Dr Fergus Imrie

Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Fellow

About Me

I’m currently a Florence Nightingale Bicentenary Fellow at the University of Oxford in the Department of Statistics. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and, before that, I completed my DPhil here in the Department, supervised by Charlotte Deane.

Research Interests

My research develops and applies novel machine learning methods to challenges in healthcare, medicine, and drug discovery. 

Methodologically, my work spans both predictive and generative methods, explainable AI, feature selection, causal inference, and learning from unlabelled data. From an application perspective, I am currently particularly interested in structure-based drug design.

Please see my Google Scholar page for an up-to-date list of publications.

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Email: fergus.imrie [AT] stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: 2.05

Personal website: https://fimrie.github.io/ 

Lucile Ter-Minassian

Stat ML CDT Student

About Me

I am a PhD student in the StatML CDT program, working with Professor Chris Holmes since late 2020. During my PhD, I have interned as a Research Scientist at Google Research, where I developed a concept-based interpretability framework, and at IBM Research, where I created an interpretable balancing method to identify local natural experiments. Prior to my PhD, I earned an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Ecole Centrale Paris and an MSc in Medical Statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Research Interests

My PhD research is centered on AI Safety, with a focus on explainability, causal inference, and robustness. I aim to develop analytical methods that are solution-driven and applicable to real-world problems. Recently, I have been exploring topics related to Large Language Model (LLM) Alignment and Interpretability, particularly in the area of Mechanistic Interpretability.

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Jacob Mercer

Mathematics of Random Systems CDT student

About Me

I am a second year PhD student, generally interested in branching/coalescence processes, random combinatorial structures, statistical physics models and free boundary problems. Specifically I am studying the limiting behaviour and critical values of certain branching Brownian motion particle systems. My research is largely on the theory and not applications of branching particle systems, but I am always open to hearing about potential applications and systems which may be well modelled by branching processes.

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Dr Klara Kaleb

Senior Research Associate

About Me

I am a Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and supervised by Professor Yee Whye Teh.

Prior to this, I did a PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Imperial College London. I also worked on Applied Machine Learning problems at X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory.

Research Interests

My primary research interests include large language models, natural language processing, information retrieval, and their use in nature recovery and addressing the impacts of climate change.

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Email: klara.kaleb@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: G1.18

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