A Talk for the 2021 ICML Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with AI. I am extremely grateful to the organisers for the invitation. This is the text of the talk and also has links to the video. Hello everyone and … Continue reading Harnessing Machine Learning to Achieve Net Zero
An Invited Talk for NACCL-HLT 2021, 8 June 2021. I am extremely grateful to the organisers for the invitation, and a special thanks to Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer who hosted the Q&A session that was so much fun. This is the … Continue reading Generating Reality: Technical and Social Explorations in Generative Machine Learning Research
This piece was a contribution to the wonderful book by Gavin Brown, Chapter X in How to Get Your PhD: A Handbook for the Journey (OUP, 2021). It shares one view on how we, as scientists, can respond to diversity and inclusion, and hopefully interesting to everyone (beyond the early-career scientist). A letter to the new research student. You are entering a world of knowledge and research that is constantly changing. For so many of us, that is its allure. Yet, for all our investigations into the natural, informational, mechanistic, or structural world, nature does not shape the world of … Continue reading Inventing Ourselves: Responsibility and Diversity in Research