People

Faculty

	Director and Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning Maneesh Sahani maneesh@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Research Interests My research spans work in both single-neuron and population-level neural data modelling, inferential theories of perception and learning in the brain, and related areas of machine learning. Publications
	Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience Peter Latham pel@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Research Interests My research focuses on understanding how biologically realistic networks carry out computations. More specifically, my goal is to understand how connectivity and single neuron properties determine the ability of a network to perform computations, and how synaptic learning rules, single neuron properties, and patterns of input determine connectivity. Publications
	Professor of Machine Learning  Arthur Gretton a.gretton@ucl.ac.uk  Research Interests  A key component of AI systems is the capacity to reason about distributions of real-world objects such as images, text or high-dimensional sequences. My research addresses two core aspects of this: the ability to learn structured models that generate faithful samples of such real-world entities; the ability to reason about and test properties of high-dimensional naturalistic distributions. Publications Follow @arthurgretton
	Professor of Machine Learning  Peter Orbanz porbanz@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Research interests I study network and relational data, Bayesian nonparametrics, and exchangeability and symmetry properties. More generally, I am interested in all mathematical aspects of machine learning and pattern recognition. Publications
	Group Leader in Machine Learning applied to Neuroscience (Jointly with SWC) Andrew Saxe  a.saxe@ucl.ac.uk Research Interests  We aim to develop a mathematical toolkit suitable for analyzing and describing learning in the brain and mind. Publications Follow @SaxeLab
	Part-time Honorary Lecturer (Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge) Ferenc Huszar Research Interests I study and develop principles for learning from data, with a particular focus on deep/overparametrized models. I’m interested in representation learning, generalization, optimization and probabilistic foundations.
	Honorary Professor (Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind) Matthew Botvinick

Postdoctoral Fellows

	Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience Jaweria Amjad jaweria.amjad@ucl.ac.uk		Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience Brendan Bicknell b.bicknell@ucl.ac.uk
	GCNU-SWC Research Fellow Dario Campagner  d.campagner@ucl.ac.uk		GCNU-SWC Research Fellow George Dimitriadis g.dimitriadis@ucl.ac.uk
	Research Fellow in Machine Learning Lee Gunderson  l.gunderson@ucl.ac.uk		Research Fellow (Jointly with SWC) Sam Lewallen  s.lewallen@ucl.ac.uk
	Research Fellow in Machine Learning Zhu (Michael) Li  zhu.li@ucl.ac.uk		GCNU-SWC Research Fellow Ryan Low ucqfrlo@ucl.ac.uk
	Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience Marcel Nonnenmacher  m.nonnenmacher@ucl.ac.uk		Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience Alberto Pezzotta a.pezzotta@ucl.ac.uk
	Research Engineer Fellow Joaquin Rapela j.rapela@ucl.ac.uk		Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience Mehrdad Salmasi m.salmasi@ucl.ac.uk
	Research Fellow (Jointly with SWC) Stefano Sarao Mannelli s.saraomannelli@ucl.ac.uk		Research Fellow (Jointly with SWC) Erin Grant erin.grant@ucl.ac.uk

PhD Students

	Heishiro Kanagawa heishiro.kanagawa.17@ucl.ac.uk Gretton Group		Roman Pogodin roman.pogodin.17@ucl.ac.uk Latham Group
	Virginia Rutten virginie.rutten.17@ucl.ac.uk Sahani Group / Janelia		Lucas Simoes l.simoes.18@ucl.ac.uk Latham Group
	William Walker william.walker.18@ucl.ac.uk Sahani Group		Liang Zhou liang.zhou.18@ucl.ac.uk Latham Group
	Theodore Moskovitz theodore.moskovitz.19@ucl.ac.uk Sahani Group		Hugo Soulat hugo.soulat.19@ucl.ac.uk Sahani Group
	Liyuan Xu liyuan.jo.19@ucl.ac.uk Gretton Group		Rodrigo Carrasco rodrigo.cd.20@ucl.ac.uk Saxe Group
	Clementine Domine clementine.domine.20@ucl.ac.uk Saxe Group		William Dorrell william.dorrell.20@ucl.ac.uk Latham Group
	Kevin Huang han.huang.20@ucl.ac.uk Orbanz Group		Pierre Glaser pierre.glaser.20@ucl.ac.uk Gretton Group
	Kira Dusterwald kira.dusterwald.21@ucl.ac.uk Sahani Group		Samo Hromadka samo.hromadka.21@ucl.ac.uk Sahani Group
	Dimitri Meunier dimitri.meunier.21@ucl.ac.uk Gretton Group		Aaditya Singh aaditya.singh.21@ucl.ac.uk Saxe Group
	Hugh Dance hugh.dance.15@ucl.ac.uk 1st Year		Mohadeseh Shafiei Kafraj mohadeseh.kafraj.22@ucl.ac.uk 1st Year
	Cameron Stewart cameron.stewart.22@ucl.ac.uk 1st Year		Loek van Rossem loek.rossem.22@ucl.ac.uk 1st Year
	Yedi Zhang yedi.zhang.22@ucl.ac.uk 1st Year		External PhD Student, DeepMind Yahze Li, Jonathan Schwarz PhD Student, Foundational AI CDT Antonin Schrab SCGB Undergraduate Research Fellow Andrada Maria Marica, Paul Oakehalam, Aishah Qureshi, Maria Yuffa

 

Professional Services Staff

	Scientific Programme Manager I-Chun Lin i.lin@ucl.ac.uk Contact for queries related to the Gatsby PhD programme, research collaborations and opportunities, proposals for joint workshops, outreach and public engagement activities, and anything related to scientific affairs.
	Administrative Manager Mike Sainsbury m.sainsbury@ucl.ac.uk Contact for queries related to managerial support, including HR, finance, and research management.
	Administrative Assistant Barry Fong b.fong@ucl.ac.uk Contact for general administration queries, including room bookings, mailing lists, events and external seminars, and alumni information update.
	Head of Scientific Computing (Jointly with SWC) John Pelan j.pelan@ucl.ac.uk
	IT Relationship Manager (Jointly with SWC) Richard Mumba r.mumba@ucl.ac.uk
	Computer Officer (Jointly with SWC) Tom Hampson t.hampson@ucl.ac.uk
	Senior Systems Administrator (Jointly with SWC) Alex Martin alex.martin@ucl.ac.uk
	Head Research Engineer (Jointly with SWC) Adam Tyson adam.tyson@ucl.ac.uk

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