About Me

I am a PhD student in Machine Learning at University of Cambridge (Machine Learning Group, Computational and Biological Learning Lab) and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Empirical Inference Department), under the Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning. My supervisors are Professor José Miguel Hernández-Lobato and Professor Bernhard Schölkopf. My advisor is Dr Hong Ge.

I am keen on basic research in machine learning and its scientific applications (e.g., drug discovery). My research interest lies at the intersection of probabilistic methods, deep learning, and causal inference. I aim to develop data-efficient and causally-aware machine learning methods that enable active data collection, robust inference and prediction, efficient data compression, and realistic generation of novel synthetic data.

Interests
  • Probabilistic Modelling
  • Deep Learning
  • Representation Learning
  • Multi-task/Meta Learning
  • Generative Modelling
  • Optimization
  • Causal Modelling
Education
  • PhD in Machine Learning

    University of Cambridge and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

  • MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence, Distinction, 2021

    University of Cambridge

  • BSc in Mathematics, First Class Honours, 2020

    University of Manchester

Publications

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(2022). Optimal Client Sampling for Federated Learning. TMLR 2022.

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(2022). An Evaluation Framework for the Objective Functions of De Novo Drug Design Benchmarks. ICLR 2022 MLDD Workshop.

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(2021). Causal Representation Learning for Latent Space Optimization. MPhil Thesis, University of Cambridge.

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(2020). To Ensemble or Not Ensemble: When Does End-to-End Training Fail?. ECML 2020.

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Doctoral Fellow - Machine Learning
Oct 2021 – Present Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellow in Machine Learning, funded by a Cambridge Trust Scholarship and a CUED PhD Studentship.
 
 
 
 
 
Doctoral Fellow - Machine Learning
Oct 2021 – Present Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellow in Machine Learning.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant - Probabilistic and Causal Machine Learning
Jan 2021 – Sep 2021 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern - Federated Learning and Distributed Optimization
Aug 2020 – Sep 2020 Remote
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant - Ensemble Deep Learning
Sep 2018 – Jun 2020 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
 
 
 
 
 
Research Engineer Intern - Deep Learning on Edge Devices
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 Kings Langley, England, United Kingdom

Awards

Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning
The Royal Statistical Society Prize
International Mathematics Scholarship

Contact

  • wc337@cam.ac.uk
  • St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0BN, United Kingdom