Isak Valsson

DPhil in Statistics student

About Me

I'm a first year DPhil student interested applying geometric deep learning methods to binding affinity prediction. Specifically, I'm interested in how to best represent a molecule interacting with a protein and developing methods to improve the generalisability of binding affinity models.

Research Interests

Small molecule drug discovery, and machine learning.

Contact Details

Email: isak.valsson@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: 2.03

Pronouns: He/Him

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

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