Professor of Machine Learning, Information Engineering , University of Oxford

Professor Stephen Roberts is Professor of Machine Learning in the Information Engineering Department at the University of Oxford. His main area of research lies in machine learning approaches to data analysis.

He has particular interests in the development of machine learning theory for problems in time series analysis and decision theory. Current research applies Bayesian statistics, graphical models and information theory to diverse problem domains including astronomy, mathematical biology, finance and sensor networks. He leads the Machine Learning Research Group, is a Professorial Fellow of Somerville College and a faculty member of the Oxford-Man Institute.

He studied physics, completed a PhD in Signal Processing and was appointed to the faculty at Imperial College London, before taking up his post in Oxford in 1999. He has been awarded two medals by the IEE for papers on Bayesian signal analysis.