Stephen Roberts (academic) explained

Stephen Roberts (born March 1965[1]) FREng[2] is a British academic and scientist. He is a professor of machine learning at University of Oxford and leads the Machine Learning Research Group,[3] a sub-group of the Department of Engineering Science.

In 2016 he co-founded Mind Foundry,[4] an artificial intelligence company, along with his colleague professor Michael Osborne.[5]

Education

Roberts received a first-class degree in physics and a DPhil in machine learning.[6] He also completed a PhD in Signal Processing at Imperial College London.[7]

Career

In 1994, Roberts was appointed to the faculty at Imperial College London.[8] Roberts has been faculty at the University of Oxford since 1999 and a professor of machine learning since 2004.[9]

Honours, advisory roles, and fellowship

Professor Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Statistical Society, the IET, and the ELLIS Society.[10] He was Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (2014-2021) and is co-lead of the Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship Program (2022-).[11]

He is a professorial fellow of Somerville College at the University of Oxford.[12]

He was a founding director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems.[13]

He is also a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stephen John ROBERTS personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK . 2024-04-24 . find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk . en.
  2. Web site: Stephen Roberts' Home Page . 2023-11-13 . www.robots.ox.ac.uk.
  3. Web site: home - Machine Learning Research Group . 2023-10-30 . www.robots.ox.ac.uk.
  4. Web site: Foundry . Mind . AI For High-Stakes Applications. Responsible, By Design. . 2023-11-06 . www.mindfoundry.ai . en-gb.
  5. Web site: 2016-03-02 . Oxford machine learning spinout unlocks big data insights University of Oxford . 2023-10-18 . www.ox.ac.uk . en.
  6. Web site: Stephen Roberts . 2023-10-18 . eng.ox.ac.uk.
  7. Web site: Professor Stephen Roberts - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy . 2023-10-18 . www.csap.cam.ac.uk.
  8. Web site: Professor Stephen Roberts - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy . 2023-12-01 . www.csap.cam.ac.uk.
  9. Web site: Stephen Roberts . 2023-10-18 . eng.ox.ac.uk.
  10. Web site: Williams . Jonathan . European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems . 2023-10-30 . European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems . en.
  11. Web site: Stephen Roberts' Home Page . 2023-12-01 . www.robots.ox.ac.uk.
  12. Web site: Stephen Roberts . 2023-10-19 . Somerville College Oxford . 10 June 2021 . en-GB.
  13. Web site: AIMS . 2023-10-19 . aims.robots.ox.ac.uk.
  14. Web site: The Alan Turing Institute .