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In an increasingly interdisciplinary world, developing the computer science, data analysis and artificial intelligence skills necessary for future large-scale scientific and industrial problems

Project title:ÌýMachine learning assisted model comparison with normalizing flows

Research Group: MSSL

Supervisor(s): Prof Jason Mcewen

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Before coming to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê, I obtained an MSci Physics with Theoretical Physics degree from Imperial College London. My interest in cosmology and statistics was sparked by a summer project I carried out at the Imperial Astrophysics Group as part of the IROP programme. After graduation, I further developed my interest in data science and machine learning through a project in bioinformatics. I'm now working with Prof Jason McEwen at the Mullard Space Laboratory AstroInfo group. My PhD will focus on geometric deep learning and its applications to cosmology.Ìý

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My research focuses on developing machine learning and statistical methods for astrophysics and beyond. Recently, I have been working on the learned harmonic mean estimator with normalizing flows: a robust, scalable and flexible estimator of the marginal likelihood for model comparison. The method is implemented in the open-source ‘harmonic’ Python package (), of which I am one of the main developers. Recently, we have applied our method in a practical, cosmological context and are currently working on further applications within astrophysics.

As part of my first-year group project, under the guidance of the data science team at the Guardian, my colleagues and I leveraged Natural Language Processing for coreference resolution to construct a custom pipeline for quote attribution in Guardian articles. Working on the project was an invaluable experience that allowed me to explore a new field in machine learning, as well as learn about how data science can be used in industry.

Before coming to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê, I obtained an MSci Physics with Theoretical Physics degree from Imperial College London. My interest in cosmology and data science was sparked by a summer project I carried out at the Imperial Astrophysics Group as part of the IROP programme.

First year group project:ÌýCoreference resolution for quote attribution at the Guardian

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