Paper titled 'DeformTime: capturing variable dependencies with deformable attention for time series forecasting' published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
Paper titled 'Neural network models for influenza forecasting with associated uncertainty using Web search activity trends' published in PLOS Computational Biology
Paper titled 'An artificial intelligence approach for selecting effective teacher communication strategies in autism education' published in Nature (npj) Science of Learning
Paper titled 'Tracking COVID-19 using online search' published in Nature (npj) Digital Medicine
Google.org initiative supporting research on COVID-19
Research on transfer learning for disease surveillance models from online search activity covered by Nature as part of an outlook article about real-time flu tracking
Two papers accepted by the Web Conference 2019: one proposes a transfer learning method for estimating flu rates using web search activity in locations without established health surveillance systems, and the other proposes a privacy-preserving framework for collecting web search activity data for health-related research
2017/18 annual flu report by Public Health England incorporates internet-based flu rate estimates, powered by web search activity and our machine learning models
Paper on multi-task learning models for syndromic surveillance from Google search data accepted by WWW 2018
Paper proposing a better feature selection method for syndromic surveillance models from web search activity accepted by WWW 2017
Paper on predicting judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights using statistical NLP published in PeerJ Computer Science, covered by VICE, BBC, The Guardian, and a UCL press release
Research Experience
Leading the Ωmega research group; research areas include time series forecasting, influenza prediction, autism education, and COVID-19 tracking
Background
Associate Professor, Ωmega Research Group, Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University College London