Professor Carl Edward Rasmussen

Professor of Machine Learning Group and Head of the Computational and Biological Learning Lab at Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

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Professor of Machine Learning Group and Head of the Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Professor Carl Edward Rasmussen's interest is decision making under uncertainty. How do we combine first principles scientific knowledge and data-driven models with desired objectives to make evidence based, rational decisions? He works on both the technical aspects, like Bayesian inference and decision making in machine learning and AI and also on how these principles apply more widely. In particular, he is interested in how we can tackle climate change. What do sound principles and mechanisms look like for policy at local, national and international levels?

Carl studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark before doing his PhD in Computer Science with Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto, Canada. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL in London, and a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. He moved to Cambridge in 2007, where he is Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Computational and Biological Learning Lab at the Department of Engineering. He is director of the Cambridge ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Unit and Chief Scientist at the Cambridge AI company Secondmind. He is a fellow of Darwin College.