I am currently a final year Computational Statistics and Machine Learning PhD student of STOR-i CDT at Lancaster University supervised by Henry Moss and David Leslie, as a part of Moss’ MADD group.
My PhD is additionally supported by ARC TIDE Hub in Australia and collaborating with Lachlan Astfalck and Edward Cripps.
I am broadly interested in the Bayesian decision-making. In particular, my research focuses on developing sequential Bayesian designs – such as active learning and Bayesian optimization – for application areas including probabilistic numerics and ocean engineering.
I am also exploring what post-Bayesian ideas could offer for more robust and efficient decision-making, as well as what diffusion models could bring as more expressive and flexible priors.
I am currently co-organsing the Bayesian Experimental Design and Active Learning Seminar Series with friends and colleagues from Manchester and Oxford.
While at Lancaster, I set up and have been quite involved in the Lancaster AI Reading Group, a weekly reading group focusing on topics related to AI, such as diffusion models, reinforcement learning, and geometric deep learning. This group is supported by the ProbAI Hub.
Previously, I did BSc Mathematics and Statistical Science at UCL where I was mentored by Sam Livingstone and received a Royal Statistical Society Award.
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News
[Oct 26] Will attend the ISBA BayesAI Workshop in Edinburgh.
[Oct 26] ArXived BOLD for Bayesian shape optimisation.
[Oct 26] Visiting Chris Oates’ group for the visiting fellowship.
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[Sep 26] Attended the MARS Annual Symposium 2026 and presented BALLAST.
[Sep 26] Attended the Newcastle Sampling Workshop and presented VaSE.
[Jul 26] ArXived pathwise skew-symmetric scheme.
[Jul 26] Attended ICML in Seoul.
[Jun 26] ArXived VaSE.
[Jun 26] Attended MCQMC 2026 and spoke at the special session “Sampling and Approximation for Random Fields”. Supported by ProbAI Hub.
[May 26] Visited Søren Hauberg’s group in Denmark with Moss lab. Supported by MARS.
[May 26] Visited Chris Oates’ group to initialise the visiting fellowship.
[Apr 26] BALLAST accepted at ICML. Planning to attend the conference in Seoul!
[Apr 26] Received a Visting Fellowship from Chris Oates to work on post-Bayesian methods. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
[Feb 26] Presented BALLAST at AI Across Scale workshop in Newton Institute, Cambridge. The recording of my talk can be found here. Supported by the Newton Institute.
[Jan 26] Presented BALLAST at the STOR-i Annual Conference in Lancaster and the Irish CRT Winter Symposium in Dublin. Supported by STOR-i.
[Dec 25] Our paper Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift has been accepted in the IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis! This is joint work with Yuga Iguchi, Sam Livingstone, Nik Nüsken, and Giorgos Vasdekis.
[Oct 25] Presented VaSE at Workshop on Kernels, Flows, and Sampling in Newcastle. Had a great time!
[Oct 25] Presented BALLAST at Physics Enhancing Machine Learning workshop in Institute of Physics, London.
[Sep 25] Passed the baton of organising the LAI reading group to Cass. What a year!
[Aug 25] Supervised two wonderful STOR-i Summer Interns: Ben on probabilistic eddy identifications and Harriett (co-supervised with Kajal) on sea surface temperature modelling.
[Jul 25] Awarded the PGR Citizenship Prize with Andreas by the School of Mathematical Sciences for setting up the LAI reading group.
[Jun 25] Conducted a week-long research visit at UCL with Yuga, Sam, and Giorgos. Supported by the Heilbronn Institute.
[Mar 25] Did several outreach talks to sixth form students in Lancashire (Lancaster, Blackpool, and Southport) on decision and game theories – giving back to the community. Supported by STOR-i, especially Wendy and Kate!
[Feb 25] Presented an earlier version of BALLAST at the Statistics PhD Seminar in UCL. Talk recording can be found here.
[Dec 24] Attended APTS training in Oxford. Beautiful place!
[Nov 24] Visited UWA in Perth, Australia for a month; sponsored by ARC TIDE Hub. Nice sunny break from the damp English winter.
[Sep 24] Co-organised the BayesAI workshop. Supported by STOR-i and ProbAI.
