Dr David MacKay

Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
Email: mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk
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David MacKay studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, before heading off to the USA to complete a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech. In 1992 he returned to Cambridge as a Royal Society research fellow at Darwin College. In 1995 he became a university lecturer in the Department of Physics, and in 1999 he was promoted to a Readership in Natural Philosophy. Dr. MacKay's research interests are centred on applications of information theory and Bayesian methods, including error-correcting codes and machine learning.