Seminars at the EPSRC CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems, University of Oxford
Source: https://aims.robots.ox.ac.uk/seminars Parent: https://aims.robots.ox.ac.uk/
Seminar Series
AIMS Seminar Series
All seminars will take place on Friday's from 12noon - 1:00 pm unless otherwise stated.
Hilary Term 2026
Week 1 – Friday 23rd January
No seminar
Week 2 – Friday 30th January
Fazl Barez – (Oxford Martin School)
Week 3 – Friday 6th February
Joey Durham (Amazon)
Week 4 – Friday 13th February
Jakob Foerster (Department of Engineering Science)
Week 5 – Friday 20th February
No seminar
Week 6 – Friday 27th February
Sumeet Motwani (Department of (Engineering Science)
Week 7 – Friday 6th March
Digby Chappell (Oxford Robotics Institute)
Week 8 – Thursday 12th March @ 4pm
Moritz Hartd (University of Tubingen)
Michaelmas Term 2025
Week 1 - Friday 17th October
- 10:00–11:00 — Robert Trager: Birds in a Dark Country: The Hard Necessity of Technical Governance
- 11:00–12:00 — Joslyn Barnhart: Institutional Approaches to AI Safety
- 14:15–15:30 — Neel Nanda: A Whirlwind Tour of Mechanistic Interpretability
- 15:30–16:30 — Yoshua Bengio (Online): Avoiding Catastrophic Risks from Uncontrolled AI Agency
Week 2 - Friday 24th October
Prof Yingzhen Li (Imperial)
Week 3 - Friday 31st October
Vitaly Kurin (Nvidia) - "Reinforcement Learning is a leaky abstraction: doing research at the boundary of algorithms, software, and hardware"
Week 4 - Friday 7th November
Vicky Jewell (Satellite Catapult)
Week 5 - Friday 14th November
Christian Schroeder de Witt (Department of Engineering Science)
Week 6 - Friday 21st November
Borja Gonzalez Leon (Iconic Interactive)
Week 7 - Friday 28th November
No seminar
Week 8 - Friday 15th December
Niki Foteinopoulou (Toshiba)
Hilary Term 2025
Week 1 - Friday 24th February
Professor Ingmar Posner (Oxford Robotics Institute)
Week 2 - Friday 31st January
Ollie Thompson/Don Scott (Marine AI)
Week 3 - Friday 7th February
Pia Dreiseitel (Continental)
Week 4 - Friday 14th February
Dr Cheng Ouyang (IBME)
Week 5 - Friday 21st February
Ivan Dokmanic (University of Basel)
Week 6 - Friday 28th February
No Seminar
Week 7 - Friday 7th March
Rebecca McFadden (Deimos Space)
Week 8 - Friday 14th March
Roberta Raileanu (Meta)
Michaelmas Term 2024
Week 1 - Friday 18th October
Dr Daniele de Martini (Oxford Robotics Institute)
Week 2 - Friday 25th October
Professor Sergio Barbarossa *(Sapienza University of Rome) - Topological signal processing and learning*
Week 3 - Friday 1st November
Professor Christian Rupprecht (Department of Computer Science) - Computer Vision during the time of scaling - what is left?
Week 4 - Friday 8th November
Dr Rudra Poudel (Cambridge Research Laboratory)
Week 5 - Tuesday 12th November at 1pm in LR7
Nico Kramer (Denmark's Technical University) - Adaptive Probabilistic ODE Solvers without Adaptive Memory Requirements
Week 5 - Friday 15th November
Dr Valentina Salvatelli (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Week 6 - Friday 22nd November
Dr Jindong Gu (Department of Engineering Science)
Week 7 - Friday 29th November
Professor Tolga Birdal (Imperial College)
Week 8 - Friday 6th December- CANCELLED
Dr Cheng Ouyang (Institute of Biomedical Engineering)
Hilary Term 2024
Week 1 - Friday 19th January
TBC
Week 2 Friday 26th January
Professor Giuseppe De Giacomo (Department of Computer Science)
Week 3 - Friday 2nd February
TBC
Week 4 - Friday 9th February
Dr Daniele De Martini (Oxford Robotics Institute)
Week 5 - Friday 9th February
No seminar
Week 6 - Friday 9th February
No seminar
Week 7 - Friday 1st March
TBC
Week 8 - Friday 8th March
Ben Lambert (Schmidt AI in Science Academic Director)
Michaelmas Term 2023
Week 1 - Friday 13th October
Professor Moritz Kraemer (Department of Biology)
Week 2 - Friday 20th October
Professor Tingting Zhu (Department of Engineering Science)
Machine Learning Models for Healthcare: Advancements and Applications
Week 3 - Friday 27th October
Ankur Handa (Nvidia Research)
Week 4 - Friday 3rd November
Dr Mattie Fellows (Department of Computer Science)
Week 5 - Friday 10th November
Dr Oiwi Parker Jones (Department of Engineering Science)
Week 6 - Friday 17th November
Dr Mengyan Zhang (Department of Computer Science)
Week 7 - Friday 24th November
Prof. Alessandro Abate (Department of Computer Science)
Week 8 - Friday 1st December
Christian Schroeder de Witt (Department of Computer Science)
"Multi-Agent Security: The Foundation of Cooperation"
Hilary Term 2023
*Week 1 - Friday 20th January*
*Cyril Stachniss - (University of Bonn, Robotics Lab) - "LiDAR-Based Perception in Urban Environments"*
*Week 2 - Friday 27th January*
Amir Patel - (University of Cape Town) - "Studying cheetahs to build the next generation of robots" @11:00am
*Week 3 - Friday 3rd February*
Minqi Jiang - (UCL & Meta AI) - "An Introduction to Unsupervised Environment Design"
*Week 4 - Friday 10th February*
*Prof. Yuki Asano - (University of Amsterdam)*
*Week 5 - Friday 17th February*
Adel Bibi - (Torr Group)
*Week 6 - Friday 24th February*
No Seminar
*Week 7 - Friday 3rd March*
Puneet Dokania - (Torr Group)
*Week 8 - Friday 10th March*
*Prof. Nobuko Yoshida (Strachey Chair, Dept. of Computer Science)*
Week 9 -Friday 17th March
*Prof. Jakob Foerster (Department of Engineering Science)*
Michaelmas Term 2022
Week 1 - Friday 14th October
Brian Mullins (CEO Mind Foundry) - 10 Lessons I learned from AI about spinning out deep-tech, raising venture capital, and scaling teams.
Week 2 - Friday 21st October
*Alison Lowndes (Nvidia) - "Taking tech off Earth" Remotely*
Week 3 - Friday 28th October
Dr Ilija Bogunovic – (UCL) - "Robus Design Discovery and Explanation in Bayesian Optimization"
Week 4 - Friday 4th November
Pia Dreiseitel (Continental) - "Vision Zero AI for Assistance Systems and Driverless Mobility with Zero Accidents"
Week 5 - Friday 11th November
*Noam Brown (FAIR) - ReBeL: Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and Search for Imperfect-Information Games*
Week 6 - Friday 18th November
*Dr Elizaveta Semenova (Dept. of Computer Science) - Deep Generative Modelling Aiding Spatial Statistics*
Week 7 - Friday 25th November
Aldo Pacchiano (Microsoft Research NYC) - "On the Statistical Complexity of Batch Learning with Function Approximation: Theory and Algorithms". (remotely)
Week 8 - Friday 2nd December
*Prof. Alex Rogers (Dept. of Computer Science) - "The Internet of Wild Things"*
Hilary Term 2022
Week 1 - Friday 21st January
*Fotios Logothetis (Toshiba) - Retrieving 3D geometry from light reflection; from classical photometric stereo to deep learning based approaches*
Week 2 - Friday 28th January
*Prof. Jakob Foerster (Dept. of Engineering Science) - Zero-shot Coordination and Off-belief Learning*
Week 3 - Friday 4th February
Ciprian Antaloae (Hyundai) - Application of time series predictions for driving at the Nurburging - current results & challenge
Week 4 - Friday 11th Februry
*Prof. Seth Flexman (Dept. of Computer Science) - Unrepresentative Big Surveys Significantly Overestimate US Vaccine Uptake*
Week 5 -Friday 18th February
*Soumen Chatterjee (Amazon Web Services) - Human 3.0 to Peter 2.0: Right to Thrive with AUgmented Intelligence*
Week 6 - Friday 25th February - No Seminar
Week 7 - Friday 4th March @4pm
*Giovanni Marchisio (Planet Fellow and VP of Analytics) - A New Benchmark Dataset for High Cadence Modeling of Land Cover Dynamics*
Week 8 - Friday 11th March @2pm
Dr. MIchele Faragalli (Chief Technology Officer, Mission Control Space Services Inc) - Challenges of using AI on-board spacecraft & space robots
Michaelmas Term 2021
Week 1 - Friday 15th October
Davide Zilli (Mind Foundry) - Academic ML to Commercial AI: what do people want?
Week 2 - Friday 22nd October
*Dr Michael Schaub (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Signal Processing on Graphs and Simplicial Complexes*
Week 3 - Friday 29th October
*David Petit (Deimos Space) - Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence: how AI is impacting the sector*
Week 4 - Friday 5th November
Borja de Balle Pigem (DeepMind) - “Reconstructing training data from ML models: attacks and mitigations"
Week 5 - Friday 12th November
*Professor Nick Hawes (ORI) - Mission Planning with Uncertain Models*
Week 6 - Friday 19th November
*Orhan Firat (Google Brain) - "Adventures in Large-Scale Multitask Learning for Text in the Wild"*
Week 7 - Friday 26th November
*Professor Alessandro Abate (Department of Computer Science) - "Certified learning, or learning for verification?" *
Week 8 - Friday 3rd December
*Ankush Gupta (DeepMind/AIMS Alumni) - Self-supervised Representation for Perception and Control*
Hilary Term 2021
Week 1 - Friday 22nd January
*Professor Alessandro Abate (Department of Computer Science) - Automated and sound verification and control of dynamical models — learning meets logic*
Week 2- Friday 29th January
Sergey Tulyakov (*Lead Research Scientist at Snap Inc.) - Representations for Content Creation, Manipulation and Animation*
Week 3 - Friday 5th February
*Professor Noa Zilberman (Department of Engineering Science) - Do Switches Dream of Machine Learning?*
Week 4 - Friday 12th February
*Professor Gilles Louppe (University of Liege (Belgium)) - The frontier of simulation-based inference*
Week 5 - Friday 19th February
Michael Bronstein – (Imperial/Twitter) - Geometric Deep Learning: the Erlangen Programme of ML
Week 6 - Friday 26th February
*Alison Lowndes - (Nvidia) - Omniverse (and ISAAC): the unifying simulation platform.*
Week 7 - Friday 5th March
Dr Alhussein Fawzi – (DeepMind) - Robustness and geometry of deep networks
Week 8 - Friday 12th March
*Professor Angela Schoellig (University of Toronto) - POSTPONED*
Michaelmas Term 2020
*Week 1 - Friday 16th October*
Peter Ondruska (Head of Research @ Lyft Level 5) - New Frontiers of Self-Driving
*Week 2 - Friday 23rd October*
- (Oxford Robotics Institute) - Real-time 3D Navigation and Perception for Dynamic Mobile Robots*
*Week 3 - Friday 30th October*
Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham (DeepMind Research Scientist*) - Generalized black-box verification via randomized smoothing*
*Week 4 - Friday 6th November*
*Alberto Rizzoli – (V7 labs) - Computer Vision in Industry - Turning academic work into impact*
*Week 5 - Friday 13th November*
*Stefano Albrecht – (University of Edinburgh) - Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Systems*
*Week 6 - Friday 20th November*
Reuben Binns (Computer Science) - Human judgements in AI loops
*Week 7 - Friday 27th November*
*Federico Passarin (AirBus) - Spacecraft attitude control: challenges and the role of machine learning*
*Week 8 - Friday 4th December*
Christian Rupprecht (VGG) - Visual Learning with Reduced Supervision**
Hilary Term 2020
Week 1 - Friday 24th January
*Professor Alessandro Abate (Department of Computer Science) - "Automated, Sound and Scalable Analysis and Control of Dynamical Models with SAT and SMT"*
Week 2 - Friday 31st January
*Coorous Mohtadi (Mathworks) - "Are you Ready for AI? Is AI Ready for you?"*
Week 3 - Friday 7th February
*Professor Ingmar Posner (Oxford Robotics Institute) - "Robots Thinking Fast and Slow"*
Week 4 - Friday 14th February
*Robert Birke (ABB) - "Towards Industrial Autonomy"*
Week 5 - Friday 21st February
*Jeffrey Hawke and Corina Gurau (Wayve) - "Learned Urban Driving"*
Week 6 - Friday 28th February
*Pia Dreiseitel (Continental) - With Computer Vision to Vision Zero - A World Without Traffic Accidents"*
Week 7 - Friday 6th March
Steve Spittle & Tom Jones (Satellite Catapult) - Driving Innovation with Geospatial Information**
Week 8 - Friday 13th March
*Professor Nick Hawes – (Oxford Robotics Institute) - "Mission Planning under Uncertainty for Autonomous Robots"*
*Week 9 - Friday 20th March - CANCELLED*
Alison Lowndes (Nvidia) - "Fuelling the Artificial Intelligence Revolution with Gaming"
Michaelmas Term 2019
Week 1 - Friday 18th October
Professor Yarin Gal *– Head of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) Research Group, Department of Computer Science - "Bayesian deep learning. In space"*
Week 2 - Friday 25th October (Host Xiowen Dong)
*Professor Mike Rabbat (Facebook AI Research in Montreal) - "Gossip Algorithms for Distributed Learning"*
Week 3 - Friday 1st November
*Professor Pawan Mudigonda – Optimisation for Vision & Learning Group (OVAL) – Department of Engineering Science - "Optimization for Robust Deep Laarning"*
Week 4 - Friday 8th November (Host Varun Kanade)
Alex Davies (Google) - "AlphaZero - A case study"
Week 5 - Friday 15th November – 11:00 – 12:00 NOTE TIME (Host Shimon Whiteson)
*Hado van Hasselt (Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind) - "Overconfidence in Model-based and Model-free Reinforcement Learning"*
Week 6 - Friday 22nd November (Host Carissa Veilz)
*Gemma Galdon Clavell (Eticas Research & Consulting) - Ethics on the Ground. "How Eticas Audits the Algorithmic Society"*
Week 7 - Friday 29th November
No seminar
*Week 9 - Monday 9th December (LR2) (Host Andrew Zisserman)*
Professor Alyosha Efros (University of Berkeley, California)