Dr Neil Lawrence

Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science
Kilburn Building
University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

Phone: +44 161 275 6180
Fax: +44 161 275 6204

email:

Research
Projects
Publications
Group Seminars
Software
Talks

Welcome

I am a member of the Machine Learning and Optimisation Research Group. My research interests are in probabilistic models.

New Book

A new edited volume on "Learning and Inference in Computational Systems Biology" is about to be released by MIT Press. I edited it with Mark Girolami, Magnus Rattray and Guido Sanguinetti. on Learning in Computational and Systems Biology. It originally emerged from our PASCAL Thematic Programme and the follow on workshops. Get your preorders in now! The MIT Press site is here.

Lotfi Achieves Lofty Status

See here for details.

Interspeech 2009 Tutorial

For details of an Interspeech tutorial on probabilistic dimensionality reduction see here.

AISTATS 2010 in Europe!

For the first time the AISTATS conference will be held in Europe. It will take place in Sardinia from May 13th-15th 2019. If the meeting is successful further European AISTATS will be held in 2012, 2014 etc.. I am General Chair for the meeting and Yee Whye Teh and Mike Titterington are the Program Chairs.

PhD Projects

If you are interested in doing a PhD in Machine Learning you can apply to our research group.

I have a number of PhD projects available:

Book

I had the pleasure of co-editing a volume on dataset shift with Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Masashi Sugiyama and Anton Schwaighofer. You can find more details on it here.

ICML 2008 Tutorial

For details of an ICML tutorial on probabilistic dimensionality reduction see here.

Thematic Programmes

With Marc Dymetman I organised the first Thematic Programme for the European FP7 Network of Excellence PASCAL II on Leveraging Complex Prior Knowledge for Learning.

With Mark Girolami, Magnus Rattray and Guido Sanguinetti I co-organised a thematic programme for the European FP6 Network of Excellence PASCAL on Learning in Computational and Systems Biology.

Workshops

With Mauricio Alvarez I organized a Statistics and Machine Learning Interface Meeting.

With Joaquin Quiñonero Candela I organised the Bayesian Research Kitchen.

I helped out Cédric Archambeau, Ian Roulstone, John Shawe-Taylor and Andrew Stuart in organising Approximate Inference in Stochastic Processes and Dynamical Systems.

I helped out Tony Dodd and Rob Harrison in organising a 'Winter School' in Data Modelling.

I helped out Matthias Seeger, David Barber and Onno Zoeter in organising a NIPS workshop on "Approximate Bayesian Inference in Continuous/Hybrid Systems".

The Parameter Estimation in Systems Biology PASCAL workshop was co-organised by myself and Magnus Rattray. It was held in Manchester on the 28-29th March 2007.

I helped out Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Masashi Sugiyama and Anton Schwaighofer in organising a NIPS workshop on "Learning when Test and Training Inputs Have Different Distributions". See the associated book from MIT Press.

I co-organised the Gaussian Processes in Practice workshop with Joaquin Quiñonero Candela and Anton Schwaighofer.