Mathematics for Machine Learning

Authors

Marc Peter Deisenroth, University College London
Marc Peter Deisenroth is the DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence at University College London. Prior to this, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His research areas include data-efficient learning, probabilistic modeling, and autonomous decision making. Deisenroth was Program Chair of the European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL) 2012 and Workshops Chair of Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2013. His research received Best Paper Awards at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2014 and the International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS) 2016. In 2018, he was awarded the President's Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher at Imperial College London. He is a recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award and a Microsoft P.hD. grant.

A. Aldo Faisal, Imperial College London
A. Aldo Faisal leads the Brain and Behaviour Lab at Imperial College London, where he is also a Reader in Neurotechnology at the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Computing. He was elected Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and has worked with Daniel Wolpert FRS on human sensorimotor control at the Computational and Biological Learning Group. Faisal worked on strategic management consulting with McKinsey & Co. and was a 'quant' with the investment bank Credit Suisse. His research aims at understanding the brain with principles from engineering, which translates into direct technological applications for patients and society.

Cheng Soon Ong, Data61, CSIRO
Cheng Soon Ong is Principal Research Scientist at the Machine Learning Research Group, Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra (CSIRO). He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Australian National University. His research focuses on enabling scientific discovery by extending statistical machine learning methods. Ong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Australian National University in 2005. He was a postdoc at Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics and Friedrich Miescher Laboratory. From 2008 to 2011, he was a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, and in 2012 and 2013 he worked in the Diagnostic Genomics Team at NICTA in Melbourne.