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LECTURER (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR) AT MANCHESTER CS, MCAIF

MICHELE CAPRIO
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Machine Learning in the Department of Computer Science of The University of Manchester, and a Member of the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals. Previously, I was a Postdoc at the PRECISE Center of the Department of Computer and Information Science of the University of Pennsylvania, under Insup Lee, and I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics at Duke University under the guidance of Sayan Mukherjee.
ISIPTA 2025
Symp. on Math. Foundations of Trustworthy ML
EurIPS 2025
Winter School: Robotics & AI for Mat. Chemistry
ICSDS 2025
RECENT CONFERENCES
SELECTED AWARDS and GRANTS
IMS Hannan Travel Award
IJAR Young Researcher Award
IMS New Researchers Travel Award
RAEng Google DeepMind Placements Grant
Won IROS 2025 Quadruped Robot Challenge
OPEN PHD & POSTDOC POSITIONS
Joint Manchester-Cambridge CDT in Decision Making for Complex Systems: here
Departmental PhD: here (some topics that my students and I currently work on)
Funding Opportunities at Our Department: here (Subject area: Computer Science, then choose your Nationality)
ELLIS PhD Application: here
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Application: here
IN DEFENSE OF LEARNING, RESEARCH, AND FREE INQUIRY
Norbert Wiener, Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas, Chapter 3
Abraham Flexner, The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
Saunders Mac Lane, On why Universities Should Not Imitate Industry
NEWS
06. 12. 25 — Fanyi and Veronika presented our work on Bayesian Conformal Prediction at EIML@EurIPS 2025
12. 12. 25 — I will deliver an invited lecture at the Winter School: Robotics and AI for Materials Chemistry 2025
16. 12. 25 — I will present my work on Categorical Conformal Prediction at ICSDS 2025
19. 01. 26 to 31. 01. 26 — I will present my work on Imprecise Probabilistic ML at Northeastern and MIT
23. 01. 26 — I will serve as Area Chair at ICML 2026
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