Seminars

All seminars will take place on Friday's from 12noon - 1:00 pm unless otherwise stated.  These will be done remotely in HT2021.

Hilary Term 2021

Week 1 - Friday 22nd January

Professor Alessandro Abate (Department of Computer Science) - Automated and sound verification and control of dynamical models — learning meets logic 

Week 2- Friday 29th January

Sergey Tulyakov (Lead Research Scientist at Snap Inc.) - Representations for Content Creation, Manipulation and Animation

Week 3 - Friday 5th February

Professor Noa Zilberman (Department of Engineering Science) - Do Switches Dream of Machine Learning?

Week 4 - Friday 12th February

Professor Gilles Louppe (University of Liege (Belgium)) - The frontier of simulation-based inference

Week 5 - Friday 19th February

Michael Bronstein – (Imperial/Twitter) - Geometric Deep Learning: the Erlangen Programme of ML

Week 6 - Friday 26th February

Alison Lowndes - (Nvidia) - Omniverse (and ISAAC): the unifying simulation platform.

Week 7 - Friday 5th March

Dr Alhussein Fawzi – (DeepMind) - Robustness and geometry of deep networks

Week 8 - Friday 12th March

Professor Angela Schoellig (University of Toronto) - POSTPONED

Michaelmas Term 2020

Week 1 - Friday 16th October

Peter Ondruska (Head of Research @ Lyft Level 5) - New Frontiers of Self-Driving

Week 2 - Friday 23rd October

Maurice Fallon (Oxford Robotics Institute) - Real-time 3D Navigation and Perception for Dynamic Mobile Robots

Week 3 - Friday 30th October

Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham (DeepMind Research Scientist) - Generalized black-box verification via randomized smoothing

Week 4 - Friday 6th November

Alberto Rizzoli – (V7 labs) - Computer Vision in Industry - Turning academic work into impact

Week 5 - Friday 13th November

Stefano Albrecht – (University of Edinburgh) - Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Systems

Week 6 - Friday 20th November

Reuben Binns (Computer Science) - Human judgements in AI loops

Week 7 - Friday 27th November

Federico Passarin (AirBus) - Spacecraft attitude control: challenges and the role of machine learning 

Week 8 - Friday 4th December

Christian Rupprecht (VGG) - Visual Learning with Reduced Supervision

Hilary Term 2020

Week 1 - Friday 24^th January

Professor Alessandro Abate (Department of Computer Science) - "Automated, Sound and Scalable Analysis and Control of Dynamical Models with SAT and SMT"

Week 2 - Friday 31^st January

Coorous Mohtadi (Mathworks) - "Are you Ready for AI? Is AI Ready for you?"

Week 3 - Friday 7^th February

Professor Ingmar Posner (Oxford Robotics Institute) - "Robots Thinking Fast and Slow"

Week 4 - Friday 14^th February

Robert Birke (ABB) - "Towards Industrial Autonomy"

Week 5 - Friday 21^st February

Jeffrey Hawke and Corina Gurau (Wayve) - "Learned Urban Driving"

Week 6 - Friday 28^th February

Pia Dreiseitel (Continental) - With Computer Vision to Vision Zero - A World Without Traffic Accidents"

Week 7 - Friday 6^th March

Steve Spittle & Tom Jones (Satellite Catapult) - Driving Innovation with Geospatial Information

Week 8 - Friday 13^th March

Professor Nick Hawes – (Oxford Robotics Institute) - "Mission Planning under Uncertainty for Autonomous Robots"

Week 9 - Friday 20^th March - CANCELLED

Alison Lowndes (Nvidia) - "Fuelling the Artificial Intelligence Revolution with Gaming"

Michaelmas Term 2019

Week 1 - Friday 18th October

Professor Yarin Gal – Head of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) Research Group, Department of Computer Science - "Bayesian deep learning. In space"

Week 2 - Friday 25th October (Host Xiowen Dong)

Professor Mike Rabbat (Facebook AI Research in Montreal) - "Gossip Algorithms for Distributed Learning"

Week 3 - Friday 1st November

Professor Pawan Mudigonda – Optimisation for Vision & Learning Group (OVAL) – Department of Engineering Science - "Optimization for Robust Deep Laarning"

Week 4 - Friday 8th November (Host Varun Kanade)

Alex Davies (Google) - "AlphaZero - A case study"

Week 5 - Friday 15th November – 11:00 – 12:00 NOTE TIME (Host Shimon Whiteson)

Hado van Hasselt (Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind) - "Overconfidence in Model-based and Model-free Reinforcement Learning"

Week 6 - Friday 22nd November (Host Carissa Veilz)

Gemma Galdon Clavell (Eticas Research & Consulting) - Ethics on the Ground. "How Eticas Audits the Algorithmic Society"

Week 7 - Friday 29th November

No seminar

Week 9 - Monday 9th December (LR2) (Host Andrew Zisserman)

Professor Alyosha Efros (University of Berkeley, California)