Stephen Roberts

Stephen's main area of research lies in the theory and application of machine learning for data analysis, especially sequential data and dynamical systems. He has particular interest in the development of machine learning theory to help create robust, reliable and uncertainty-aware solutions for real-world applications. Current research develops theory and methodology for application across diverse problem domains including astrophysics, environment and ecology, finance and data-centric engineering. He leads the Machine Learning Research Group, is a Professorial Fellow of Somerville College, founding Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous, Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS), Director of the Oxford ELLIS unit and was Director of the Oxford-Man Institute from 2015-2021. Stephen is Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor of Mind Foundry, PI of Oxford's Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship programme and co-I of the Intelligent Earth Centre for Doctoral Training.

News & Events

• We are hiring - Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Bioacoustic Ecological Monitoring (deadline May 22 2024)
• Stabilizing Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning from Pixels - ICML-2022 talk
• Challenges In Deploying And Monitoring Machine Learning Systems - NeurIPS Virtual Workshop, Friday, 9th of December 2022
• Recent conference acceptances, January 2022
• NeurIPS 2021 papers
• ICML and UAI acceptances 2021
• AISTATS and ICLR 2021 papers
• NeurIPS 2020 papers
• ICML 2020 papers

Outreach

• Some Public Talks

Highlighted projects

• Intelligent Earth Centre for Doctoral Training
  
• Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship programme
  
• EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous, Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS)
• Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance
  
• Oxford ELLIS unit
  
• Human-Agent Collectives - ORCHID
  
• Humbug - acoustic mosquito detection