Anya Sims

StatML CDT student

About Me

I'm a first year DPhil student, co-supervised by Yee Whye Teh and Tom Rainforth. Before this I completed an integrated masters in Information and Computer Engineering at Cambridge, with my final year project on improving neural transducer-based speech recognition system algorithms.

Research Interests

I am currently working on improving understanding of when and why training fails in reinforcement learning. Broadly I'm interested in probabilistic machine learning, meta reinforcement learning, robust causal representation learning, and in general understanding what models are learning, how they learn, and why.

Contact Details

Email: anya.sims@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: G.05

Pronouns: She/Her

George Hutchings

StatML CDT student

About Me

I am a doctoral student in the Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning CDT, supervised by Chris Holmes, Habib Ganjgahi and Thomas Nichols. I work on Statistical machine learning and image analysis, with emphasis on applications to neuro-imaging data. I previously studied Mathematics at Imperial College London.

Research Interests

  • Variational Bayesian methods
  • Statistical machine learning
  • High-dimensional statistics

Contact Details

Email: george.hutchings@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: G.05

Supervisors

Sam Howard

StatML CDT student

About Me

I am a Second Year DPhil student on the StatML programme, supervised by Patrick Rebeschini and George Deligiannidis. My current work focuses on computational optimal transport. Prior to my graduate studies, I obtained an MMath degree from the University of Oxford.

Research Interests

Computational Optimal Transport, Learning Theory, Optimization

Contact Details

Email: howard@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: 1.21

Pronouns: He/Him

Sara De Ornellas

Research Facilitator

Areas of work

I am responsible for all aspects of pre- and post-award grant administration (excluding industrial contracts).  This includes helping with identifying funding opportunities, preparing applications and managing ongoing grants and collaborations.  I also provide administrative support for the Research Strategy Committee.

Contact me for:

  • Support with grant applications
  • Identifying funding opportunities
  • Managing your grant
  • External collaborations

 

Contact Details

Pronouns: She/Her

Room: G.10

Working hours: 9-5.30

Working pattern: Onsite: Mon-Wed, WFH Thursday-Friday

Dr Alexander Greenshields-Watson

Postdoctoral Researcher

About Me

I am a T cell immunologist who has worked at the intersection of structural biology, the wet lab and bioinformatics. My work has focused on CD4+ (helper) T cell recognition of HLA Class-II antigens in both influenza and cancer. However I have spent several years working in the field of cancer immunology and CD3xTCR-bispecific immunotherapy.

Research Interests

My primary research interests are building and exploiting cutting edge informatics tools to understand the rules that govern adaptive immune receptor recognition and their relationship to immune function and dysregulation.

Publications

Contact Details

Email: alexander.greenshieldswatson@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: 2.17

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