The University of Manchester’s Jason Hartford describes how studying economics first got him interested in machine learning and how his academic background has influenced his approach to AI research.  

Our series meeting Hub researchers continues with the University of Edinburgh’s Siddharth Narayanaswamy who recently used doughnut eating, celebrities and handbags to illustrate a talk on generative modelling and representation learning at UCL.

In the first of a regular series of Q&As with our researchers, the University of Surrey’s Mark Plumbley talks about his hopes for the Multi Modal Models working group and his love of sound and music.