Carl Henrik Ek
Scholar

Carl Henrik Ek

Google Scholar ID: 9yQ1tQoAAAAJ
University of Cambridge
Machine Learning
Citations & Impact
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Citations
986
 
H-index
18
 
i10-index
28
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
68
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Promoted to Professor of Statistical Learning, University of Cambridge (Oct 2024)
  • Awarded the Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence (Mar 2024)
  • Appointed Visiting Professor in Machine Learning at Karolinska Institute (Nov 2023)
  • Awarded Docent in Machine Learning at KTH (Feb 2016)
  • Teacher of the Year in Computer Science, University of Bristol (2016)
  • Teacher of the Year, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Nov 2015)
  • Teacher of the Year from Student Chapter in Industrial Econ (Oct 2015)
  • Gave TEDx talk titled 'Why I do not fear Artificial Intelligence' (Dec 2015)
Research Experience
  • Professor of Statistical Learning, University of Cambridge (since Oct 2024)
  • Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning, University of Cambridge (since Jun 2020)
  • Previously Senior Lecturer at University of Bristol
  • Former Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Trevor Darrell and Prof. Raquel Urtasun
Background
  • Professor of Statistical Learning at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
  • Member of the ml@cl research group; Fellow and Director of Studies at Pembroke College
  • Visiting Professor at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
  • Docent in Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
  • Co-Director of the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision Making for Complex Systems (a collaboration between University of Cambridge and University of Manchester)
  • Involved with the Accelerate Program at the Computer Lab, Cambridge
  • Research focuses on modeling and inference in machine learning, particularly on formulating data-efficient and interpretable assumptions for learning from small datasets
  • Primary research area: Bayesian non-parametric methods, especially Gaussian processes