Mar 2025: Editorial Board member of ACM Transactions on AI for Science
Jan 2025: Co-organizing LAFI workshop at POPL 2025
Dec 2024: Co-organizing 7th Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop at NeurIPS 2024
May 2024: Paper “Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress” published in Science
May 2024: Area Chair for AISTATS 2024
Dec 2023: Co-organizing 6th Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop at NeurIPS 2023
Oct 2023: AI risk management work featured by TIME Magazine and The Guardian front page
Aug 2023: Appointed to Royal Society’s International Exchanges Committee
Jun 2023: Co-organized residential program on Differentiable and Probabilistic Programming for Fundamental Physics in Munich and topical workshop at Max Planck Institute
Jun 2023: Evaluation panel member for Helmholtz Graduate School DASHH
Mar 2023: Area Chair for AISTATS 2023
Dec 2022: Co-organizing 5th Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop at NeurIPS 2022
Aug 2022: Paper on synthetic solar EUV images accepted to The Astrophysical Journal
Jun 2022: Invited talk at Collège de France
Feb 2022: Invited talk at NSF AI Planning Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2022: Papers accepted at AISTATS and ICLR
Dec 2021: Invited talk at Bayesian Deep Learning workshop; co-organized 4th Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop at NeurIPS
Research Experience
Departmental Lecturer in Machine Learning at University of Oxford, leading Oxford AI for Science Lab
Postdoc with Frank Wood on probabilistic programming
Postdoc with Barak Pearlmutter at National University of Ireland Maynooth, specializing in automatic differentiation in higher-order functional languages
Former research consultant for Microsoft Research Cambridge
Faculty and AI Technical Committee member for NASA and ESA Frontier Development Lab
Background
Departmental Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Lecturer in Computer Science at Jesus College, University of Oxford
Leads the Oxford AI for Science Lab
Research focuses on probabilistic machine learning, generative modeling, probabilistic programming, deep learning, and simulation-based inference
Affiliated with the Torr Vision Group (TVG), Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group (OATML)
Member of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Oxford Unit
Former research consultant for Microsoft Research Cambridge
Involved in NASA and ESA Frontier Development Lab programs as faculty and AI Technical Committee member