I am a third year Ph.D student at Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, working with Charles Sutton. Before this, I completed my master supervised by Zoubin Ghahramani at Cambridge University Engineering Department. Research topics I'm interested in include approximate inference, (deep) generative models, probabilistic programming - together with their applications to fields like neuroscience and intuitive physics. Mentioning interests, I also love cats.
I'm a member of the core team of the Turing probabilistic programming language. I write efficient and robust software on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods in Julia (AdvancedHMC.jl).
Turing.jl: Bayesian inference with probabilistic programming. (GitHub, website)
AdvancedHMC.jl: Robust, modular and efficient implementation of advanced Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithms. (GitHub)
DensityRatioEstimation.jl: A Julia package for density ratio estimation. (GitHub)
Presenter for "The Turing Language for Probabilistic Programming." at Julia Lab, MIT, MA, USA in June 2019
Presenter for "Variational Russian Roulette for Deep Bayesian Nonparametrics." at MIT-IBM Research, MIT, CA, USA in June 2019.
Presenter for "Variational Russian Roulette for Deep Bayesian Nonparametrics." at The 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, Long Beach, CA, USA in June 2019.
Copresenter for "The Turing Language for Probabilistic Programming." at The Inaugural International Conference on Probabilistic Programming, MIT, MA, USA in October 2018
Presenter for "Turing: a Fresh Approach to Probabilistic Programming." at JuliaCon 2017, Berkeley, CA, USA in June 2017 (video)
Google Summer of Code / Mentor
Jun. 2019 - Aug. 2019
University of Edinburgh / Tutor for Probabilistic Modelling and Reasoning
Jan. 2019 - Apr. 2019, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
University of Edinburgh / Teaching Assistant for Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
Sep. 2018 - Dec. 2018, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Apple / Machine Learning Intern
May 2018 - Aug. 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom
University of Edinburgh / Teaching Assistant for Design Informatics
Oct. 2017 - Dec. 2017, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
University fo Cambridge / Research Assistant at Machine Learning Group
Nov. 2016 - Jul. 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Brain Charity / Voluntary Software Developer
Aug. 2014 - Jul. 2015, Liverpool, United Kingdom
University of Edinburgh / Ph.D in Informatics: Machine Learning
Sep. 2017 - PRESENT, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
University of Cambridge / M.Phil in Machine Learning, Speech & Language Technology
Oct. 2015 - Sep. 2016, Cambridge, United Kingdom
University of Liverpool / B.Eng in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Sep. 2013 - Jun. 2015, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University / B.Eng in Computer Science & Technology
Sep. 2011 - Jun. 2013, Suzhou, China
Mobile Robot Control using ROS (poster)
DBD Plasma Reactor Power Monitoring System
Wireless Brain-Computer Interface for Game Control (video)
FlatShare (code)
