# 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"](/seminars/cyrill-stachniss-seminar "Cyrill Stachniss Seminar")\*
**Week 2 - Friday 27th January\**
*Amir Patel -* (*University of Cape Town) -* *"[Studying cheetahs to build the next generation of robots](/seminars/amir-patel-seminar "Amir Patel Seminar")*" @11:00am
**Week 3 - Friday 3rd February\**
*Minqi Jiang - (UCL & Meta AI) - ["An Introduction to Unsupervised Environment Design"](/seminars/minqi-jiang-seminar "Minqi Jiang Seminar")*
**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.*](/seminars/brian-mullins-seminar "Brian Mullins Seminar")
**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*](/seminars/ilija-bogunovic-seminar "Ilija Bogunovic Seminar")"
**Week 4 - Friday 4th November**
*Pia Dreiseitel (Continental) - ["**Vision Zero** AI for Assistance Systems and Driverless Mobility with Zero Accidents"](/seminars/pia-dreiseitel-seminar-1 "Pia Dreiseitel Seminar (1)")*
**Week 5 - Friday 11th November**
*Noam Brown (FAIR) - [ReBeL: Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and Search for Imperfect-Information Games](/seminars/noam-brown-seminar "Noam Brown Seminar")\*
**Week 6 - Friday 18th November**
*Dr Elizaveta Semenova (Dept. of Computer Science) - [Deep Generative Modelling Aiding Spatial Statistics](/seminars/elizaveta-semenova-seminar "Elizaveta Semenova Seminar")\*
**Week 7 - Friday 25th November**
*Aldo Pacchiano (Microsoft Research NYC) - ["On the Statistical Complexity of Batch Learning with Function Approximation: Theory and Algorithms". (remotely)](/seminars/aldo-pacchiano-seminar "Aldo Pacchiano Seminar")*
**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](/seminars/fotios-logothetis "Fotios Logothetis")\*
**Week 2 - Friday 28th January**
*Prof. Jakob Foerster (Dept. of Engineering Science) - [Zero-shot Coordination and Off-belief Learning](/seminars/jakob-foerster-seminar "Jakob Foerster Seminar")\*
**Week 3 - Friday 4th February**
*Ciprian Antaloae (Hyundai) - [Application of time series predictions for driving at the Nurburging - current results & challenge](/seminars/ciprian-antaloae-seminar "Ciprian Antaloae Seminar")*
**Week 4 - Friday 11th Februry**
*Prof. Seth Flexman (Dept. of Computer Science) - [Unrepresentative Big Surveys Significantly Overestimate US Vaccine Uptake](/seminars/seth-flaxman-seminar "Seth Flaxman Seminar")\*
**Week 5 -Friday 18th February**
*Soumen Chatterjee (Amazon Web Services) - [Human 3.0 to Peter 2.0: Right to Thrive with AUgmented Intelligence](/seminars/soumen-chatterjee-seminar "AIMS Semianr - Soumen Chatterjee")\*
**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](/seminars/giovanni-marchisio-seminar "Giovanni Marchisio Seminar")\*
**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?](/seminars/davide-zilli-seminar "Davide Zilli Seminar")*
**Week 2 - Friday 22nd October**
*Dr Michael Schaub (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - [Signal Processing on Graphs and Simplicial Complexes](/seminars/michael-schaub-seminar "Michael Schaub Seminar")\*
**Week 3 - Friday 29th October**
*David Petit (Deimos Space) - [Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence: how AI is impacting the sector](/seminars/david-petit-seminar "David Petit Seminar")\*
**Week 4 - Friday 5th November**
*Borja de Balle Pigem (DeepMind) -* “*[Reconstructing training data from ML models: attacks and mitigations](/seminars/borja-de-balle-pigem-seminar "Borja De Balle Pigem Seminar")"*
**Week 5 - Friday 12th November**
*Professor Nick Hawes (ORI) - [Mission Planning with Uncertain Models](/seminars/nick-hawes-seminar-1 "Nick Hawes Seminar (1)")\*
**Week 6 - Friday 19th November**
*Orhan Firat (Google Brain) - ["Adventures in Large-Scale Multitask Learning for Text in the Wild"](/seminars/orhan-firat-seminar "Orhan Firat Seminar")\*
**Week 7 - Friday 26th November**
*Professor Alessandro Abate (Department of Computer Science) - "[Certified learning, or learning for verification?"](/seminars/alessandro-abate-seminar-2 "Alessandro Abate Seminar (2)") \*
**Week 8 - Friday 3rd December**
*Ankush Gupta (DeepMind/AIMS Alumni) - [Self-supervised Representation for Perception and Control](/seminars/ankush-gupta-seminar "Ankush Gupta Seminar")\*
### 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](/seminars/alessandro-abate-seminar-1 "Alessandro Abate Seminar (1)")\*
**Week 2- Friday 29th January**
Sergey Tulyakov (*Lead Research Scientist at Snap Inc.) - [Representations for Content Creation, Manipulation and Animation](/seminars/sergey-tulyakov-seminar "Sergey Tulyakov Seminar")\*
**Week 3 - Friday 5th February**
*Professor Noa Zilberman (Department of Engineering Science) - [Do Switches Dream of Machine Learning?](/seminars/noa-zilberman-seminar "Noa Zilberman Seminar")\*
**Week 4 - Friday 12th February**
*Professor Gilles Louppe (University of Liege (Belgium)) - [The frontier of simulation-based inference](/seminars/professor-gilles-louppe-seminar "Professor Gilles Louppe Seminar")\*
**Week 5 - Friday 19th February**
*Michael Bronstein – (Imperial/Twitter) - [Geometric Deep Learning: the Erlangen Programme of ML](/seminars/michael-bronstein-seminar "Michael Bronstein Seminar")*
**Week 6 - Friday 26th February**
*Alison Lowndes - (Nvidia) - [Omniverse (and ISAAC): the unifying simulation platform.](/seminars/alison-lowndes-seminar-1 "Alison Lowndes Seminar (1)")\*
**Week 7 - Friday 5th March**
*Dr Alhussein Fawzi – (DeepMind) - [Robustness and geometry of deep networks](/seminars/alhussein-fawzi-seminar "Alhussein Fawzi Seminar")*
**Week 8 - Friday 12th March**
*Professor Angela Schoellig (University of Toronto) - POSTPONED\*
### Michaelmas Term 2020
**Week 1 - Friday 16th October\**
*[Peter Ondruska](https://www.ondruska.com/) (Head of Research @ Lyft Level 5) -* [*New Frontiers of Self-Driving*](/seminars/peter-ondruska-seminar "Peter Ondruska Seminar")
**Week 2 - Friday 23rd October\**
* ([Oxford Robotics Institute](https://ori.ox.ac.uk/ori-people/maurice-fallon/)) - Real-time 3D Navigation and Perception for Dynamic Mobile Robots\*
**Week 3 - Friday 30th October\**
*[Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham](https://dvij.github.io/) ([DeepMind](https://deepmind.com/) 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](/seminars/alberto-rizzoli-seminar "Alberto Rizzoli Seminar")\*
**Week 5 - Friday 13th November\**
*Stefano Albrecht – (University of Edinburgh) - [Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Systems](/seminars/stefano-albrecht "Stefano Albrecht")\*
**Week 6 - Friday 20th November\**
*[Reuben Binns](https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/reuben.binns/) ([Computer Science](http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk)) - [Human judgements in AI loops](/seminars/reuben-binns-seminar "Reuben Binns Seminar")*
**Week 7 - Friday 27th November\**
*Federico Passarin (AirBus) - [Spacecraft attitude control: challenges and the role of machine learning](/seminars/federico-passarin-seminar "Federico Passarin Seminar")\*
**Week 8 - Friday 4th December\**
*Christian Rupprecht (VGG) - [Visual Learning with Reduced Supervision](/seminars/christian-rupprecht-seminar "Christian Rupprecht Seminar")***\**
### Hilary Term 2020
**Week 1 - Friday 24th January**
*[Professor Alessandro Abate](https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/alessandro.abate/) (Department of Computer Science) - "[Automated, Sound and Scalable Analysis and Control of Dynamical Models with SAT and SMT](/seminars/alessandro-abate-seminar "Alessandro Abate Seminar")"\*
**Week 2 - Friday 31st January**
*Coorous Mohtadi (Mathworks) - "[Are you Ready for AI? Is AI Ready for you?](/seminars/coorous-mohtadi-seminar "Coorous Mohtadi Seminar")"\*
**Week 3 - Friday 7th February**
*[Professor Ingmar Posner](/people/ingmar-posner/) (Oxford Robotics Institute) - "[Robots Thinking Fast and Slow](/seminars/ingmar-posner-seminar "Ingmar Posner Seminar")"\*
**Week 4 - Friday 14th February**
*Robert Birke (ABB) - "[Towards Industrial Autonomy](/seminars/robert-birke-seminar "Robert Birke Seminar")"\*
**Week 5 - Friday 21st February**
*[Jeffrey Hawke](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-hawke) and [Corina Gurau](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/corina-gurau-46ba97165) ([Wayve](https://wayve.ai/)) - "[Learned Urban Driving](/seminars/jeffrey-hawke-seminar "Jeffrey Hawke Seminar")"\*
**Week 6 - Friday 28th February**
*[Pia Dreiseitel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pia-dreiseitel-4a88b793) (Continental) - [With Computer Vision to Vision Zero - A World Without Traffic Accidents](/seminars/pia-dreiseitel-seminar "Pia Dreiseitel Seminar")"\*
**Week 7 - Friday 6th March**
*Steve Spittle & Tom Jones (Satellite Catapult) - [Driving Innovation with Geospatial Information](/seminars/steve-spittle-seminar "Steve Spittle Seminar")***\**
**Week 8 - Friday 13th March**
*[Professor Nick Hawes](/people/nick-hawes/) – (Oxford Robotics Institute) - "[Mission Planning under Uncertainty for Autonomous Robots](/seminars/nick-hawes-seminar "Nick Hawes Seminar")"\*
**Week 9 - Friday 20th March - CANCELLED\**
*[Alison Lowndes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonlowndes/?originalSubdomain=uk) (Nvidia) - "*[*Fuelling the Artificial Intelligence Revolution with Gaming"*](/seminars/alison-lowndes-seminar "Alison Lowndes Seminar")
### Michaelmas Term 2019
**Week 1 - Friday 18th October**
[*Professor Yarin Gal*](http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/yarin.gal/) *– Head of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) Research Group, Department of Computer Science - "[Bayesian deep learning. In space](/seminars/yarin-gal-seminar "Yarin Gal Seminar")"\*
**Week 2 - Friday 25th October (Host Xiowen Dong)**
*[Professor Mike Rabbat](https://research.fb.com/people/rabbat-mike/) (Facebook AI Research in Montreal) - "[Gossip Algorithms for Distributed Learning](/seminars/mike-rabbat-seminar "Mike Rabbat Seminar")"\*
**Week 3 - Friday 1st November**
*[Professor Pawan Mudigonda](/people/pawan-mudigonda/) – Optimisation for Vision & Learning Group (OVAL) – Department of Engineering Science - "[Optimization for Robust Deep Laarning](/seminars/pawan-mudigonda-seminar-at-the-department-of-engineering-science-university-of-oxford "Pawan Mudigonda Seminar")"\*
**Week 4 - Friday 8th November (Host Varun Kanade)**
*[Alex Davies](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-davies-13a53521/?originalSubdomain=uk) (Google) - "[AlphaZero - A case study](/seminars/alex-davies-seminar "Alex Davies Seminar")"*
**Week 5 - Friday 15th November – 11:00 – 12:00 NOTE TIME (Host Shimon Whiteson)**
*[Hado van Hasselt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hadovanhasselt/?originalSubdomain=uk) (Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind) - "[Overconfidence in Model-based and Model-free Reinforcement Learning"](/seminars/hado-van-hasselt-seminar "Hado van Hasselt Seminar")\*
**Week 6 - Friday 22nd November (Host Carissa Veilz)**
*[Gemma Galdon Clavell](https://re-publica.com/en/member/4892) (Eticas Research & Consulting) - Ethics on the Ground. ["How Eticas Audits the Algorithmic Society"](/seminars/gemma-galdon-seminar "Gemma Galdon Seminar")\*
**Week 7 - Friday 29th November**
*No seminar*
**Week 9 - Monday 9th December (LR2) (Host Andrew Zisserman)\**
*[Professor Alyosha Efros](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~efros/) (University of Berkeley, California)*