Learn more about The Naked Scientists and their programme on their webpage.

Information about Christian and his research can be found on his webpage.

The department press release with some excerpts from the interview here.

The original interview can be found here.

You can listen to the interview as an mp3 here.

• D Duvenaud, JR Lloyd, R Grosse, JB Tenenbaum, and Z Ghahramani.  Structure Discovery in Nonparametric Regression through Compositional Kernel Search.  [arXiv]
• E Gilboa, Y Saatci, and JP Cunningham.  Scaling multidimensional Gaussian Processes using projected additive approximations.  [arXiv]
• C Heaukulani, and Z Ghahramani.  Dynamic Probabilistic Models for Latent Feature Propagation in Social Networks.  [pdf]
• B Lakshminarayanan, DM Roy, YW Teh.  Top-down particle filtering for Bayesian decision trees.  [arXiv]
• D Lopez-Paz, JM Hernandez-Lobato, and Z Ghahramani.  Gaussian process vine copulas for multivariate dependence.  [pdf]
• C Reed and Z Ghahramani.  Scaling the Indian Buffet Process via Submodular Maximization.  [arXiv]
• AG Wilson and RP Adams.  Gaussian Process Covariance Kernels for Pattern Discovery and Extrapolation.  [arXiv]
• Y Wu, JM Hernandez-Lobato, and Z Ghahramani.  Dynamic Covariance Models for Multivariate Financial Time Series.

Abstracts and additional material can be found on our publications page, and links to author webpages can be found on our group members page.

Richard Turner’s website: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~turner/

“Most theories of motor cortex have assumed that neural activity represents movement parameters. This view derives from what is known about primary visual cortex, where neural activity represents patterns of light. Yet it is unclear how well the analogy between motor and visual cortex holds. Single-neuron responses in motor cortex are complex, and there is marked disagreement regarding which movement parameters are represented. A better analogy might be with other motor systems, where a common principle is rhythmic neural activity. Here we find that motor cortex responses during reaching contain a brief but strong oscillatory component, something quite unexpected for a non-periodic behaviour. Oscillation amplitude and phase followed naturally from the preparatory state, suggesting a mechanistic role for preparatory neural activity. These results demonstrate an unexpected yet surprisingly simple structure in the population response. This underlying structure explains many of the confusing features of individual neural responses.”

The article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11129.html

Press articles: Department; The Atlantic.

Prof. John Cunningham’s website at Washington University in St. Louis: http://cunningham.wustl.edu/

“We introduced the Google Fellowship programme in 2009 in the United States to broaden our support of university research. Universities continue to be the source of some of the most innovative research in computer science, and in particular it is the students that they foster who are the future of our field. In 2010, we extended the fellowship programme to Universities in Europe.”

Press release: http://research.google.com/university/relations/fellowship_recipients.html

“This competition will bring together the state-of-the-art techniques for energy forecasting, serve as the bridge to connect academic research and industry practice, promote analytics in power engineering education, and prepare the industry to overcome forecasting challenges in the smart grid world.”

Competition website and leaderboard: http://www.kaggle.com/c/global-energy-forecasting-competition-2012-load-forecasting

James Lloyd’s website: http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/lloyd/