Publications: Graph Attention Networks, Deep Graph Infomax; Contributions: substantially improved travel-time predictions in Google Maps, guided mathematicians towards new top-tier theorems and conjectures, developed the first full AI system for tactical suggestions in association football, and achieved the first AI-assisted top-percentile result in competitive programming; Awards: Best Paper Award at NeurIPS'22 GLFrontiers workshop.
Research Experience
Positions: Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and an Associate of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Education
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), supervised by Pietro Liò.
Background
Research interests: aligning neural networks to (classical) computation, assessing and improving their out-of-distribution generalisation ability; focusing on neural algorithmic reasoning, graph representation learning, categorical and geometric deep learning. Professional field: Computer Science.