Posted: 25th January 2017

The next lecture in our Strachey Lecture series will be Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, ‘Probabilistic machine learning: foundations and frontiers’.

Probabilistic modelling provides a mathematical framework for understanding what learning is, and has therefore emerged as one of the principal approaches for designing computer algorithms that learn from data acquired through experience. Professor Ghahramani will review the foundations of this field, from basics to Bayesian nonparametric models and scalable inference. He will then highlight some current areas of research at the frontiers of machine learning, leading up to topics such as probabilistic programming, Bayesian optimisation, the rational allocation of computational resources, and the Automatic Statistician.

Zoubin Ghahramani is Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Co-Director of Uber AI Labs, and the Cambridge Director of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for Data Science. He is also the Deputy Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He has worked and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, the University of Toronto, the Gatsby Unit at UCL, and CMU. 

When and where: 

14:00 7th March 2017 ( week 8, Hilary Term 2017 )

Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP

Book here: goo.gl/B7cTBT  

The Strachey Lectures are generously supported by OxFORD Asset Management.