Professor Yee Whye Teh, from the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford has been seconded from his part time role as a Research Assistant at DeepMind to be part of the Royal Society data analytics group to tackle COVID-19.

The Board of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has appointed  Professor Sir Bernard Silverman, statistician, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office (2010-2017) and now part-time Professor of Modern Slavery Statistics, University of Nottingham to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Researchers in the Department of Statistics were instrumental in setting up the EPSRC SABS R³ CDT that proposed the pilot UNIQ+ programme last year.

Oxford University will be home to one of 17 new ELLIS units, part of a pan-European effort to shape how machine learning and artificial intelligence will change the world. The unit’s efforts span from core theoretical underpinnings and methodologies to applications in robotics, finance, health and biology.

Our current doctoral student James Wilsenach, our former doctoral student Michael Golden, as well as Oxford student Moritz Moeller and Li Wei of Tongji University, China, formed team Unibrowser to take part in, and win, the IEEE BR41N.IO Designer's Hackathon.

Professor Charlotte Deane was interviewed about the role of AI in drug discovery. 

Many congratulations to Professor Charlotte Deane who has been appointed Deputy Executive Chair of the EPSRC. Professor Deane joins EPSRC on secondment from the University of Oxford where she is currently Professor of Structural Bioinformatics, and was Head of the Department of Statistics from 2015 until earlier this year.

Mareli Grady and Professor Patrick Rebeschini are both recipients of the MPLS 2019 Teaching Awards.

Along with a group of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) experts from industry and academia and representatives from international non-governmental organisations (NGOs),  the Department of Statistics’s Prof. Yee Whye Teh was involved in releasing the Dagstuhl Declaration to guide future collaborations between AI experts and NGOs.