Curriculum Vitae

Current Positions

  • Google DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK
  • Director of Science & Innovation—Grand Challenges (Environment & Sustainability), The Alan Turing Institute
  • Visiting Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Professional History

  • Since 01/2024: Director of Science & Innovation—Grand Challenges (Environment & Sustainability), The Alan Turing Institute, UK
  • Since 10/2019: Google DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK
  • 10/2018 – 12/2019: Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
  • 10/2016 – 12/2019: Scientific Advisor, PROWLER.io
  • 07/2015 – 09/2018: Lecturer, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
  • 10/2014 – 06/2015: Imperial College Research Fellow, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
  • 09/2013 – 09/2014: Departmental Research Fellow, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
  • 12/2011 – 08/2013: Group Leader, Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Germany
  • 02/2010 – 12/2011: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • 02/2010 – 04/2011: Adjunct Researcher, Intel Labs, Seattle, WA, USA

Academic History

Prizes, Awards, Fellowships

Keynotes, Tutorials and Plenary Talks

Outreach and Public Understanding of Science

In the News

Memberships and Committees

Community Service

Conference Co-Organization

Workshop Co-Organization

Mentoring

Area Chair, Action Editor, Associate Editor

  • 2023: JMLR
  • 2022: JMLR
  • 2021: ICML, JMLR
  • 2020: ICLR, NeurIPS
  • 2019: NeurIPS
  • 2018: AISTATS, ICML
  • 2017: CoRL
  • 2016: NIPS
  • 2015: ICRA, NIPS
  • 2014: ICRA
  • 2013: ACML

Program Committee

  • 2019: CoRL
  • 2017: RSS
  • 2015: RLDM
  • 2014: AAAI, ACML
  • 2013: ADPRL, IJCAI, RSS
  • 2012: ACML, ECML/PKDD, ICPRAM, RSS
  • 2011: RSS
  • 2010: AAAI, RSS

Reviewing

  • 2019: ICML, CoRL, NeurIPS
  • 2017: JMLR, NIPS, RSS
  • 2016: AISTATS, EWRL, IJRR, JMLR, MLJ, RSS
  • 2015: AISTATS, ICML, JMLR, Cambridge University Press
  • 2014: AISTATS, Automatica, ICML, JBHI, MLJ, NIPS, RAS
  • 2013: ICRA, IROS, KI Magazine, MLJ, NIPS, Springer
  • 2012: AISTATS, Humanoids, ICML, IEEE-TPAMI, NIPS, Springer
  • 2011: CDC, ECC, ICML, ICRA, IROS, MLJ, NIPS
  • 2010: ACC, AISTATS, IJRR
  • 2009: AURO, CDC, ICML, ICRA, SCI, IEEE-TPAMI
  • 2008: Adaptive Behavior, IPSN, NIPS, RO-MAN
  • 2007: IEE Electronic Letters

I also frequently review grant proposals (e.g., EU, national funding agencies).

Former Students and Research Fellows