People

The people behind SOFAIR

A distributed team across UCL, Edinburgh, Oxford, and Cambridge, organised around problems rather than departments.

45 members

David Barber

University College London

Director of SOFAIR

Foundation Models

Maneesh Sahani

University College London

SOFAIR Associate Director - Novel Architecture Co-Lead

Lourdes De Agapito Vicente

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Brooks Paige

University College London

SOFAIR Trainig Lead

Ricardo Silva

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Siddharth Swaroop

University College London

SOFAIR Scientific Engagement

Gabriel Brostow

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Niloy Mitra

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Mario Giulianelli

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Marc Deisenroth

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Vasileios Lampos

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Emine Yilmaz

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Ran Ben Basat

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Mirco Musolesi

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Peter Orbanz

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Arthur Gretton

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Jagmohan Chauhan

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Andrew Saxe

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Elliot J. Crowley

University of Edinburgh

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Henry Gouk

University of Edinburgh

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Esmeralda Whitammer

University of Edinburgh

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Caswell Barry

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Siddharth Narayanaswamy

University of Edinburgh

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Luo Mai

University of Edinburgh

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Michael Wooldridge

University of Oxford

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Multi-agent systemsAgentic AI

Mark van der Wilk

University of Oxford

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Gaussian processesBayesian inferenceLearning theory

Michael Bronstein

University of Oxford

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Geometric deep learningGraph learningArchitectures

Nic Lane

University of Cambridge

SOFAIR Distributed Compute Co-Lead

ML systemsDistributed trainingFederated learning

Mirella Lapata

University of Edinburgh

SOFAIR Associate Director

Natural language processingLarge language modelsText generation

Amos Storkey

University of Edinburgh

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Deep learningBayesian nonparametricsGenerative models

Yarin Gal

University of Oxford

SOFAIR Associate Director

UncertaintyBayesian deep learningSafe AI

Pontus Stenetorp

University College London

SOFAIR Open Source Model Development Lead

Leena Chennuru Vankadara

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

James Hetherington

University College London

SOFAIR Director of Infrastructure

Geraint Rees

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Ehsan Shareghi

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Eric de Silva

University College London

SOFAIR LAB MANAGER

Yao Lu

University College London

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Magda Hagen

University College London

SOFAIR Operations Manager

Claire Hudson

University College London

SOFAIR Cohort Manager

Meghdad Kurmanji

University of Oxford

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Ivan Titov

University of Edinburgh

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Frank Keller

University of Edinburgh

SOFAIR Co-Investigator

Finnian Kane

University College London

SOFAIR PhD Student

Adam Vawda-Oomerjee

University College London

SOFAIR PhD Student

SOFAIR's postdoctoral and PhD cohorts are growing across the consortium. See funded positions for how to join the lab.