Applications are open for a University Lectureship in Computer Vision and Machine Learning (roughly equivalent to tenure-track US Assistant Professor Position) at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.  The deadline for applications is March 23rd.  Details on how to apply and on the position are at: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/-13342/ http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/admin/jobsinfo/ULComputerVision.pdf  

We are seeking up to three highly creative and motivated Postdoctoral Research Associates to join the Machine Learning Group in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, working with Professor Zoubin Ghahramani.  The group is one of the world’s leading centres for Bayesian statistical Machine Learning and successful candidates will be expected to have [...]

Dan Roy‘s PhD dissertation, “Computability, inference and modeling in probabilistic programming”, has been selected as a winner of a MIT/EECS Sprowls Award, recognizing it as one of the best dissertations in Computer Science at MIT in 2011.

Simon Lacoste-Julien has been awarded a prestigious Research in Paris grant, and will take up further post-doctoral studies with Francis Bach in the SIERRA project team located in the joint INRIA/CNRS/Ecole Normale Superieure computer science laboratory, starting on September 1st 2011.

Andrew Gordon Wilson has won the Best Student Paper Award at UAI 2011 for his work on Generalised Wishart Processes.  The Engineering Department’s news story can be found here.

Dan Roy awarded Newton International Fellowship, as well as a Fellowship at Emmanuel College.