Moray Allan

Current

• Post-doctoral researcher at INRIA
• Debian Developer at Debian

Past

• Research student at University of Edinburgh

Education

• The University of Edinburgh
• University of Cambridge
• The University of Edinburgh

• University of Cambridge
• Winchester College

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Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio

Moray Allan’s Summary

Machine learning: supervised and unsupervised learning; generative and discriminative probabilistic models, optimisation, Monte Carlo methods, graphical models, Bayesian modelling; classification, regression, time series modelling; kernel methods, Gaussian processes, support vector machines

Programming: 20 years' experience; have worked on open source software using a variety of languages; most recent large projects used C, Perl, MATLAB

Analysis: spreadsheets, databases, data-mining techniques

Internet: website design, Apache, CGI, networking

System administration: ran servers providing web server, version control repository (SVN, CVS), file server (NFS, NIS, Samba, FTP), mail server (IMAP, SMTP), UNIX shell facilities

Moray Allan’s Specialties:

Machine learning, data mining, analysis, data mining, internet

Moray Allan’s Experience

• Post-doctoral researcher

  INRIA

  (Government Agency; Research industry)

  December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  I am carrying out post-doctoral research on machine learning for computer vision within the Learning and Recognition in Vision (LEAR) group at INRIA.

• Debian Developer

  Debian

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

• Research student

  University of Edinburgh

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  October 2003 — 2007 (4 years)

  I was the Teaching Assistant for the Data Mining and Exploration course, and gave tutorials to Informatics MSc students on the Learning from Data course.

Moray Allan’s Education

• The University of Edinburgh

  PhD , Machine learning , 2003 — 2007

• University of Cambridge

  Management Studies at Judge Business School 2002 — 2003

• The University of Edinburgh

  MSc , Informatics , 2001 — 2002

• University of Cambridge

  MA , Theology and Religious Studies , 1998 — 2001

• Winchester College

  1993 — 1998

  A grades in A-level Maths (grade 1 in S Maths), Further Maths, Latin, Greek, AO-level French

Additional Information

Moray Allan’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio

Moray Allan’s Interests:

Classical music, history of religion, open source development

Moray Allan’s Groups:

•    Judge Business School
•    Edinburgh Informatics Alumni
•    Debian Developers
•    University of Edinburgh
•    PASCAL Network of Excellence
•    Machine Learning Connection

Moray Allan’s Honors:

2008 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference

2007 Research featured on BBC Radio 4

2005 Selected for oral presentation at British Machine Vision Conference

2004 Selected for oral presentation at Neural Information Processing Systems conference

2003 Three-year PhD research studentship (funding for fees
and grant) from Microsoft Research

1999 Award from Jesus College, Cambridge, for performance in university exams

1993 Five-year academic scholarship to attend Winchester College

Moray Allan’s Contact Settings

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