As a member of the expert panel for the review of medical devices, Professor Holmes called on the Government to appoint an expert panel to address the AI revolution happening in healthcare.

We are saddened to learn of the death of Professor Peter Armitage CBE.

Valentine's themed bakes with the MPLS Head of Division, Professor Jim Naismith and coffee.

The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2022 Corcoran Memorial Prize is Dr Adam Foster. Adam was supervised by Professor Yee Whye Teh and Dr Tom Rainforth and his thesis was entitled, ‘Variational, Monte Carlo and policy-Based approaches to Bayesian experimental design’.

The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, has appointed Professor Charlotte Deaneas the new Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Prof Gesine Reinert has been awarded the 2024 Bernoulli prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Probability by the Bernoulli Society  alongside her co-authors Christophe Ley and Yvik Swan.

Backed by over £15 million funding, the University of Oxford is establishing a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) that will combine the university’s strengths in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, Big Data, and environmental sciences.

We are delighted to announce that one of our third-year DPhil Students, Vik Shirvaikar, is one of the new 2023-24 MPLS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fellows.