Timothy Hospedales
Professional Bio: Timothy Hospedales is a full Professor at University of Edinburgh, where he leads the Machine Intelligence Group; Principal Scientist at Samsung AI Research Centre, Cambridge, where he heads the machine learning and data intelligence group; and Alan Turing Institute Fellow. He is an Associate Editor of PAMI, and has served as Area Chair of several major venues including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, and program chair of BMVC 2018. His research interests include data efficient machine learning and generalisation especially via meta-learning and neuro-symbolic approaches, with applications in computer vision, natural language, robot control and beyond. He has published numerous papers on few-shot learning, multi-task learning, domain adaptation, domain generalisation, meta-learning, and so on; and co-organized tutorials at ACM Multimedia and ECCV. His work has won prizes or nominations at events including ICML, BMVC, ICPR and ICML AutoML and been reported in media such as BBC News and New Scientist.
T&T Bio: Timothy grew up in St Anns, Port of Spain, and graduated from St Mary’s College in 1999 with A-levels in Maths, Further Maths and Physics before studying Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.