Professor Neil Lawrence
| Collaborative Chair in Neuro- and Computer Science Department of Computer Science Regent Court 211 Portobello University of Sheffield Sheffield S1 4DP and
The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience Phone: +44 114 xxx xxxx email: N.Lawrence@dcs.shef.ac.uk |  |
News
AISTATS 2012
Along with Mark Girolami, I'm one of the programme chairs for AISTATS 2012. Bernhard Schölkopf is the general chair and Fernando Pérez-Cruz is handling local arrangements.
If you are interested in integrating MATLAB or Octave code into LaTeX, then you might be interested in MATweave. This is a solution for keeping the code you used to create your figures in your LaTeX file.
We've just appointed two post-doctoral research positions associated with our new group in Sheffield.
From 1st August 2010 I will be taking up a new position as a collaborative Chair between the departments of Neuroscience and Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. I will be based in the Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience. I will be joined there by my colleague Magnus Rattray. We will co-lead research groups in machine learning and computational biology.
Welcome
In Computer Science I co-lead the Machine Learning Research Group. My research interests are in probabilistic models.
Book
An edited volume on "Learning and Inference in Computational Systems Biology" is out with MIT Press. I edited it with Mark Girolami, Magnus Rattray and Guido Sanguinetti. on Learning in Computational and Systems Biology. It originally emerged from our PASCAL Thematic Programme and the follow on workshops. The MIT Press site is here.
AISTATS 2010 in Europe!
For the first time the AISTATS conference was held in Europe. It took place in Sardinia from May 13th-15th 2010. Further European AISTATS are planned for 2012, 2014 etc.. I was General Chair for the meeting and Yee Whye Teh and Mike Titterington were the Program Chairs.
Interspeech 2009 Tutorial
For details of an Interspeech tutorial on probabilistic dimensionality reduction see here.
PhD Projects
If you are interested in doing a PhD in Machine Learning you can apply to our research group.
I have a number of PhD projects available:
- Animation by Machine Learning with Motion Capture Data
- Data Driven Mechanistic Models for Systems Biology
- Inferring Complex Hidden Causes of Disease through Probabilistic Models
Book
I had the pleasure of co-editing a volume on dataset shift with Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Masashi Sugiyama and Anton Schwaighofer. You can find more details on it here.
ICML 2008 Tutorial
For details of an ICML tutorial on probabilistic dimensionality reduction see here.
Thematic Programmes
With Marc Dymetman I organised the first Thematic Programme for the European FP7 Network of Excellence PASCAL II on Leveraging Complex Prior Knowledge for Learning.
With Mark Girolami, Magnus Rattray and Guido Sanguinetti I co-organised a thematic programme for the European FP6 Network of Excellence PASCAL on Learning in Computational and Systems Biology.
Workshops
With Mauricio Alvarez I organized a Statistics and Machine Learning Interface Meeting.
With Joaquin Quiñonero Candela I organised the Bayesian Research Kitchen.
I helped out Cédric Archambeau, Ian Roulstone, John Shawe-Taylor and Andrew Stuart in organising Approximate Inference in Stochastic Processes and Dynamical Systems.
I helped out Tony Dodd and Rob Harrison in organising a 'Winter School' in Data Modelling.
I helped out Matthias Seeger, David Barber and Onno Zoeter in organising a NIPS workshop on "Approximate Bayesian Inference in Continuous/Hybrid Systems".
The Parameter Estimation in Systems Biology PASCAL workshop was co-organised by myself and Magnus Rattray. It was held in Manchester on the 28-29th March 2007.
I helped out Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Masashi Sugiyama and Anton Schwaighofer in organising a NIPS workshop on "Learning when Test and Training Inputs Have Different Distributions". See the associated book from MIT Press.
I co-organised the Gaussian Processes in Practice workshop with Joaquin Quiñonero Candela and Anton Schwaighofer.
Editing
I started the JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings series and I'm currently the series editor.
I'm an associate editor for IEEE TPAMI.
I'm an associate editor for JMLR.
Research Fellows
Michalis Titsias (with Magnus Rattray, TIGRE Project)James Hensman (with Magnus Rattray)
Jaakko Peltonen (with Magnus Rattray)
PhD Students
Alfredo
Kalaitzis
Nicoló Fusi
Andreas Damianou
Former Post-docs
Pei Gao
(with Magnus
Rattray, PUMA Project)
Guido
Sanguinetti (worked on PUMA
Project)
Huma
Lodhi (worked on Human
Motion)
Former PhD Students
Mauricio
Álvarez (viva 4/5/11: now Associate Professor at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia, thesis)
Chris
Penfold. (viva 27/11/09 with Alastair
Goldman): Now at Warwick.
Carl Henrik Ek (viva 25th
August 2009 with Phil Torr):
Went to Berkeley and now KTH.
Nathaniel
King (viva 21/11/2007): Now at IBM.
Yasser
Abdel-Haleem (with Steve Renals):
Now at IBM.
Tonatiuh
Pena Centeno: Now a postdoc at Greifswald.
Computational Health Informatics
Computational Health Informatics.