MPLS AI People
Researchers across MPLS advancing innovation in AI, machine learning and data science.
| Department | Area of AI | Name | Academic Position | Expertise |
| Computer Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Alessandro Abate | Professor of Computer Science (Verification and Control) | Formal Verification & Control Theory |
| Physics | Core AI & Methodologies | Suzanne Aigrain | Professor of Astrophysics | Bayesian Exoplanet Detection & Stellar Signal Analysis |
| Engineering Science | AI for Science & Engineering | Natalia Ares | Associate Professor | Machine Learning Control & Quantum Thermodynamics |
| Engineering Science | Scalable Computing & AI Infrastructure | Wes Armour | Professor of Scientific Computing | HPC, scientific computing, GPU computing |
| Computer Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Sara Bernardini | Professor of Computer Science | Automated Planning & Multi-Agent Systems |
| Materials | Scalable Computing & AI Infrastructure | Harish Bhaskaran | Professor of Applied Nanomaterials | Photonic Nanodevices & Neuromorphic Computing |
| Computer Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Michael Bronstein | DeepMind Professor of Artificial Intelligence | Geometric Deep Learning & Graph Neural Networks |
| Mathematical Institute | AI for Environment & Sustainability | Coralia Cartis | Professor of Numerical Optimization | Nonconvex Optimization & Algorithmic Complexity |
| Materials | AI for Science & Engineering | Martin Castell | Professor of Materials Modelling | Surface Nanoscience & Nanoscale Sensor Materials |
| Engineering Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | David Clifton | Chair of Clinical Machine Learning | Clinical Machine Learning & Health Informatics |
| Computer Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Christian Coester | Associate Professor of Computer Science | Online Algorithms & Algorithmic Learning |
| Engineering Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Constantin Coussios OBE | Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) | Therapeutic Ultrasound & Translational Drug Delivery |
| Computer Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Bernardo Cuenca Grau | Professor of Computer Science | Knowledge Representation & Ontologies |
| MPLS | AI Strategy, Ecosystem & Translation | Nav Dean | Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence | AI startups & strategic industry partnerships |
| Statistics | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Charlotte Deane MBE | Professor of Structural Bioinformatics | Protein Informatics & AI‑Driven Drug Discovery |
| Chemistry | AI for Science & Engineering | Volker Deringer | Professor of Materials Chemistry | Quantum mechanics & machine learning |
| Engineering Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Xiaowen Dong | Associate Professor of Engineering Science | Networked Signal Processing & Learning |
| Chemistry | AI for Environment & Sustainability | Fernanda Duarte | Associate Professor of Computational Organic Chemistry | Computational Organic Chemistry & Reaction Modeling |
| Computer Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Seth Flaxman | Associate Professor of Computer Science | Bayesian Inference & Spatiotemporal Modelling |
| Engineering Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Jakob Foerster | Associate Professor | Multi-agent learning and machine learning |
| Computer Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Yarin Gal | Associate Professor of Machine Learning | Bayesian Deep Learning & Uncertainty Quantification |
| Computer Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | David Gavaghan | Professor of Computer Science | Computational Biology & Robust Biomedical Modeling |
| Mathematical Institute | Scalable Computing & AI Infrastructure | Mike Giles | Professor of Numerical Analysis | High performance parallel computing |
| Computer Science | AI for Science & Engineering | Atılım Güneş Baydin | Oxford AI4Science Lab Lead | Differentiable & Probabilistic Programming |
| Engineering Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Nick Hawes | Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | AI & machine learning for robotics |
| Statistics | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Chris Holmes | Professor of Biostatistics | Statistical methods in genomics and genetic epidemiology |
| Engineering Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Wei Huang | Professor of Biological Engineering | Synthetic Biology & Single-Cell Raman Technology |
| Materials | AI for Science & Engineering | Saiful Islam | Professor of Materials Modelling | Atomistic Modelling of Energy Materials |
| Computer Science | AI Ethics, Safety & Society | Marina Jirotka | Professor of Computer Science (Human Centred Computing) | Responsible research & innovation |
| Computer Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Varun Kanade | Associate Professor of Computer Science | Theoretical Machine Learning |
| Physics | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Achillefs Kapanidis | Professor of Biological Physics | Single-Molecule Imaging & Biophysical Biosensing |
| Computer Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Sandra Kiefer | Associate Professor of Computer Science | Graph Algorithms & Logical Foundations of Learning |
| Computer Science | AI Ethics, Safety & Society | Marta Kwiatkowska | Professor of Computer Science (Computing Systems) | Probabilistic & Quantitative Verification |
| Statistics | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Ben Lambert | Associate Professor of Statistics | Bayesian Methods for Epidemiology & Biological Systems |
| Engineering Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Lord Lionel Tarassenko | Professor of Engineering Science | Signal processing for medicine & machine learning |
| Physics | Core AI & Methodologies | Ard Louis | Professor of Theoretical Physics | Statistical Physics & Algorithmic Structure in Learning |
| Physics | Scalable Computing & AI Infrastructure | Alexander Lvovsky | Professor of Physics | Quantum Optics & Optical Computing |
| Computer Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Andrew Markham | Professor of Computer Science | Sensor Systems & Localization in GPS-Denied Environments |
| MPLS | AI Strategy, Ecosystem & Translation | James Naismith | Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division | Structural Biology of Enzymes & Protein Mechanisms |
| Computer Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Ana Namburete | Associate Professor of Computer Science | Machine Learning in Neuroimaging |
| Engineering Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Paul Newman | BP Professor of Information Engineering | Autonomous Navigation & Mobile Robotics |
| Computer Science | AI Ethics, Safety & Society | Sir Nigel Shadbolt | Professor of Computer Science | Human-Centered Web Science & Open Data Innovation |
| Engineering Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Alison Noble | Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering | Biomedical imaging analysis & machine learning |
| Engineering Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Michael Osborne | Professor of Engineering Science | Bayesian Optimisation & Probabilistic Numerics |
| Engineering Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Antonis Papachristodoulou | Professor of Control Engineering | Systems in synthetic biology and fluid mechanics |
| Materials | AI for Science & Engineering | Mauro Pasta | Professor of Applied Electrochemistry | Battery Materials & Electrochemical Energy Storage |
| Engineering Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Ingmar Posner | Professor of Engineering Science (Applied Artificial Intelligence) | Autonomous Robot Learning & Deployment |
| Engineering Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Victor Prisacariu | Associate Professor of Engineering Science | Real-Time Semantic SLAM & Augmented Reality |
| Statistics | Core AI & Methodologies | Patrick Rebeschini | Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning | Statistically optimal algorithms for machine learning |
| Engineering Science and Materials | AI for Science & Engineering | Roger Reed | Professor of Engineering Science, Materials and Solid Mechanics | Superalloy Design & Computational Materials |
| Engineering Science | AI for Science & Engineering | Stephen Roberts | Royal Academy of Engineering / Man Group Chair in Machine Learning | Bayesian ML & Sequential Decision Making |
| Computer Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Blanca Rodriguez | Professor of Computer Science | In Silico Cardiovascular Modeling & Digital Twin Simulations |
| Computer Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Alex Rogers | Professor of Computer Science | Sustainable AI & Sensor-enabled Agent Systems |
| Mathematical Institute | AI for Science & Engineering | Justin Sirignano | Professor of Mathematics | Mathematical Modelling & Deep Learning |
| Engineering Science | AI in Health & Life Sciences | Harrison Steel | Associate Professor of Engineering Science | Synthetic Biology, Robotics and Control engineering |
| Physics | AI for Environment & Sustainability | Philip Stier | Professor of Atmospheric Physics | AI‑Enhanced Aerosol & Cloud Climate Modeling |
| Mathematical Institute | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Jared Tanner | Professor of the Mathematics of Information | Compressed Sensing & Numerical Algorithms |
| Statistics | Core AI & Methodologies | Yee Whye Teh | Professor Statistical Machine Learning | Bayesian Nonparametrics & Scalable Probabilistic Learning |
| Engineering Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Philip Torr | Professor of Engineering Science | Computer Vision, AI safety, Agentic AI, AI for Science |
| Computer Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Niki Trigoni | Professor of Computer Science | Intelligent Systems for Navigation & Context Awareness |
| Engineering Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Andrea Vedaldi | Professor Computer Vision and Machine Learning | Computer Vision & Unsupervised 3D Geometric Learning |
| Engineering Science | AI for Science & Engineering | Konstantina Vogiatzaki | Associate Professor of Engineering Science | Cryogenic Flows & Multiscale Simulation |
| Computer Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Mark van der Wilk | Associate Professor of Computer Science | Bayesian Machine Learning |
| Computer Science | Core AI & Methodologies | Michael Wooldridge | Ashall Professor of Foundations of Artificial Intelligence | Multi-Agent Systems & Computational Logic |
| Engineering Science | Scalable Computing & AI Infrastructure | Noa Zilberman | Professor of Engineering Science | Programmable Networks & Scalable AI Systems |
| Engineering Science | Perception, Robotics & Edge AI | Andrew Zisserman | Royal Society Research Professor | Multiple-View Geometry & Deep Visual Recognition |