Oxford Statistics researchers Valentin De Bortoli, Emile Mathieu, Michael Hutchinson, James Thornton, Yee Whye Teh and Arnaud Doucet has received an Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS 2022, the key conference in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Their paper Riemmanian Score-Based Generative Modeling generalizes score-based generative model (SGM) from Euclidean space to Riemannian manifolds by identifying major components that contribute to the success of SGMs. The method is both a novel and technically useful contribution.
This is a fantastic achievement, as only 13 papers out of over 8,000 submissions received such an award. Oxford University
Oxford × QRT Labs welcomes first DPhil cohort and announces new Director
The University of Oxford has welcomed the first cohort of DPhil students to Oxford × QRT Labs, part of a long-term research initiative between Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) and the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London.
Applications for postgraduate study are now open for 2027–28 entry
Postgraduate study at Oxford Statistics offers the chance to work across a broad range of research, from statistical theory and methodology, probability and machine learning to applications in areas including genetics, epidemiology, computational biology, finance and the social sciences.
Tom Rainforth awarded full Professorial title
Tom Rainforth has been awarded the title of Professor of Statistical Machine Learning and, as of 1 September 2026, is also a Fellow of Jesus College.