My Group.
My group is an amazing little family of friendly, generous, smart people. We used to be all in the same place (Manchester) but we are now spread over the world.
I welcome applications for new PhDs - I strongly encourage you to read (fully) at least one of my publications before you even think of applying. I’m unlikely to return your email unless you demonstrate curiosity like this.
Current & affiliated members
Raghad Alamri
PhD student, studying ensemble diversity metrics and their relation to bias/variance decompositions and uncertainty quantification.
PhD student, studying ensemble diversity metrics and their relation to bias/variance decompositions and uncertainty quantification.
Yusuf Sulehman
Research Assistant, working on statistical learning theory.
Research Assistant, working on statistical learning theory.
Gokula Karthik
Incoming PhD student (starting Sept 2024) working on uncertainty quantification in biomarker identification, co-supervised with Kostas Sechidis from Novartis, and Michele Caprio from UoM.
Incoming PhD student (starting Sept 2024) working on uncertainty quantification in biomarker identification, co-supervised with Kostas Sechidis from Novartis, and Michele Caprio from UoM.
Dr Kostas Sechidis
Kostas is an Honorary Research Fellow in the group. He is Associate Director of Data Science at Novartis, in the Advanced Methodology & Data Science Group. He is an experienced researcher in statistical machine learning methods tailored to healthcare analytics.
Kostas is an Honorary Research Fellow in the group. He is Associate Director of Data Science at Novartis, in the Advanced Methodology & Data Science Group. He is an experienced researcher in statistical machine learning methods tailored to healthcare analytics.
Alumni
If you’d like to contact anyone below, just let me know and I’ll do my best to put you in touch.
Completed PhDs
| Who? | Year | PhD | Where are they now? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tudor Morar | 2021 | Bayesian Optimisation over Mixed Parameter Spaces | Data Scientist, Dublin. |
| Kostas Papangelou | 2020 | Assessing Treatment Effect Heterogeneity: Predictive Covariate Selection and Subgroup Identification | Data Scientist, ASML, Netherlands |
| Georgiana Neculae | 2020 | Ensemble Learning with Spiking Neural Networks | Research Scientist, BenevolentAI, London |
| Henry Reeve | 2018 | Learning in High Dimensions with Asymmetric Costs Winner, UoM CS Best Thesis award. | Lecturer, University of Bristol |
| Sarah Nogueira | 2017 | Quantifying the Stability of Feature Selection Winner, UoM CS Best Thesis award. | Staff ML Engineer Lead, Criteo, Paris |
| Nikos Nikolaou | 2016 | Cost-sensitive Boosting: A Unified Approach Winner, UoM CS Best Thesis award. | Lecturer, University College London |
| Kostas Sechidis | 2015 | Hypothesis Testing and Feature Selection in Semi-Supervised Data Winner, UoM CS Best Thesis award. | Principal Data Scientist, Novartis, Switzerland |
| Richard Stapenhurst | 2012 | Diversity, Margins, and Non-Stationary Learning | Senior Software Engineer, Google, London |
| Adam Pocock | 2012 | Feature Selection via Joint Likelihood Winner, UoM CS Best Thesis award. British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation 2013. Read the press release here. | Principal Researcher, Oracle Labs, Boston |
| Manuela Zanda | 2010 | A Probabilistic Perspective on Ensemble Diversity | Data Scientist, Arm Ltd. |
| Amir Ahmad | 2009 | Data Transformation for Decision Tree Ensembles | Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University |
Awards/prizes
| Who? | Prize |
|---|---|
| Henry Reeve | ESANN Best Student Paper Award 2017 |
| Nikos Nikolaou | ACM Best of Computing, Notable Article of 2016 |
| Nikos Nikolaou | AERFAI Summer School 2015 Best Poster Award |
| Kostas Sechidis | ECML Best Student Paper award 2014 |
| Adam Pocock | BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2013 |
| Gavin Brown | BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2004 |
Former Research Staff
| Who? | When? | Role | Where are they now? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danny Wood | 2020-2023 | EPSRC LAMBDA project | Senior MLOps Engineer, Fuzzy Labs Ltd |
| Kostas Sechidis | 2015-2018 | AstraZeneca Fellowship | Principal Data Scientist, Novartis, Switzerland |
| Nikos Nikolaou | 2016-2018 | EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow | Lecturer, University College London |
| Andrew Webb | 2017-2019 | EPSRC LAMBDA project | ML Engineer, vTime Ltd |
| Emily Turner | 2017-2019 | ESRC Domestic Abuse project | Data Scientist, Manchester |
| Tameem Adel | 2016-2017 | EPSRC LAMBDA project | Assistant Professor, Netherlands |
| Ming-Jie Zhao | 2008-2013 | EPSRC ADEPT project | Microsoft Research Asia |
| Nara Edakunni | 2010-2011 | EPSRC ADEPT project | Director, American Express, India |
| Peter Sutton | 2010-2011 | EPSRC REUNITE KTP | Director, Foxdog Studios Software. |
| Lloyd Henning | 2010-2011 | EPSRC REUNITE KTP | Director, Foxdog Studios Software. |
| Arjun Chandra | 2008-2009 | EPSRC ADEPT project | Research Scientist, GraphCore AI |
| Jeremy Singer | 2008-2011 | EPSRC iTLS project | Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow |