Department of Engineering Computational and Biological Learning Lab

Carl Edward Rasmussen

	Professor of Machine Learning Department of Engineering
	Chief Scientist and Chairman Secondmind
	Fellow ELLIS Society
	Fellow The Alan Turing Institute
	Fellow Darwin College

I'm a professor in the Machine Learning Group and head of the Computational and Biological Learning Lab in the Division of Information Engineering at the Department of Engineering in Cambridge. I work on machine learning and on climate change. I don't travel professionally by air because it destroys the habitability of earth.

Research

I'm interested in the theory and practice of understanding and building systems that learn and make decisions. Humans have an exceptional ability to learn from experience, which sets them apart from current artificial intelligent (AI) systems. To understand human learning and design better AI we need principled approaches to learning and decision making based on Bayesian inference in machine learning. My interests span: probabilistic inference, reinforcement learning, approximate inference (variational and MCMC), decision making, non-parametric modeling, stochastic processes and efficient learning.

My first mentor was David Willshaw; I completed my MSc with Lars Kai Hansen and PhD with Geoff Hinton.

Publications

Gaussian Processes Gaussian processes (GPs) are a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in flexible non-parametric models. GPs have found numerous applications in regression, classification, unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning. Great advances have been made recently in sparse approximations and approximate inference. My book Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning, MIT Press 2006, with Chris Williams is freely available online. I also maintain the gpml matlab/octave toolbox with Hannes Nickisch, as well as the pretty outdated Gaussian Process website.

Random pointers

Teaching

Students and Postdocs

Contact Information

Department of Engineering
Trumpington Street
Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK
voice +44 (0) 1223 748 513
fax +44 (0) 1223 332 662
email
PGP public key

My office is on the fourth floor of the Baker Building room number BE4-42.