People

The Unit consists of faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, PhD students and professional services staff.

Faculty

	Maneesh Sahani Director of the GCNU & Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning 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
	Peter Latham Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience pel@gatsby.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
	Arthur Gretton Professor of Machine Learning  a.gretton@ucl.ac.uk Research Interests  A key component of Artificial Intelligence (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 goal: the ability to learn structured models that generate faithful samples of such real-world entities, and the ability to reason about and test properties of high-dimensional naturalistic distributions. Publications
	Peter Orbanz Professor of Machine Learning  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
	Andrew Saxe  Group Leader in Machine Learning applied to Neuroscience (Jointly with SWC) 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.
	Ferenc Huszar Part-time Honorary Lecturer   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.
	Matthew Botvinick  Honorary Professor & Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

Jaweria Amjad Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience jaweria.amjad@ucl.ac.uk	Dario Campagner GCNU-SWC Research Fellow d.campagner@ucl.ac.uk
George Dimitriadis GCNU-SWC Research Fellow  g.dimitriadis@ucl.ac.uk	Lee Gunderson Research Fellow in Machine Learning l.gunderson@ucl.ac.uk
Sanjukta Krishnagopal Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience s.krishnagopal@ucl.ac.uk	Zhu (Michael) Li Research Fellow in Machine Learning zhu.li@ucl.ac.uk
Grace Lindsay GCNU-SWC Research Fellow g.lindsay@ucl.ac.uk	Ryan Low GCNU-SWC Research Fellow ucqfrlo@ucl.ac.uk
Stefano Sarao Mannelli Research Fellow	Francesca Mastrogiuseppe Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience f.mastrogiuseppe@ucl.ac.uk
Joaquin Rapela  Research Engineer Fellow j.rapela@ucl.ac.uk	Mehrdad Salmasi Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience m.salmasi@ucl.ac.uk

 

PhD Students

Alex Antrobus alexander.antrobus.15@ucl.ac.uk Peter Latham Group	Franziska Broeker franziska.broeker.15@ucl.ac.uk Peter Dayan Group (external)	Rodrigo Carrasco rodrigo.cd.20@ucl.ac.uk 1st year PhD student
Clementine Domine clementine.domine.20@ucl.ac.uk>; 1st Year PhD student	William Dorrell william.dorrell.20@ucl.ac.uk 1st Year PhD student	Kevin Huang han.huang.20@ucl.ac.uk 1st year PhD student
Heishiro Kanawaga heishiro.kanawaga.17@ucl.ac.uk Arthur Gretton Group	Ilyes Khemakhem ilyes.khemakhem.17@ucl.ac.uk Aapo Hyvarinen Group (external)	Theodore Moskovitz  theodore.moskovitz.19@ucl.ac.uk Maneesh Sahani Group
Roman Pogodin roman.pogodin.17@ucl.ac.uk Peter Latham Group	Virginia Rutten virginie.rutten.17@ucl.ac.uk Maneesh Sahani Group/Janelia	Lucas Simoes l.simoes.18@ucl.ac.uk Peter Latham Group
Hugo Soulat hugo.soulat.19@ucl.ac.uk Maneesh Sahani Group	William Walker william.walker.18@ucl.ac.uk Maneesh Sahani Group	Liyuan Xu liyuan.jo.19@ucl.ac.uk Arthur Gretton Group
Wenkai Xu wenkai.xu.16@ucl.ac.uk Arthur Gretton Group	Liang Zhou  liang.zhou.18@ucl.ac.uk Peter Latham Group

 

External PhD Students

Yahze Li DeepMind PhD Student

Jonathan Schwarz DeepMind PhD Student

Antonin Schrab Foundational AI CDT PhD Student

Professional Services Staff

	Ana Saraiva Ayash Scientific Programme Manager a.saraiva@ucl.ac.uk Contact for queries related to scientific collaborations and research opportunities, public engagement and joint workshop proposals, the Gatsby PhD programme, and anything related to scientific relations.
	Mike Sainsbury Administrative Manager m.sainsbury@ucl.ac.uk Contact for queries related to managerial support, including HR, finance, and research management.
	Barry Fong Administrative Assistant b.fong@ucl.ac.uk Contact for general administration queries, including room bookings, mailing lists, events and external seminars.

The Greater Gatsby (Alumni)

See a comprehensive list of previous Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows and PhD Students.