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Papers with MLG authors to appear at ICML and AABI 2024

Nine papers with MLG authors will appear at ICML 2024 in Vienna, Austria, and many papers will also be presented at AABI and ICML workshops!

9 papers with MLG authors to appear at ICLR 2024

10 papers with MLG authors will appear at ICLR 2024 in Vienna, Austria.

Google Summer of Code and Turing.jl

We’re happy to announce that Turing.jl, a probabilistic programming language in Julia which started out here in CBL, is also participating in this year’s Google Summer of…

9 papers with MLG authors to appear at ICLR 2020 and AISTATS 2020

6 papers with MLG authors will appear at ICLR 2020 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

10 papers with MLG authors to appear at NeurIPS 2019

10 papers with MLG authors will appear at NeurIPS 2019 in Vancouver, Canada.

12 papers with MLG authors appeared at ICML 2019

12 papers with MLG authors appeared at ICML 2019 in Long Beach, CA, USA.

Best Paper Award at ICML 2019

Congratulations to our PhD student David R. Burt, Prof. Carl E. Rasmussen and our PhD alumnus Mark van der Wilk (now at PROWLER.io) for receiving a Best Paper Award at ICML…

Postdoctoral and Senior Postdoctoral Positions in Machine Learning

DEADLINE: 6 March 2015

13 papers with MLG authors to appear at ICML 2018

13 papers with MLG authors will appear at ICML 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Seventeen Recent Papers from MLG

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING REPRESENTATIONS, Vancouver. 2018

Dr Adrian Weller appointed as Programme Director for Artificial Intelligence at The Alan Turing Institute

MLG member Adrian Weller has been appointed as the Programme Director for Artificial Intelligence at The Alan Turing Institute. More details can be found here.

Twelve papers with MLG authors to appear at NIPS 2017

“Convolutional Gaussian Processes.”, Mark van der Wilk, Carl Edward Rasmussen and James Hensman – CHOSEN FOR AN ORAL PRESENTATION.

Prize winning papers from MLG at ICML 2017

Several papers from MLG have won prizes at ICML 2017. Congratulations to everyone involved!

Two Postdoctoral Research Positions Available in the Machine Learning Group

We are seeking two highly creative and motivated Research Assistants/Associates to join the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge. The positions are for up…

Ten papers with MLG authors to appear at ICML 2017

Ten papers including authors from the Cambridge Machine Learning Group will appear at the International Conference for Machine Learning (ICML) 2017. They are:

Alessandro Ialongo awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

MLG graduate student Alessandro Ialongo has been selected for the 2017 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. He was awarded $40,000 for his innovation proposal titled “Learning…

Three recent papers from MLG

We wish to highlight three recent papers led by members from the group. The text can be found on the authors’ personal pages.

Adrian Weller elected as David MacKay Newton Research Fellow

Prof Sir David MacKay was an amazing man, who until recently was part of our group. David was a terrific researcher and teacher in machine learning, and a passionate…

Postdoc position to study Trust and Transparency aspects of Artificial Intelligence

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI; http://lcfi.ac.uk/) and the Machine Learning Group (http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk ) at the University of Cambridge…

Shane Gu involved with Google Shared Experience robotics project

Shane Gu was involved with a Google shared experience robotics project this summer. The project was written up on Google’s research blog and in the MIT technology review.…

Zoubin Ghahramani and Adrian Weller involved with the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, which was launched this week.

Zoubin Ghahramani and Adrian Weller are involved with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence which was launched this week.

Zoubin Ghahramani discusses “Do we need Artificial Intelligence” with the BBC world service

Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani has spoken to the BBC world service Forum radio show on the question: “Do we need artificial intelligence?”. The full show can be found here.

A symposium and workshops at NIPS with MLG organisers.

MLG members are involved with the organisation of one symposium and three workshops at NIPS. These are:

Five new papers from the group to appear at NIPS 2016 in Barcelona

Five new papers from the group are to appear at the 2016 conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016), to be held in December in Barcelona…

Alex Matthews awarded by Google for his work on TensorFlow

Alex Matthews has been given a software award from the Google Open Source Programs Office for his work on TensorFlow. The award is for “…people outside of Google that they…

Ten papers from the group to appear at ICML 2016

Ten papers involving authors from MLG will appear at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2016. They are:

Cambridge MLG heavily involved with the new Alan Turing Institute

Cambridge Machine Learning Group has a strong involvement with the new Alan Turing Institute. The ATI is the national institute for research in Data Science and is…

New faculty member Dr. José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

We are delighted to announce that Dr. José Miguel Hernández-Lobato will join Cambridge MLG as a University Lecturer in Machine Learning later this year. Miguel joins us from…

Yarin Gal awarded Research Fellowship at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge

Well done to Yarin Gal who has been awarded the Michael and Morven Heller Research Fellowship at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge.

Microsoft Research and Cambridge MLG joint workshop, March 18th

Microsoft Research, Cambridge and the University of Cambridge Machine Learning Group have organized a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence workshop on Friday March…

Three postdoc positions in machine learning at the University of Cambridge

We are seeking up to three highly creative and motivated Postdoctoral Research Assistants/Associates to join the Machine Learning Group in the Department of Engineering…

James Lloyd and Alex Davies help create the world’s first computer-generated musical

MLG alumni Dr James Robert Lloyd and Dr Alex Davies have helped create the world’s first musical largely created by computer, in work which began whilst they were in…

Five papers from the group to appear at AISTATS 2016

Five new papers from the group are to appear at the 2016 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) to be held in May in Cadiz, Spain.

Faculty Position in Machine Learning

The University of Cambridge is inviting applications for a faculty position in the Machine Learning group. The position also offers the opportunity to participate in the…

Knighthood for David MacKay

Congratulations to Professor David MacKay who has been awarded a Knighthood in the 2016 New Years honours list. More information on the story can be found here.

Zoubin Ghahramani appointed Deputy Director of the new Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

The University of Cambridge has announced a new research centre thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust. Zoubin Ghahramani has been appointed as Deputy…

Review article published in Nature on Probabilistic machine learning and AI

Zoubin Ghahramani has published a review article in Nature on “Probabilistic machine learning and artificial intelligence” as part of a special issue on Machine…

Call for applications Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellowships in Machine Learning

We are pleased to announce the Cambridge-Tübingen PhD fellowships between the University of Cambridge Machine Learning Group and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent…

James Lloyd leads team to victory in AutoML competition

James Lloyd has led team backstreet.bayes to a 1st place performance in the second round of the AutoML challenge. The challenge was to design machine learning methods…

Seven new papers from the group to appear at NIPS 2015 in Montreal

Seven new papers from the group are to appear at the 2015 conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015), to be held in December in Montreal…

Professor Zoubin Ghahramani elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Congratulations to Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. His nomination reads:

Thang D. Bui Receives Google European Doctoral Fellowship

PhD student Thang D. Bui wins prestigious Google Europe Doctoral Fellowship in Speech Technology. This year 15 fellowships were awarded to new doctoral students across…

Dr Richard Turner Receives CUSU Teaching Award

Congratulations to Richard on winning the Cambridge University Students’ Union Student-Led Teaching Award. This is an award across the entirety of Cambridge with 265…

Yarin Gal and Mark van der Wilk Receive Qualcomm Fellowships

Yarin and Mark were awarded a £10,000 prize each by Qualcomm for their innovation proposals titled “Scalable Probabilistic Representation Learning” (Yarin), and “Variational…

BBC radio interviews on Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Prof Zoubin Ghahramani speaks on the BBC World Service’s The Forum programme. This 45 minute programme explores the topic of Deep Learning, interviewing Zoubin along with…

Alex Davies Receives G-Research Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis

Alex was awarded a £10,000 prize by G-Research for an outstanding PhD with applications to mathematical finance. His thesis, titled “Effective Implementation of Gaussian…

Photo competition entries from the group featured in The Telegraph

Two entries from the group into the 2014 Engineering Department Photo Competition are featured in The Telegraph.

Cambridge-Tuebingen PhD Fellowship Deadline Approaching

The deadline for the Cambridge-Tuebingen PhD Fellowships is approaching! The deadline is on the 2nd December 2014, and interviews will take place from 7th-8th January 2015.

New MPhil programme in Machine Learning, Speech, and Language Technologies

A new MPhil programme has been created jointly by the Machine Learning Group and the Speech Group at the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge.

David Knowles awarded ISBA@NIPS Award for best invited Bayesian paper

Congratulations to David Knowles for being awarded the ISBA@NIPS travel award for the best invited Bayesian paper.

David Knowles wins ISBA Lindley Prize

Congratulations to David Knowles for winning this year’s Lindley Prize for his paper “Fixed-Form Variational Posterior Approximation through Stochastic Linear Regression”.…

Sara Wade thesis selected as finalist for ISBA Savage Award

Sara Wade’s PhD Thesis “Bayesian nonparametric regression through mixture models” has been selected as a finalist for the Savage Award in the Theory & Methods category by…

Ten new papers from the group to appear at NIPS 2014 in Montreal

Ten new papers from the group are to appear at the 2014 conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014), to be held in December in Montreal…

Facebook donates $200,000 to the Cambridge-Tuebingen PhD in Machine Learning

We are delighted to announce that Facebook has donated $200,000 to support our unique Cambridge-Tuebingen PhD in Machine Learning. The Cambridge-Tuebingen PhD Programme is a…

The Automatic Statistician is Online

A first version of the Automatic Statistician is online at http://www.automaticstatistician.com. The website describes the project, links to example automatic data analyses…

Carl Rasmussen promoted to Professor

Congratulations to Carl Rasmussen on his promotion to the senior academic post of Professor in the Department of Engineering!

Ten new papers from the group to appear at ICML 2014 in Beijing

Ten new papers from the group are to appear in the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2014), to be held in Beijing, China this June. The list of papers…

Amar Shah wins Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

Congratulations to Amar Shah for winning a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship! The fellowship includes an amount of £10,000 to support the researcher for the academic year.

Google awards $750,000 for “The Automatic Statistician”

The Automatic Statistician, a project led by Zoubin Ghahramani, has won a $750,000 Google Focused Research Award. This Award consists of a no-strings attached donation to…

Andrew Gordon Wilson wins £10,000 prize for his PhD dissertation on fast automatic pattern discovery

Congratulations to Andrew Gordon Wilson for winning the £10,000 G-Research prize for his PhD dissertation, “Covariance Kernels for Fast Automatic Pattern Discovery and…

Carl Rasmussen’s unicycle project discussed by Herman Hauser “Big in 2014”

Carl Rasmussen’s project on getting a unicycle to stand on its own using techniques from Bayesian reinforcement learning is discussed by Acorn founder Herman Hauser in an…

Zoubin Ghahramani interviewed by BBC Radio on ‘Deep Learning’

Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani speaks to BBC Radio 4 on a programme about ‘Deep Learning’.

Finale Doshi-Velez named in IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine’s “AI’s 10 to Watch”

Finale Doshi-Velez, MLG group alumnus, has been named among IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine’s “AI’s 10 to Watch”! From the IEEE Computer Society website:

Announcing the Cambridge – Tübingen PhD Fellowships in Machine Learning

We are pleased to announce the Cambridge-Tübingen PhD fellowships between the University of Cambridge Machine Learning Group and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent…

Quadrianto, Bratières and Ghahramani awarded Amazon Grant

Novi Quadrianto, Sébastien Bratières, and Zoubin Ghahramani have been awarded an Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Education Research Grant (in the Machine Learning category) in…

Three new papers from the group to appear in NIPS 2013

Three new papers from the group are to appear in the Proceeding of Neural Information Processing Systems, 2013, and will be presented at the NIPS conference in Lake Tahoe…

Richard Turner’s work featured in Wired Magazine and on BBC Radio

Richard Turner’s work on developing rich and efficient machine learning methods for audio data with applications ranging from intelligent hearing devices to audio…

Zoubin Ghahramani awarded classic paper prize at ICML 2013

The 2013 Classic Paper Prize at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) was won by Zoubin Ghahramani and coauthors Xiaojin Zhu and John Lafferty for their…

Christian Steinruecken interviews with The Naked Scientists

Group post-doc Christian Steinruecken radio interviews with The Naked Scientists, an award-winning BBC weekly radio programme delivered by a University-based group focusing…

Eight new papers from the group to appear in ICML 2013

Eight new papers from the group are to appear in the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2013), to be held in Altanta, Georgia, USA in…

Carl Rasmussen Wins Department Excellence in Teaching Award

Congratulations to Carl Rasmussen for being awarded the 4th Year Best Lecturer Award in the Engineering department for his teaching in the course “4F13: Machine Learning”.…

New faculty member Richard Turner

Richard Turner has been appointed University Lectureship in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. His research programme spans computer perception, signal processing…

James Lloyd places 3rd in international data mining competition

PhD student James Lloyd places third out of over 100 competitors in the Load Forecasting track of the Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2012 (GEFCom2012), sponsored by…

John Cunningham article published in Nature

Prof. John Cunningham’s article “Neural population dynamics during reaching”, work completed while a Post-Doc in the Machine Learning Group, is published in the journal…

Yarin Gal wins Google Europe Doctoral Fellowship

PhD student Yarin Gal wins prestigious Google Europe Doctoral Fellowship in Machine Learning. This year 15 fellowships were awarded to new doctoral students across Europe.…

Dan Roy receives dissertation award

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…

Andrew Gordon Wilson wins UAI Best Student Paper

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.

Simon Lacoste-Julien awarded Research in Paris grant

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…

Dan Roy to join CBL on Newton International Fellowship

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

Frederik Eaton wins AISTATS Notable Paper Award

Frederik Eaton has won a Notable Paper Award for his AISTATS 2011 paper on his approximation framework “A conditional game for comparing approximations“. A video of the…

Neil Houlsby awarded Google Fellowship

Neil Houlsby will be joining the lab on a doctoral fellowship from Google.

Ryan Adams, Zoubin Ghahramani win AISTATS 2010 Best Paper Award

Ryan Adams and Zoubin Ghahramani have won the AISTATS 2010 Best Paper Award for their work on learning the structure of deep, sparse graphical models. The paper is available …

Sebastien Bratieres receives Yahoo Key Scientific Challenge Award

Sebastien Bratieres has received a prestigious Yahoo Key Scientific Challenge Award to encourage leading, meaningful research into Internet technologies.

Carl Rasmussen awarded 2009 DeGroot Prize

Carl Rasmussen has been awarded the 2009 DeGroot prize for his book “Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning“. The book is availble for purchase or for free as a single pdf.

Sebastien Bratieres awarded AWS grant

Sebastien’s Bratieres has been awarded an Amazon Web Services in Eduction grant.