Unit Director; Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning
maneesh@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk
Research Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning
b.confavreux@ucl.ac.uk
Barışcan Bozkurt
Gretton Group
bariscan.bozkurt.23@ucl.ac.uk
Valentina Njaradi
Latham Group
valentina.njaradi.23@ucl.ac.uk
Nishil Patel
Saxe Group
nishil.patel.21@ucl.ac.uk
Marta Sartori
Sahani Group
marta.sartori.17@ucl.ac.uk
Zhe Wang
Gretton Group (CS)
wang.zhe.23@ucl.ac.uk
Jan Bauer
Second Year
jan.bauer@ucl.ac.uk
Mateo Amortegui Cifuentes
Second Year
mateo.cifuentes.24@ucl.ac.uk
Qianqian Feng
Second Year
qianqian.feng@ucl.ac.uk
Arielle Rosinski
Second Year
arielle.rosinski.19@ucl.ac.uk
Jakub Wornbard
Second Year
jakub.wornbard.24@ucl.ac.uk
Noé Hamou
Second Year (GCNU-SWC Joint Programme)
noe.hamou.24@ucl.ac.uk
Azwar Abdulsalam
First Year
azwar.azwar.25@ucl.ac.uk
Alessandro Breccia
First Year
alessandro.breccia.25@ucl.ac.uk
Karan Elangovan
First Year
karan.elangovan.25@ucl.ac.uk
Maria Chiara Montorfano
First Year
maria.montorfano.25@ucl.ac.uk
William Yang
First Year
william.yang.25@ucl.ac.uk
Zixuan (Zayne) Zhou
First Year
zixuan.zhou.26@ucl.ac.uk
Rudy Gelb-Bicknell
First Year (GCNU-SWC Joint Programme)
rudy.gelb-bicknell.25@ucl.ac.uk
Jake Laherty
First Year (GCNU-SWC Joint Programme)
jake.laherty.24@ucl.ac.uk
Katherine Lin
First Year (GCNU-SWC Joint Programme)
katherine.lin.25@ucl.ac.uk
I-Chun Lin
Scientific Programme Manager
i.lin@ucl.ac.uk
Contact for queries related to the PhD programmes, research collaborations and opportunities, proposals for joint workshops, outreach and public engagement activities, and anything related to scientific affairs.
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, and alumni information update.
Despina Christou
Personal Assistant (Saxe Lab & Latham Lab)
d.christou@ucl.ac.uk
Richard Mumba
IT Relationship Manager
r.mumba@ucl.ac.uk
Ivan Varela
Research Assistant
ivan.varela@ucl.ac.uk
The Greater Gatsby (Alumni)
More than 90% of our PhD and postdoctoral alumni work in a scientific or research setting. Over 40% have established successful academic careers, and around 30% continue research in companies such as Google DeepMind, itself founded by two of our alumni, Meta and Anthropic.
(In reverse chronological order by the start year.)
- Aapo Hyvarinen (2016 - 2019)
- Yee Whye Teh (2011 - 2012)
- Geoffrey Hinton (Founding director 1998-2001)
- Peter Dayan (1998-2018; Director, 2002-2017)
- Zhaoping Li (1998 - 2001)
- Zoubin Ghahramani (1998 - 2005)
- Arthur Pellegrino (2025 - 2025)
- James Heald (2022 - 2026)
- Erin Grant (2022 - 2025)
- Stefano Sarao Mannelli (2022 - 2024)
- Marcel Nonenmacher (2022 - 2024)
- Brendan Bicknell (2021 - 2025)
- Alberto Pezzotta (2021 - 2025)
- Jaweria Amjad (2021 - 2025)
- Zhu (Micheal) Li (2021 - 2025)
- Lee Gunderson (2021 - 2024)
- Sam Lewallen (2021 - 2023)
- Calvin Kao (2021 - 2022)
- Sanjukta Krishnagopal (2020-2022)
- Grace Lindsay (2020 - 2022)
- Mehrdad Salmasi (2019 - 2023)
- Anna Korba (2019 - 2020)
- Francesca Mastrogiuseppe (2018 - 2022)
- Hiroshi Morioka (2017 – 2019)
- Naoki Hiratani (2017 - 2020)
- Ricardo Monti (2017 – 2020)
- Tamara Fernandez (2017 - 2020)
- Carlos Stein (2016 – 2019)
- Danica Sutherland (2016 – 2019)
- Robin Cao (2016 – 2019)
- Sina Tootoonian (2016 – 2018)
- Angus Chadwick (2015 – 2018)
- Arne Meyer (2014 – 2019)
- Kevin Lloyd (2014 – 2017)
- Kiyohito Iigaya (2014 – 2017)
- Mehdi Keramati ( 2014 – 2016)
- Mijung Park (2014 – 2015)
- Thomas Desautels (2013 – 2015)
- Zoltan Szabo (2013 – 2016)
- Ben Dongsung Huh (2012 – 2015)
- Pedro Goncalves (2012 – 2015)
- Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska (2011 – 2014)
- Dino Sejdinovic (2011 – 2013)
- Nicolas Heess (2011 – 2013)
- Srinivas Turaga (2011 – 2014)
- Andriy Mnih (2010 – 2013)
- Bharath Sriperumbudur (2010 – 2012)
- Biljana Petreska (2010 – 2014)
- Jakob Macke (2010 – 2012)
- Lars Buesing (2010 – 2013)
- Shane Legg (2010 – 2011)
- Demis Hassabis (2009 – 2012)
- Marta Garrido (2009 – 2012)
- Jeff Beck (2008 – 2011)
- Ulrik Beierholm (2008 – 2011)
- Alexander Lerchner (2007 – 2012)
- Adam Sanborn (2007 – 2010)
- Dilan Gorur (2007 – 2010)
- Frank Wood (2007 – 2009)
- Imre Risi Kondor (2007 – 2009)
- Anne Hsu (2005 – 2007)
- Gianluigi Mongillo (2005 – 2006)
- JaeMo Sung (2005 – 2006)
- Jonathan Pillow (2005 – 2008)
- Jörg Lücke (2005 – 2007)
- Liam Paninski (2004 – 2005)
- Pietro Berkes (2005 – 2008)
- Ricardo Silva (2005 – 2007)
- Yasser Roudi (2005 – 2008)
- Máté Lengyel (2004 – 2006)
- Mickey London (2004 – 2006)
- Peggy Series (2004 – 2006)
- Boris Gutkin (2003 – 2004)
- Chu Wei (2003 – 2006)
- Fernando Perez-Cruz (2003 – 2005)
- Jasvinder Kandola (2003 – 2004)
- Nathaniel Daw (2003 – 2006)
- Mark Andrews (2002 – 2004)
- Michael Duff (2002 – 2003)
- Sophie Deneve (2002 – 2003)
- Ariella Popple (2000 – 2001)
- Carl Rasmussen (2000 – 2002)
- Max Welling (2000 – 2001)
- Yury Petrov (2000 – 2002)
- Sam Roweis (1999 – 2001)
- Carl van Vreeswijk (1998 – 2000)
- Emo Todorov (1998 – 2000)
- Hagai Attias (1998 – 2000)
- William Dorrell (2020 - 2025)
- Kevin (Han) Huang (2020 - 2025)
- Clementine Domine (2020 - 2025)
- Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis (2020 - 2025)
- Antonin Schrab (2020 - 2024)
- Naureen Ghani (2020 - 2024)
- Hugo Soulat (2019 - 2025)
- Ted Moskovitz (2019 - 2024)
- Liyuan Xu (2019 - 2024)
- William Walker (2018 - 2023)
- Lucas Silva Simões (2018 - 2023)
- Virginia Ruetten (2017 - 2024)
- Heishiro Kanagawa (2017 - 2022)
- Roman Pogodin (2017 - 2022)
- Franziska Bröker (2017 - 2022)
- Ilyes Khemakhem (2017 - 2022)
- Jorge Menendez Canelas (2016 - 2021)
- Kirsty McNaught (2016 - 2019)
- Lea Duncker (2016 - 2021)
- Michael Arbel (2016 - 2021)
- Wenkai Xu (2016 - 2021)
- Alex Antrobus (2015 - 2019)
- Kevin (Wenliang) Li (2015 - 2021)
- Elena Zamfir (2014 - 2021)
- Eszter Vertes (2014 - 2020)
- Sanjeevan Ahilan (2014 - 2021)
- Sofia Jativa (2014 - 2019)
- Carsen Stringer (2013 - 2017)
- Federico Mancinelli (2013 - 2017)
- Gergö Bohner (2013 - 2019)
- Heiko Strathmann (2013 - 2018)
- Joana Soldado-Magraner (2013 - 2019)
- Wittawat Jitkrittum (2013 - 2017)
- Kacper Chwialkowski (2012 - 2016)
- Kristin Voelk (2012 - 2015)
- Vincent Adam (2012 - 2017)
- Laurence Aitchison (2011 - 2016)
- Maria Lomeli (2011 - 2016)
- Sam Patterson (2011 - 2013)
- Arthur Guez (2010 - 2015)
- Balaji Lakshminarayanan (2010 - 2016)
- Marius Pachitariu (2010 - 2014)
- Loic Matthey (2009 - 2014)
- Lloyd Elliott (2009 - 2013)
- Ritwik Niyogi (2009 - 2014)
- Alexandru Gabriel Teodoru (2008 - 2013)
- Charles Blundell (2008 - 2013)
- David Barrett (2008 - 2012)
- David Schulz (2008 - 2013)
- Jan Gasthaus (2008 - 2014)
- Mandana Ahmadi (2007 - 2019)
- Ross Williamson (2007 - 2012)
- Vinayak Rao (2007 - 2013)
- Debayioti Ray (2006 - 2008)
- Phillipp Hehrmann (2006 - 2011)
- Amit Miller (2005 - 2009)
- Kai Krueger (2005 - 2010)
- Reza Moazzezi (2005 - 2010)
- Katherine Heller (2004 - 2008)
- Louise Whiteley (2004 - 2008)
- Misha Ahrens (2004 - 2009)
- Richard Turner (2004 - 2009)
- Arik Azran (2003 - 2006)
- Quentin Huys (2003 - 2007)
- Edward Snelson (2002 - 2006)
- Iain Murray (2002 - 2007)
- Ho Young Jeong (2002 - 2005)
- Tom Bennett (2002 - 2005)
- Yael Niv (2002 - 2007)
- Eric Tuttle (2001 - 2003)
- Xoana Troncoso (2001 - 2006)
- Angela Yu (2000 - 2005)
- Alberto Paccanaro (1999 - 2002)
- Quaid Morris (1999 - 2001)
- Simon Osindero (1999 - 2004)
- Szabolcs Káli (1999 - 2002)
- Alexander Korenberg (1998 - 2002)
- Andrew Brown (1998 - 2002)
- Brian Sallans (1998 - 2001)
- Guy Mayraz (1998 - 2000)
- Matthew Beal (1998 - 2003)
- Sham Kakade (1998 - 2003)
- Ana Saraiva Ayash (2019 - 2022)
- Richard Bennett (2016 - 2022)
- Reign McMillan (2008 - 2018)