshop was co-organised by myself and Magnus Rattray. It was held in Manchester on the 28-29th March 2007. I helped out Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Masashi Sugiyama and Anton Schwaighofer in organising a NIPS workshop on "Learning when Test and Training Inputs Have Different Distributions". See the associated book from MIT Press. I co-organised the Gaussian Processes in Practice workshop with Joaquin Quiñonero Candela and Anton Schwaighofer. EditingI started the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series and I'm currently the series editor. I'm an associate editor for IEEE TPAMI. I'm an associate editor for JMLR. Research FellowsMichalis Titsias (with Magnus Rattray, TIGRE Project)James Hensman (with Magnus Rattray) Jaakko Peltonen (with Magnus Rattray) PhD Students
Alfredo Kalaitzis
Former Post-docs
Jaako Peltonen (with Magnus Rattray. Synergy Project) Former PhD StudentsMauricio
Álvarez (viva 4/5/11: now Associate Professor at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia, thesis) Computational Health InformaticsComputational Health Informatics. Topologician |
