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Stephen Roberts (academic)

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Stephen Roberts (born March 1965[1]) FREng[2] is a British academic and scientist. He is a professor of machine learning at University of Oxford and leads the Machine Learning Research Group,[3] a sub-group of the Department of Engineering Science.

In 2016 he co-founded Mind Foundry,[4] an artificial intelligence company, along with his colleague professor Michael Osborne.[5]

Education

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Roberts received a first-class degree in physics and a DPhil in machine learning.[6] He also completed a PhD in Signal Processing at Imperial College London.[7]

Career

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In 1994, Roberts was appointed to the faculty at Imperial College London.[8] Roberts has been faculty at the University of Oxford since 1999 and a professor of machine learning since 2004.[9]

Honours, advisory roles, and fellowship

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Professor Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Statistical Society, the IET, and the ELLIS Society.[10] He was Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (2014-2021) and is co-lead of the Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship Program (2022-).[11]

He is a professorial fellow of Somerville College at the University of Oxford.[12]

He was a founding director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems.[13]

He is also a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.[14]

References

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  1. ^ "Stephen John ROBERTS personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  2. ^ "Stephen Roberts' Home Page". www.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  3. ^ "home - Machine Learning Research Group". www.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  4. ^ Foundry, Mind. "AI For High-Stakes Applications. Responsible, By Design". www.mindfoundry.ai. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  5. ^ "Oxford machine learning spinout unlocks big data insights | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  6. ^ "Stephen Roberts". eng.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  7. ^ "Professor Stephen Roberts - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy". www.csap.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  8. ^ "Professor Stephen Roberts - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy". www.csap.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  9. ^ "Stephen Roberts". eng.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  10. ^ Williams, Jonathan. "European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems". European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  11. ^ "Stephen Roberts' Home Page". www.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  12. ^ "Stephen Roberts". Somerville College Oxford. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  13. ^ "AIMS". aims.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  14. ^ "The Alan Turing Institute".