About Me

I’m 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 (Department of Empirical Inference), under the Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning. My supervisors are José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Bernhard Schölkopf, and Hong Ge.

I’m keen on basic research in machine learning and its scientific applications. My research interest lies at the intersection of deep learning and probabilistic methods. I’m exicted about developing efficient machine learning methods for robust prediction and realistic data generation.

Interests
  • Representation Learning
  • Meta/Multi-Task Learning
  • Generative Modeling
  • Probabilistic Modeling
  • Optimization
  • AI for Science
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 (Hons) in Mathematics, First Class, 2020

    University of Manchester

Selected Publications

See my Google Scholar profile or publication page for a complete list of publications.
Diffusive Gibbs Sampling
ICML 2024
Wenlin Chen*, Mingtian Zhang*, Brooks Paige, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, David Barber
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Meta-learning Adaptive Deep Kernel Gaussian Processes for Molecular Property Prediction
ICLR 2023
Wenlin Chen, Austin Tripp, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
PDF Cite Code Slides OpenReview arXiv
Optimal Client Sampling for Federated Learning
TMLR 2022
Wenlin Chen, Samuel Horváth, Peter Richtárik
PDF Cite Code Video OpenReview arXiv
To Ensemble or Not Ensemble: When Does End-to-End Training Fail?
ECML 2020
Andrew Webb, Charles Reynolds, Wenlin Chen, Henry Reeve, Dan Iliescu, Mikel Luján, Gavin Brown
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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern - AI for Science
Microsoft Research AI4Science
Mar 2024 – Present Haidian, Beijing, China
Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning Force Field
 
 
 
 
 
Doctoral Fellow - Machine Learning
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Oct 2021 – Present Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellow in Machine Learning
 
 
 
 
 
Doctoral Fellow - Machine Learning
Department of Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Oct 2021 – Present Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellow in Machine Learning
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern - Optimization
CEMSE, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Aug 2020 – Sep 2020 Remote
Federated Learning and Distributed Optimization
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant - Machine Learning
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Sep 2018 – Jun 2020 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Ensemble Deep Learning
 
 
 
 
 
Research Engineer Intern - Machine Learning
Imagination Technologies
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 Kings Langley, England, United Kingdom
Efficient Deep Learning on Edge Devices

Awards

CUED PhD Studentship
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge May 2021
Cambridge Trust Scholarship
Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust Apr 2021
Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning
University of Cambridge and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Feb 2021
The Royal Statistical Society Prize
The Royal Statistical Society Jul 2020
International Mathematics Scholarship
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester Aug 2019

Contact

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