Dr Stephen Roberts

Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Stephen Roberts was born in London in 1965. He studied Physics at Oxford from 1983-1986 and then worked for a few years in the research department of Oxford Instruments. From 1989-1991 he researched his PhD and worked as a postdoc until 1994 when he was appointed to the faculty at Imperial College, University of London. In 1999 he moved to take up his current position in Oxford. Stephen Roberts' main area of research lies in machine learning approaches to data analysis. He has particular interests in the application of machine learning methods to problems in mathematical biology. Current research focuses on Bayesian statistics, graphical models, independent component analysis and information theory. He runs the Pattern Analysis & Machine Learning Research Group and is a fellow of Somerville College.