Machine Learning Lab

Machine Learning Laboratory - Data Science Institute - Imperial College London

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History 

The Machine Learning Laboratory, was launched on the 22nd March 2018. 

The vision of the Machine Learning Lab is to develop autonomous decision-making systems, which close the perception-action-learning loop while learning from small amounts of data.

Director of the Machine Learning Lab:  Professor Alessandra Russo 

Mission

Therefore, the laboratory aims to promote and lead scientific advances in data-efficient machine learning, i.e., the ability to learn in complex domains without requiring large quantities of data. Research areas that fall into this category include probabilistic modelling, incorporation of domain or structural prior knowledge, transfer learning, semi-supervised learning, active learning, Bayesian optimization and reinforcement learning.

To support the launch of the new Machine Learning Lab, the DSI announced a £100k seed fund for pilot projects in the area of probabilistic modelling for DSI Fellows. 

We were delighted with the response we got and are pleased to announce the four projects that have been awarded initial funding for 5 months, to foster basic research in Machine Learning.  

The four project funded are:

	The project entitled “A fully probabilistic approach to infer intra-urban air quality from limited monitoring stations using Bayesian nonparametrics”, is led by Dr Ke Han from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in collaboration with Dr Shahram Heydari and Dr Audrey de Nazelle - both from the Centre for Environmental Policy.
	Dr Marc Deisenroth has been awarded for his project on “Distributional robust adversarial training for natural language processing”.
	Dr Ruth Misener has received funding for her work on “Dynamic Design of Experiments for Model Discrimination”.
	The fourth project to receive funding is led by Professor Simon Schultz, from the Department of Bioengineering, working jointly with Dr Seth Flaxman (Department of Mathematics) and Dr Stephen Brickley (Department of Life Sciences). They will work on “Developing machine learning approaches to reveal changes in whole-brain connectivity during ageing and neurodegeneration”.

 To learn more about the winners and their research read Anna Cupani's article. 

Imperial @ NeurIPS 2019

To facilitate machine learning research at Imperial, the Machine Learning Lab organises the Imperial @ NeurIPS workshop. 
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is a prestigious peer reviewed conference that aims at publishing cutting edge research in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and their related areas. Imperial College London research community has always made its presence felt at NeurIPS from various departments and groups. The Data Science Institute (DSI) aims at creating a common platform across Departments of Imperial College London to present their accepted works at NeurIPS to the Imperial College Researchers.

The Imperial @ NeurIPS 2019 workshop will take place on 28 November, for more information go to Imperial @NeurIPS 2019  
Registration of the workshop is now open at Eventbrite.  

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