Bio:
I am a researcher working in statistical machine learning and artificial intelligence at Google, London, in the Deepmind team. Deepmind was acquired by Google in January 2014, and we continue to work toward the goal of developing more intelligent and general-purpose learning algorithms.
Before moving to London, I held a Junior Research Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) as part of the programme on Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception. I was based in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia in the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence (LCI) with Nando de Freitas.
I completed my PhD with Zoubin Ghahramani in at the University of Cambridge, where I was a Commonwealth Scholar to the United Kingdom and a member of St John’s College. I am from South Africa, and completed my previous degrees in Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.