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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.
Winter School: Robotics & AI for Mat. Chemistry
ICSDS 2025
20 Years of PMLR - Sorrento Meeting
Approximately Bayes Workshop
International Congress of Mathematicians 2026
RECENT CONFERENCES
SELECTED AWARDS and GRANTS
IJAR Young Researcher Award
IMS New Researchers Travel Award
RAEng Google DeepMind Placements Grant
Won IROS 2025 Quadruped Robot Challenge
Prob_AI Hub Networking and Development Fund
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
20. 03. 26 — Our Workshop Proposal on Epistemic Intelligence in ML has been accepted at ICML 2026
20. 03. 26 — I was awarded the LMS Early Career Researcher Travel Award
20. 03. 26 — After serving at ICML 2026, I will be Area Chair also for NeurIPS 2026
13. 04. 26 — I will present our work on Robust Random Features Models to UCL's Fundamentals of Statistical ML Lab
22. 04. 26 — I will present recent advances in Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning at INRIA Lille's Magnet Lab
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