Matt Graham
Research Associate at Newcastle University & the Alan Turing Institute
m·graham@turing·ac·uk
matt-graham.github.io
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Education
09/2013 – 09/2017
PhD in Informatics,
University of Edinburgh
Supervisor:
Amos Storkey,
Project:
Auxiliary variable MCMC methods
09/2012 – 09/2013
MSc by Research in Neuroinformatics,
University of Edinburgh
Result:
Distinction,
Project:
Insect olfactory landmark navigation
10/2008 – 06/2012
MEng in Information and Computer Engineering,
University of Cambridge
Result:
First-class Honours / Distinction,
Project:
Measuring tissue stiffness with ultrasound
Experience
03/2020 –
Research Associate,
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University
Postdoctoral research position with
Chris Oates
.
11/2017 – 03/2020
Research Fellow,
Dept. of Statistics & Applied Probability, National University of Singapore
Postdoctoral research position with
Alexandre Thiery
.
07/2010 – 09/2010
Junior software engineer,
Granta Design
, Cambridge
Summer internship at materials information software firm.
07/2009 – 08/2009
Educational resource development,
NRICH
, Cambridge
Summer internship with educational charity.
08/2007 – 08/2008
Engineering assistant,
Mott MacDonald
, Newcastle
Year in Industry
placement in regional office of civil engineering and development consultancy.
Publications
Journal
12/2017
Asymptotically exact inference in differentiable generative models
Matthew M. Graham
and Amos J. Storkey
Electronic Journal of Statistics
Conference
08/2017
Continuously tempered Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Matthew M. Graham
and Amos J. Storkey
Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
04/2017
Asymptotically exact inference in differentiable generative models
Matthew M. Graham
and Amos J. Storkey
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
05/2016
Pseudo-Marginal Slice Sampling
Iain Murray and
Matthew M. Graham
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
Software
05/2016
Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions
Theano Development Team
Teaching
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
09/2016 – 04/2017
Teaching assistant,
Machine Learning Practical
09/2016 – 12/2016
Tutor,
Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
01/2016 – 04/2016
Tutor & teaching assistant,
Probabilistic Modelling and Reasoning
11/2015 – 12/2015
Marker,
Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
09/2015 – 01/2016
Demonstrator,
Machine Learning Practical
01/2015 – 04/2015
Tutor,
Probabilistic Modelling and Reasoning
11/2014 – 12/2014
Marker,
Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
09/2014 – 12/2014
Tutor,
Information Theory
01/2014 – 04/2014
Tutor,
Probabilistic Modelling and Reasoning
Outreach
07/2015 – 05/2016
Volunteer tutor,
Queensferry High School
, Queensferry
One-to-one tutoring in applied mathematics through
STEM Ambassadors
scheme.
01/2010 – 03/2011
School placements,
STIMULUS
, Cambridge
Placements at two local secondary schools in Cambridge assisting in teaching of STEM subjects.
10/2008 – 06/2012
Outreach volunteer,
Cambridge University Engineering Department
Assisting in workshops aimed at encouraging young people to consider engineering careers.
Awards and scholarships
12/2016
Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference workshop, Disney Research Paper Award
05/2015
Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, Summer School Bursary
09/2012
University of Edinburgh, Neuroinformatics Doctoral Training Centre Scholarship
2010-2012
University of Cambridge, Jesus College, Scholarships (Engineering Part IB/IIA/IIB)
Computing
Languages
Python
(expert)
, C
(proficient)
, MATLAB
(proficient)
Frameworks
NumPy, SciPy, JAX, FEniCS
Workflow
Git, Bash, Jupyter notebooks
Markup
LaTeX, Markdown, HTML
Courses
08/2016
Mountain Leader Award (summer) training,
Mountain Training UK
11/2015
Outdoors Emergency First Aid,
British Association of Ski Patrollers
10/2015 – 11/2015
Scientific Computing,
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh
08/2015 – 09/2015
Machine Learning Summer School, Kyoto University
01/2014 – 03/2014
Beginners Chinese (1.2),
Confucius Institute for Scotland, University of Edinburgh
09/2013 – 11/2013
Beginners Chinese (1.1),
Confucius Institute for Scotland, University of Edinburgh
10/2010 – 03/2011
Intermediate German (3),
Language Unit, Cambridge University Engineering Department
10/2009 – 03/2010
Intermediate German (2),
Language Unit, Cambridge University Engineering Department