Information Engineering Division seminar list

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86036389828?pwd=U0dsWis2alp4K0tORHpZa3MrSXZXdz09.

Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning for Audio and Speech Processing

User Umberto Cappellazzo, University of Trento.

Monday 22 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

AI Control

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Neural likelihood-free inference

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition

User Seán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

House Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86177109545?pwd=TmE1YlgzNWJKdGJQa1NQdk1kNS9zQT09.

Speaker Retrieval in the Wild: Challenges, Effectiveness and Robustness

User Erfan Loweimi, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

House JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Examples of "control" in research and teaching at Physics

User Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

User Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

User Jonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

House JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Learning to Predict and to Act - Exploring Structure in World Models and Latent Spaces

User Ingmar Posner, Oxford University .

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Board Room, Baker Building, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Control of Uncertainty or Control with Uncertainty? A New Control Design Paradigm for Autonomous Stochastic Systems

User Panagiotis Tsiotras, Georgia Tech .

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:15-15:15

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Title to be confirmed

User Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

User David Burt, MIT.

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

House JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

Neuromorphic sensing and computing in today’s AI landscape

User Yulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:15-15:15

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85153166972?pwd=bkgzN0lKejBjQ1BFSVVRbDAvbUdmUT09.

End-to-end contextual speech recognition with Tree-constrained pointer generator

User Brian Sun, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Monday 19 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

House JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

Accommodating magnitude and rate-limits in model reference adaptive control systems

User Matthew Turner, University of Southampton.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Changmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK).

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Bayesian coresets

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87012963681?pwd=bXRwNis2SW93aHhxUndScnp2MUVTQT09.

“End-to-end multi-speaker neural TTS with LLM-based prosody prediction”

User Penny Karanasou, Amazon R&D.

Monday 29 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

House JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

AI Engineering as Design Engineering: Creating User-Centric AI Systems

User Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data informativity: a new perspective on data-driven analysis and control

User Professor Kanat Camlibel, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen.

House JDB Seminar room.

Friday 12 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Sense, Think, Act: Decision and Control, from Biology to Technology

User Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

House LT6 Seminar Room.

Tuesday 09 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

House In-person for Cambridge University members only: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department.

The applications of discrete speech tokens for robust and context-aware text-to-speech synthesis

User Chenpeng Du.

Monday 11 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (zoom): https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09.

Sound Control Synthesis with Logics and Data

User Professor Alessandro Abate, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom).

New Innovative Idea on Bio Medical Research

User Makoto Kaneko, Meijo University and Osaka University..

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:15-15:15

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

User Dr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom).

Buckling instabilities in chaining bacterial colonies

User Aidan Brown, Edinburgh University.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Exploiting Structure for Scalable Design and Verification of Complex Systems

User Professor Murat Arcak, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom).

Passivity-based control of underactuated surgical robots

User Enrico Franco, Imperial College.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:15-15:15

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Cybergenetics: Theory and Implementation of genetic control systems

User Prof Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tfuCvrDgjG9WNY52TL0qsu7PqO484Pad5.

Questioning Ideas in Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning

User Guoxuan Xia (Imperial College London).

Monday 13 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Engineering, LT6, and online (zoom): https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09.

Distributed Control, Estimation and Optimization in Multi-agent Systems

User Professor Wei Ren, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Riverside.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

House Department of Engineering, LR5, and online (Zoom).

Modelling and analysis of electrical circuits with memristors for neuromorphic computing applications

User Anne-Men Huijzer, University of Groningen.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Theory of Stability Regions and its Practical Application in Online Stability Assessment of Large-Scale Power Grids

User Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Cornell University.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Samuel Eckmann.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Samuel Eckmann.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Samuel Eckmann.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Rui Xia, Edward Young.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Microbiology With Smart Microscopy

User Georgeos Hardo, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

User Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control

User Melanie Zeilinger, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

A new look at eye design

User Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away

User Changmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK.

Monday 02 October 2023, 13:30-14:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"

User Jay McClelland, Stanford University .

Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

User Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

The Work-Verse: Using scene understanding and senses augmentation for productive work.

User Eyal Ofek, Ph.D..

House CUED LR4.

Tuesday 04 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

AI for Sound

User Prof. Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

The LLM Tidal Wave

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

The LLM Tidal Wave

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26.

Distributed Learning for Scalable Collaboration in Robotic Multi-Agent Systems

User Guillaume Sartoretti, National University of Singapore (NUS).

Thursday 08 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Rui Xia and David Lui.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Will Greedy, University of Bristol.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-16:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/Microscale

User Prof Dr Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Reward Modelling

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Integrate your residuals while solving dynamic optimization problems

User Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry

User Sam Power, University of Bristol.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Extended differential balancing based model reduction for structure preservation

User Jacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Burigede Liu.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Vector-based steering control in the insect brain

User Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Alejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Neural Tangent Kernel

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Hybrid: LT6, First floor Baker building, Engineering Dept or Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89657740934?pwd=d1RUR29PenZXUlFQNVNVeU8zN2xoUT09.

Attention Forcing: Improving attention-based sequence-to-sequence models

User Qingyun Dou, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Physics-informed machine learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Marine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud).

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Causal Machine Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

CANCELLED - An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control

User Melanie Zeilinger.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Control challenges in Synthetic and Evolutionary Biology

User Harrison Steel, University of Oxford.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Design principles of complex cellular decision-making networks during cancer metastasis

User Mohit Kumar Jolly, IISc Bangalore.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Distributed Learning and Control for Networked Autonomy

User Konstantinos Gatsis, University of Oxford.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Bayesian Neural Networks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Luke Johnston, Wayne Soo.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

Microbial growth behavior and the control of protein synthesis in and out of steady state

User Jonas Cremer, Stanford University.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Offline Reinforcement Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh).

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Data-driven control of hybrid systems and Chance-Constrained optimization

User Raphael Jungers, UC Louvain.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Puria Radmard and David Liu.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil Seminars

The Philosophy of Explainable AI and Applications in Medicine

User Dr Rune Nyrup, Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Feedback system analysis: back to the future

User Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

House CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learning

User Yasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil Seminars

Promises and Challenges in Trustworthy Machine Learning Deployment, with a Criminal Justice Case Study

User Dr Miri Zilka, Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Machine Learning Group; Research Associate at King’s College; Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 06 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil Seminars

Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle

User Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle

User Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability

User Joaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Smarter materials for simpler robotics

User Andrew Conn.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

User David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

User David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

House CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Edward Young, Zahara Girones.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Generalisable 3D printing error detection and correction via neural networks

User Sebastian Pattinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour

User Juan Alvaro Gallego.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House LR3B, Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge (CB2 1PZ).

Object-Centric 3D Perception

User Prof. Angela Dai (Technical University of Munich).

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845.

Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances

User Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Andy Lin, MLG.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Rui Xia and Mate Lengyel.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

User Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

House CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

On motor intelligence for soft robots

User Cosimo Della Santina, Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherland.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

User Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Predicting generalization of ML models.

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

User Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement

User Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Physics-based modeling of deformable robots for real-time simulation and control

User Christian Duriez, Research Director at Inria Lille, France.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Zoom link available upon request..

A tutorial on diffusion models

User Emile, Sasha from CBL.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

House In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Samuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Force sensing across different length scales - from cell biology to orthopaedic surgery

User Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Sunday 30 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Multivariable Control in 40 Minutes

User Prof. Jan Maciejowski, Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, Cambridge University.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

User Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jake Stroud and David Liu.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 .

Random walks, self-reinforcement and neurons

User Daniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Monday 24 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Sensorimotor Control of Robotic Wearable technologies

User Tamar Makin, MRC CBU at the University of Cambridge.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

User Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Hybrid: LT6, First floor Baker building, Engineering Dept or Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Multi-Head State Space Model for Sequence Modeling

User Yassir Fathullah, Speech Group, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

User Roman Novak, Google Brain.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge (CB2 1PZ).

Self-supervised Learning from Images, Videos, and a single Image plus Augmentations

User Dr. Yuki M. Asano (University of Amsterdam).

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 16:30-17:30

House Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge (CB2 1PZ).

Modeling Light for View Synthesis

User Dr. Ben Mildenhall (Google Research).

Friday 26 August 2022, 11:00-12:00

House https://zoom.us/j/6492509351?pwd=U0hoSzJ0anlhRGhzYVFmTzltNk9wZz09 (meeting ID: 649 250 9351 / passcode: 7mu5ZJ).

Analysis by synthesis for interpretable image collection analysis

User Dr. Mathieu Aubry (Tenured Researcher at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech).

Tuesday 26 July 2022, 14:00-15:30

House Hybrid: JDB Seminar Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

What are the unsolved problems in Conversation Design?

Hybrid meeting. If you'd like to talk with Cathy after the talk over sandwiches please contact Kate Knill kmk1001@cam.ac.uk.

User Cathy Pearl, Google.

Monday 18 July 2022, 11:00-12:00

House https://zoom.us/j/6492509351?pwd=U0hoSzJ0anlhRGhzYVFmTzltNk9wZz09 (meeting ID: 649 250 9351 / passcode: 7mu5ZJ).

Synthetics with Digital Humans

User Dr. Erroll Wood (Staff Software Engineer at Google).

Friday 08 July 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

User Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Controlling imperfect robot swarms

User Hector Garcia de Marina, Universidad de Granada.

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

User Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89002493651?pwd=B_2gKl7va_h0CQ9yoMPSbn2ifYLGi4.1.

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

User Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

User Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

House JBD seminar room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear Bandits

User Yuzhen Qin, University of California, Riverside.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

House Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84968458381?pwd=TWM5ZkF2bjdBM09jaVlJZHRUTFlFUT09.

Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study

User Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jakub Onysk and Yul Kang.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

House Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Distributed Control of DC Microgrids with Flexible Structure

User Mahdieh S. Sadabadi, Queen Mary University of London.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Confidence estimation for attention-based encoder-decoder models for speech recognition

This talk will be both online (zoom) and offline (CBL Meeting Room)

User Qiujia Li (University of Cambridge).

Monday 06 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Deciphering speech: a top-down approach to zero-resource speech recognition

This talk will be both online (zoom) and offline (JDB Seminar Room)

User Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh).

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

User Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and Wayne Soo.

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

Fundamental Limits of Learning with Feedforward and Recurrent Neural Networks

User Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Friday 27 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Size-dependence of switching and stable behavior in biochemical systems

User Monika Jozsa, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 2376 0684 Passcode: 986863).

Analysis and design of bio-inspired indecision-breaking decision makers

User Alessio Franci, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inference

User Wen-Hao Zhang.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84829493214?pwd=HI3JJJ8nrt6O8AELEzbXvT8ZoBj51t.1.

Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks

User Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley.

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

House JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Computational Imaging and Sensing: Theory and Applications

User Prof. Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College London.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.

User David Burt, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 892 4602 0075 Passcode: 913765).

Weak Control for Human-in-the-loop Systems

User Masaki Inoue, Keio University.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Bests of ICLR

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 832 4377 0774 Passcode: 684832).

On Minimax Adaptive Control

User Anders Rantzer, Lund University.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 837 4007 0422 Passcode: 081031).

Passivity, Monotonicity, and Network Optimization: New Perspectives for Network Systems Analysis

User Daniel Zelazo, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87988930234?pwd=eHRGTHFtUE9UL0pJOWNtdDF2VDN2UT09.

Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination

User University of Cambridge.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

User Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 825 7950 4541 Passcode: 123551).

Dance-inspired investigation of human locomotor coordination

User Praneeth Namburi, MIT.

Thursday 14 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User David Liu and Edward Young.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 13:30-15:00

House Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec

This talk will be on zoom

User Neil Zeghidour (Google).

Monday 04 April 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 3342 6333 Passcode: 367773).

Cybergenetics: A control theory for living cells

User Corentin Briat, ETH-Zürich.

Thursday 31 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

User Emiel Hoogeboom.

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 0420 7880 Passcode: 578888).

Advanced Sliding Mode Control

User Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

An Overview of AI Alignment

User Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

User Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

SpeechBrain: Unifying Speech Technologies and Deep Learning With an Open Source Toolkit

This talk will be on zoom

User Titouan Parcollet (Avignon University).

Monday 14 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

House Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 842 0121 0459 Passcode: 338605).

Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contracts

User Bart Besselink, University of Groningen.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Introduction to differential privacy

User Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Flavia Mancini and Finn Ashley.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:30-15:00

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 839 0458 8067 Passcode: 572898).

Learning-based control of soft robots

User Thomas George-Thuruthel, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom: Meeting ID: 875 1060 6963, Passcode: 661347).

Data-driven stabilization of nonlinear polynomial systems with noisy data

User Meichen Guo, University of Groningen.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Retrieval Augmented NLP

User Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Saddle-point dynamics, non-expansive semiflows, and necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence

User Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Circuits and Interpretability

User Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Optimal Transport Metrics

User Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jake Stroud and Michal Wojcik.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:30-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Learned Compression

User Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Epidemic mitigation through testing and optimal urban mobility

User Muhammad Umar B Niazi, KTH.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:30-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

User Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

AI Safety

User Neel Alex.

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Online-only.

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Contraction and Convexity, Robustness and Regularisation

For the Zoom link to this talk, please e-mail tbb29@cam.ac.uk

User Prof. Ian Manchester, University of Sydney.

Thursday 09 December 2021, 09:00-10:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Daniel Turner-Evans and Hannah Haberkern.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 15:00-16:30

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Towards a Theory of Energy Conversion

User Prof. Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Energy-Based Models

User Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Unsupervised Speech Disentanglement for Speech Style Transfer

This talk will be on zoom

User Kaizhi Qian (IBM).

Monday 29 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Connectivity inference in visual cortex and characterization of contrast-suppressed cells

User Simon Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Title to be confirmed

User Dr. Henk van Waarde, ETH Zurich.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Georgia Turner and Falvia Mancini.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:30-15:00

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Modeling human sensorimotor control for better control of surgical robots

User Prof. Ilana Nisky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / University of Cambridge.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Deep Kernels

User Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Distributed Optimal Secondary Frequency Control for Power Systems With Delay Independent Stability

User Dr. Mengmou Li, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yashar Ahmadian and Gido van de Ven.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:30

House Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Cross-corpora experiments of automatic proficiency assessment and error detection for spoken English

This talk will be on zoom

User Stefano Bannò (University of Trento).

Monday 08 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09.

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

User Yixin Wang.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

House LR 11, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

A deterministic least squares approach for simultaneous input and state estimation

User Greg Gakis, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML

User Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

User Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yul Kang and Wayne Soo.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

House Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Machines that can read lips

This talk will be on zoom

User Pingchuan Ma (Imperial College London).

Monday 25 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Planning Meeting + PI Presentations

User CBL and Computer Lab PIs.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Guillaume Hennequin and Kris Jensen.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

House Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87426783837?pwd=akx4ZWZMYVZML2ZoOWRlYzdRaTd6dz09.

Generative Speech Separation based on Pitch Information

This talk will be on zoom

User Dr Xiang Li, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Monday 11 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Marine Schimel and David Liu.

Tuesday 28 September 2021, 14:00-15:30

House https://cuhk-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/91529611509?pwd=WFBqeFdVc3J1cE9rV2NaMXJtM2RQQT09.

Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal Models

User Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt.

Friday 24 September 2021, 14:00-15:00

Closing The Gap Between Theory and Experiments in The Design of Biomolecular Feedback Circuits

Zoom meeting link to be released

User Noah Olsman, Harvard University.

Thursday 05 August 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85184505624?pwd=WnhWZWR1SjhxUXFDOWtPT2c2cG90Zz09.

CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina Savin

User Cristina Savin, New York University.

Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Prosody transfer evaluation and temporal prosody control in speech synthesis

This seminar will take place on zoom

User Papercup.

Tuesday 06 July 2021, 12:00-13:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84626937837?pwd=RC95RTdybkRlNHhOcThjclQzYUxkdz09.

CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal Pfister

User Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.

Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Combining two mechanisms to produce neural firing rate homeostasis

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97625047934

User Paul Miller, Brandeis University.

Thursday 01 July 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and Georgia Turner.

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Low-resource expressive text-to-speech using data augmentation

User Dr Thomas Merritt, Amazon.

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Spiking Control Systems

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93178617889

User Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 24 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Automatic Speech Recognition in a State-of-Flux

User Ralf Schlüter, RWTH Aachen.

Tuesday 22 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Graphical Nonlinear System Analysis

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96507147724

User Tom Chaffey, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yashar Ahmadian and Wayne Soo.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89542469691?pwd=bVJjdXJGd3BkaDk1SHk3a1dLZzlZUT09.

CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-Velez

User Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes

User Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Time-domain multi-channel speech separation and extraction

This talk will be on zoom.

User Jisi Zhang, University of Sheffield.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84495932262?pwd=MlFJL3Z3c1JmenFOY2xJQTNPSzdsQT09.

CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class.

User David Duvenaud, University of Toronto.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Capacity and errors in classification of object manifolds

User Uri Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Thursday 03 June 2021, 10:00-11:15

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

The Statistical Finite Element Method

User Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Mate Lengyel and Jasmine Stone.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Long Sequence-to-Sequence Summarization: Efficient Transformer Models & Complementary Techniques

This talk will be on zoom.

User Potsawee Manakul, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Audio-Visual Learning: Challenges and New Approaches

This talk will be on zoom

User Dr Jie Pu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84960287802?pwd=N1pTZGpKMjhhMTVVV1RNSS9Gc3Jqdz09.

CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical Designers

User Shakir Mohamed, Deepmind.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Best of ICLR

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Automatic Assessment Systems for the Spoken CALL Shared Tasks

This talk will be held on zoom

User Mengjie Qian, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Zahara Girones and Ivan Tomic.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep Learning

User Mark van der Wilk, Imperial College London.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

User Andrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81961210430?pwd=cUZGbzU4NzJickd5THlsYzJ4cmlndz09.

Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian Processes

User Théo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin).

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep Learning

User Andrew Gordon Wilson.

Friday 16 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation

User Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Distribution and regulation of ion channels in neurons: Quantitative studies of global protein transport and homeostatic synaptic scaling

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99231423419

User Adriano Bellotti, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 08 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning

User James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yul Kang and Jonathan So.

Tuesday 06 April 2021, 15:00-16:30

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proof

User Nicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Generalized Nash equilibrium seeking under partial information

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96326600203

User Sergio Grammatico, TU Delft.

Thursday 25 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream Tasks

User Yaniv Yacoby, Harvard University.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jake Stroud and Marine Schimel.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Gaussian Processes I have Known

User Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Combination of Deep Speaker Embeddings for Diarisation and Discriminative Neural Clustering for Speaker Diarisation

Seminar on zoom

User Brian Sun, Quija Li, Florian Kreyssig, Cambridge University Speech Research Group.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

The role of space in evolution: insights from microbial and viral expansions

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99083035008

User Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Causal Representation Learning

User Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jascha Achterberg and Kris Jensen.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Natural Language Interpretation in Dialogue Systems

Seminar on zoom

User Dr Svetlana Stoyanchev, Speech Technology Group, Toshiba CRL.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Long-Range Transformers

User Valerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Interpretable representation learning for speech and audio signals

Seminar on zoom

User Dr Purvi Agrawal, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Microsoft India.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Information transfer from biological to analog microcircuits

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97349674751

User Prof. Alain Nogaret, University of Bath.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Inference in Stochastic Processes

User Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User David Liu and Jeroen Olieslagers.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 15:00-16:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Semi-supervised Learning for Low-resource Multilingual and Multimodal Speech Processing with Machine Speech Chain

Seminar on zoom

User Prof Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Stabilization of Discrete-Time Switched Affine Systems and their Applications in Power Electronics

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/98109940596

User Dr. Lucas Egidio, Université Catholique de Louvain.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Fairness in AI

User Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Should Ensemble Members Be Calibrated?

Seminar on zoom

User Dr Xixin Wu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Variational Bayes as Surrogate Regression

User Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Tackling Multispeaker Conversation Processing based on Speaker Diarization and Multispeaker Speech Recognition

Seminar on zoom

User Prof Shinji Watanabe, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Stability of Optimisation-based Control: Brief Review and New Results

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93349961156

User Wen-Hua Chen, Loughborough University.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

Selection of Talks from Interspeech 2020

Seminar on zoom

User Yiting 'Edie' Lu, Vyas Raina, Qingyun Dou, Cambridge University Speech Research Group.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Data-driven control à la Finsler and Yakubovich

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92943573797

User Henk van Waarde, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits

User Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research).

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Meta-reinforcement learning

User Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

House Online on Zoom (recorded).

A theory for Hebbian Learning in recurrent E-I networks

User Samuel Eckmann (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

Friday 18 December 2020, 09:00-10:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Best of NeurIPS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Calvin Kao and Marine Schimel.

Tuesday 15 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computing

User Matthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Identification and model reduction of complex network systems

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93541687585

User Dr. Xiaodong Cheng, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Neural Processes

User Andrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Gido van de Jen.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

House Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94591123432?pwd=bUJObFZ3UnFYLy9pWENDcS9aYUZqUT09.

Transformer: the 3rd generation neural network acoustic models for ASR and its application at Facebook

Please note change of time from original post to 3-4pm

User Yongqiang Wang, Facebook.

Monday 30 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

A canonical brain computation: from mechanism to purpose

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99373703786

User Dr. Yashar Ahmadian, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Large-scale sequential experimentation

User Wessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

A Digital Twin for Controlling Industrial Processes

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/98082715567

User Dr. Amritam Das, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

User Robert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jasmine Stone (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 15:00-16:30

Electronics on the Brain

User Prof. George Malliaras, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimisation

User Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:05-12:30

Self-Healing Codes

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92275948382

User Dr. Michael Rule, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet.

Best Papers from ICML 2020

User Reading group participants.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Understanding and engineering biological networks using timelapse microfluidic microscopy

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93507110597

User Somenath Bakshi, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

An Optimal Control Approach to Covid-19

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97430090424

User Prof. Jan Maciejowski, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yul Kang and Wayne Soo.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 15:00-16:30

House Online on google meets.

Cognitive switches and functional reprogramming of sensory cortex

User Abhishek Banerjee, Newcastle University.

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and David Liu.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 15:00-16:30

House Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link).

Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities

User Andrey Malinin, Yandex Research.

Wednesday 22 July 2020, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yashar Ahmadian.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

House https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

Active Learning

User Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training -- Agriforwards CDT (CAMBRIDGE)

Automation through Grower-reprogrammable Robotics

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0b0V1n26TbmUi8ryUGmKdw

User Dr Matthew Howard, King's College London.

House https://youtu.be/NuCSjN2GK18.

Friday 19 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

User Gergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Nonlinear resonance and excitability in interconnected systems

User Ilario Cirillo, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department.

System Identification of Neuronal Behaviors

User Thiago Burghi, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department).

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department..

On feedback control of switches and oscillators based on dominance theory

User Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

A mathematical theory of deep neural networks

Postponed due to COVID-19

User Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Friday 22 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department..

Geometric Thinking in Engineering and Applied Sciences

User Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Tradeoffs in biological optimisation

User Dhruva Raman, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Title to be confirmed

Postponed due to COVID-19

User Prof Mustafa Khammash.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Hierarchical Robust Performance Analysis of Uncertain Large Scale Systems

User Khaled Laib, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

House https://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

Best of ICLR 2020

User (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

House https://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

Differentiable Planning

User Will Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

User Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

User Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

House https://meet.google.com/hhq-zqtq-siq.

Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep Learning

User Andrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

House https://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh.

Strategic Classification

User Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

House https://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg.

Machine Learning on Sets

User (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

Tuesday 07 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

House Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing Flows

User Vincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

House Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

World Models

User Dr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Federated Learning

User Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Xizi Li (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play

User wellman@umich.edu.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

An overview of Research and Robotics at Google Deepmind

User Francesco Nori, Deepmind.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

User Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Marine Schimel.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Marine Schimel.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Exploiting Sparsity in Semidefinite and Sum of Squares Programming

User Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Computer Science and technology, Lecture Theatre 2.

Soft Aerial Robotics for Digital Infrastructure Systems

User Mirko Kovac, Imperial College.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Kernel Mean Embeddings

User Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

House James Dyson Building, Seminar Room.

Development of sensors for soft material structures

User Frank Clemens, EMPA, Switzerland.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Intellectual Debt and the Death of the Programmer

User Prof Neil Lawrence.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Integral quadratic constraints for asynchronous sampled-data links

User Michael Cantoni, University of Melbourne.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Neural Tangent Kernel

User Adria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Wayne Soo (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports

User Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regression

User Thomas Schön, Uppsala University.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

User Zack Lipton, CMU.

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Networks of Nonsmooth Oscillators & Applications in Neuroscience

User Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

On the Stability and the Uniform Propagation of Chaos Properties of Ensemble Kalman-Bucy Filters

User Prof Pierre Del Moral, INRIA.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Kris Torp Jensen.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Reliability function near the zero error capacity

User Dr Marco Dalai, University of Brescia.

Monday 09 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

House James Dyson Building, Teaching Room, main Engineering site.

Neuroevolutionary approaches to generating increasingly intelligent behaviours in virtual creatures / (simulated) robots

User Alastair Channon, University of Keele.

Friday 06 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (Dyson Centre Department of Engineering).

Information and Decision-Making

User Prof Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire).

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:30-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR 12.

Sliding Modes for Estimation: theory and practice

User Sarah Spurgeon, University College London.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Lie Group Machine Learning and Natural Gradient from Information Geometry

User Dr Frederic Barbaresco, THALES Land and Air Systems.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Scalable Gaussian Processes

User David Burt, Andrew Foong.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Adriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

House LR11, Department of Engineering.

Gradient-based Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo

User Dr Michalis Titsias, DeepMind.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Data Science: From System Identification to (Deep) Learning and Big Data

User Lennart Ljung, Linköping University.

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Biologically realistic mean-field models of neuronal populations

User Alain Destexhe, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France..

Thursday 28 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

On Nucleic Acid Feedback Controllers

User Nuno Paulino, University of Warwick.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probabilistic Programming

User Hong Ge and John Bronskill.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Learning and retaining tasks in redundant brain circuits

User Timothy O'Leary, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Neural Attention

User Elre Oldewage, George Hron.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Neuromorphic control

User Luka Ribar, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networks

User Omri Barak (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

User James Allingham, Omer Sella.

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Speech Recognition: What’s Left?

This talk is organised in conjunction with the IEEE Signal Processing Society for which Dr Michael Picheny is a Distinguished Industry Speaker

User Dr Michael Picheny.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes

User William Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Hyperparameter Optimisation

User Ross Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational neuroscience journal club

User Monika Jozsa.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Neural information processing during behavior and sleep

User Mayank Mehta (UCLA).

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"

User John Bronskill, Marton Havasi.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and Efficiency

User Haitham Ammar, Huawei.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 10:00-11:00

Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time series

User Vincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich.

Monday 28 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language Explanations

User Oana Camburu, University of Oxford.

Friday 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

A tool for analysis and synthesis of heterogeneous multi-agent systems

User Jin Gyu Lee, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical Models

User Vidhi Lalchand.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Michael Rule.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Interaction between humans and with robot

User Etienne Burdet, Imperial College London.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

Synchronization of heterogeneous agents via funnel coupling

User Stephan Trenn, University of Groningen.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Soft robotics: Fusing actuation with perception

User Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Dopamine as prediction error in active inference

User Rafal Bogacz (Oxford).

Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Random Caching Based Transmission in Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks

User Prof. Fu-Chun Zheng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Neurotransmitter spillover modulates neuronal information transmission

User Mehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 10:00-11:00

House CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Calvin Kao.

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Long-term dynamics of synapses and representations in the mouse auditory cortex

User Prof. Simon Rumpel, University of Mainz.

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles

User Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

TBD

User Jin Gyu Lee, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Minkowski, Lyapunov, and Bellman: Inequalities and Equations for Stability and Optimal Control

User Sasa Rakovic, Beijing Institute of Technology.

Thursday 12 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution

User Dan Wetmore, PhD, Director of Clinical and Research partnerships, CTRL-labs.

Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution

User Patrick Kaifosh, PhD, Chief Science Officer, CTRL-labs.

Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA

User Rajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Wednesday 04 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep Learning

User Wesley Maddox (New York University).

Friday 23 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 1.

Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their applications to geometric optimal control theory

User Melvin Leok, University of California, San Diego.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks

User Matthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute.

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks

User Amos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 12 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational Inference

User Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia.

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3.

Automotive Control Using Non-Linear System Models With Uncertainty

User Thomas Steffen, Loughborough University.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local Competition

User Konstantinos P. Panousis.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

ad629's list

Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence – MPhil Student Presentations

User MPhil MLMI Students.

Monday 17 June 2019, 14:30-17:00

House LR3A, Inglis Building, CUED.

Simple Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Continuous State and Action Space Systems

User Prof. Rahul Jain, University of Southern California.

Monday 17 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Morphological Computation - A Potential Solution for the Control Problem in Soft Robotics

User Helmut Hauser, University of Bristol.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Dhruva Raman (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and Divisiveness

User Reza Babaei.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 15:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Stochastic Sylvester equations for output regulation of linear stochastic systems

User Giordano Scarciotti, Imperial College London.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

On indefinite damping and gyroscopic stabilization

User Tobias Damm, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Thomas Burger (Control Group).

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Limits of precision in stochastic cell biology

User Glenn Vinnicombe, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

A local weak limit approach to the study of graphical data

User Prof. Venkat Anantharam, University of California, Berkeley.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

How perception informs urgent saccadic choices: halting, acceleration, and deceleration

User Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest School of Medicine).

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

The Statistical Finite Element Method

User Prof. Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Chair of Civil Engineering, CUED.

Friday 17 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence?

User Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths.

Friday 17 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Cascade Dynamics, Multiplex Networks and Heterogeneity

User Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Particle MCMC

User Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Xizi Li (CBL).

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Deep Learning for Multifarious Speech Processing: Tackling Multiple Speakers, Microphones, and Languages

User Jonathan Le Roux, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA.

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Friday 10 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?

User Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Robust speech processing on multi-talker mixed speech

User Yanmin Qian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Friday 10 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Regulation of Ant Foraging as a Closed-Loop Excitable System

User Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Stochastic Differential Equations

User David Burt.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees

User Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Human and Robot Decision Making in Multi-Armed Bandits

User naomi@princeton.edu.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Generalisation in neural networks

User Marton Havasi.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Gido van de Ven.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making

User Prof. Naomi Leonard, Princeton.

House Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Probabilistic Reliability Management for Electric Power Systems Operation

User Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

An Overview of Normalizing Flows

User Robert Pinsler.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:00-15:30

NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs

User Abir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

Monday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Global model explainability via aggregation

User Umang Bhatt, CMU.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 16:00-16:45

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jake Stroud.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Jake Stroud.

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Sampling as Optimization

User Eric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 13:45-15:15

Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care

User David Sontag, MIT.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Ta-Chu (Calvin) Kao -- CBL.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Engineering - Lecture Theater 6.

How can speech technologies support learners to improve their skills of speaking, listen-ing, conversation and more?

User Nobuaki MINEMATSU .

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 14:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

The K-FAC method for neural network optimization

User James Martens, Google Deep Mind.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Implicit Variational Inference

User Andrew Foong (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and Approaches

User Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

Deep Reinforcement Learning: from AlphaGo to AlphaStar

User Dr David Silver, DeepMind.

Monday 04 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning

User Chaochao Lu (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortex

User Gergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Block Scaled Diagonal Dominance for Applications in Control Theory and Optimisation

User Aivar Sootla, University of Oxford.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks

User Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Unleashing your inner maker

User Prof. Daniela Rus, MIT.

Monday 18 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSE

User Marco Gallieri, NNAISENSE.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Neural circuit mechanisms of learning and attentional task-switching during visually-guided behaviour in mice

User Dr Jasper Poort ( Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

Friday 15 February 2019, 10:00-11:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Contraction Analysis of Monotone Systems

User Yu Kawano, University of Groningen.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Online Meta-Learning

User Massimiliano Pontil, University College London.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Logical Uncertainty

User Adrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Laurence Aitchison (CBL).

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replay

User Dr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford.

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on Manifolds

User Taco Cohen.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Latent Variable Models for Bayesian Inference with Stable Distributions and Processes

User Marina Riabiz, King's College London.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 15:30-16:30

Stein Discrepancy

User Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

The stability of systems in stochastic feedback loops

User Roy Smith, ETH Zürich .

Friday 25 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor).

Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems

User Tom Everitt (DeepMind).

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Daniel Acosta-Kane (CBL).

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Local and global synaptic credit assignment

User Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol).

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Stochastic modeling and control of power grids under uncertainty

User Alessandro Zocca, California Institute of Technology.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms

User Hoda Heidari.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Tracking performance of time-varying nonconvex optimization with application to OPF

User Steven Low, Caltech.

Wednesday 09 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models

User Martin Tegner.

Tuesday 18 December 2018, 10:30-11:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Control across scales by positive and negative feedback

User Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Robustness and model reduction of dominant systems

User Alberto Padoan, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

House LR12, Baker Building, CUED.

On optimal sampling in off-the-grid sparse regularisation.

User Dr Clarice Poon, DAMTP & Peterhouse.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Distributed price-based control of flexible electrical loads

User Antonio De Paola, University of Bath.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

User Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Marcelo Mattar (CBL).

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus".

User Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London.

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Natural gradient in deep neural networks

User Alberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Dept., CBL Seminar Room (4th floor).

A brain-machine interface for locomotion driven by subspace dynamics

User Karen E. Schroeder, Columbia University.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Neural mechanisms of model-based planning in the rat

User Kevin Miller, University College London.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Estimating low-rank matrices via approximate message passing

User Ramji Venkataramanan, CUED.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Control Design Using Differential Games – From Centralised to Decentralised Control

User Thulasi Mylvaganam, Imperial College London.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Graph Neural Networks

User Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Michael Rule (Control Group).

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Defending Against Adversarial Attacks

User Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference

User Robert Pinsler, Calvin Kao.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Adriana Perez-Rotondo (Control group).

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Engineering - Lecture Room 12.

Kōrero Māori - indigenous language revitalisation powered by machine learning

User Keoni Mahelona & Peter-Lucas Jones.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Optimal control of ballistic movements in a thalamo-cortical circuit model

User Guillaume Hennequin, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning Algorithms

User Mihaela van der Schaar .

Thursday 11 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Fastest Convergence for Reinforcement Learning

User Prof. Sean Meyn, University of Florida.

Monday 08 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Alberto Bernacchia (CBL).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Reactivation in biological and artificial neural networks

User Gido van de Ven, PhD; Baylor College of Medicine.

Tuesday 11 September 2018, 10:00-11:00

House Engineering Department, Board Room on the 2nd Floor.

Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answers

User Been Kim, Google Brain.

Monday 10 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

House dyson teaching room (TBC).

Constraint-based causal Discovery from NOnstationary/heterogeneous Data (CD-NOD)

User Biwei Huang, CMU.

Friday 24 August 2018, 11:00-12:00

House JDG-14, James Dyson Building Meeting Room, Ground Floor.

How to use particle filtering methods to solve numerical optimization problems ?

User Bin Liu.

Friday 10 August 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

General teacher-student learning for automatic speech recognition

User Jeremy Wong, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 31 July 2018, 12:00-13:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Guillaume Hennequin (CBL).

Tuesday 17 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models

User Emtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo.

Monday 16 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models

User George Tucker, Google Brain.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Yul Kang (CBL).

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Monitoring and Fault-tolerant Control for Large-Scale Interconnected Systems

User Francesca Boem, University College London.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

User Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam).