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 group, called DELVE (Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics), is a multi-disciplinary group covened to support a data-driven approach to learning from the different approaches to managing the pandemic.
For more information about this group, please visit https://royalsociety.org/news/2020/04/royal-society-convenes-data-analytics-group-to-tackle-COVID-19/.
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