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The Great UK PhD Data Science Survey

What am I doing? My name is Christopher Yau and I am Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford and Health Data Research UK. I am carrying out a survey of UK PhD students who are working in any area of data science and I need your help! We hope to get survey responses from over 300 PhD students so please help us by sparing 10-15 minutes of your time to answer some questions.

AISTATS 2022

Congratulations to PhD student Dominic Danks whose paper Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis has been accepted for presentation at AISTATS 2022.

Group relocation to Oxford.

Christopher Yau will be relocating to the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford in February 2022 to take up a position as Senior Research Fellow between the Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health and the Nuffield Department of Population Health. Future recruitment to the group for postdocs and students will be via the University of Oxford.

ICML 2021

Congratulations to PhD student Dominic Danks whose paper BasisDeVAE: Interpretable Simultaneous Dimensionality Reduction and Feature-Level Clustering with Derivative-Based Variational Autoencoders. has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference for Machine Learning 2021.

ECOSTAT & ISBA 2021

Congratulations to PhD student Woojung Kim whose will presenting his work on “Learning multimorbidity and its temporal dynamics with the Wright-Fisher Indian Buffet Processs” at the EcoStat 2021 and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis World Meeting 2021 conferences.

PhD Opportunities 2021/22

A new PhD projects is being advertised to join my group at the University of Manchester for the academic year 2021/22. Applications are due by 21 May 2021 for the EPSRC Doctoral Training Programme. Successful applicants will receive funding support for their PhD studies. [Explainable AI for Multimodal Data Integration in Biomedical Applications](https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/ https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/epsrc-dtp-explainable-ai-for-multimodal-data-integration-in-biomedical-applications/?p122456). Deadline: 21 May 2021.

HDRUK PhD Director

Health Data Research UK is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Christopher Yau as Director of its HDRUK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science, starting 1 April 2021. (https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/christopher-yau-appointed-director-of-health-data-research-uk-turing-wellcome-phd-programme/).

PhD Opportunities 2021/22

Two new PhD projects are being advertised to join my group at the University of Manchester for the academic year 2021/22. Applications are due by 15 November 2020 for the MRC Doctoral Training Programme. Successful applicants will receive funding support for their PhD studies. Breaking Free with Artificial Intelligence: using data-driven insights to improve digital health support for substance use disorders. Deadline: 15 November 2020. AI-scBio: Artificial Intelligence for Single Cell Biology.

PhD Opportunities 2020/21

A new funded PhD opportunity for UK/EU students is available to join my group for the academic year 2020/21: Breaking Free with Artificial Intelligence: using data-driven insights to improve digital health support for substance use disorders

PhD Opportunities 2020/21

There are two new funded PhD opportunities for UK/EU students available to join my group for the academic year 2020/21: Explainable AI for Multimodal Data Integration in Biomedical Applications This project will seek to develop explainable probabilistic machine learning methods for multimodal data integration for biomedical applications. We will consider a number of theoretical and practical issues with data integration and explainable AI and develop robust statistically sound solutions to these research problems.