Machine Learning

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.

NeurIPS 2021 Success - Multi-Facet Clustering Variational Autoencoders

Christopher Yau has supported Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) PhD students Fabian Falck and Haoting Zhang in the development of work that has now been published as a paper at the NeurIPS 2021 conference. The work entitled Multi-Facet Clustering Variational Autoencoders is a novel class of variational autoencoders with a hierarchy of latent variables, each with a Mixture-of-Gaussians prior, that learns multiple clusterings simultaneously, and is trained fully unsupervised and end-to-end. Chris, who directs the HDRUK PhD programme, writes about the work of the students in this blog.

Artificial Intelligence Webinar - Ovarian Cancer Action UK

Recently Christopher Yau worked with Ovarian Cancer Action UK to put together a webinar on his research for patients and the public. You can find the video on Youtube: “What is artificial intelligence and what does it mean for cancer research?”.

Multiple postdoctoral research positions available

We have 4-5 two/three-year postdoctoral positions available linked to the following projects:

Suitable applicants should either have experience in developing statistical and/or machine learning methods or a background in mathematics and computational science that would enable them to learn relevant research approaches.