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Speaker
Roderick Murray-Smith
Workshop Title: Workshop on Active Inference and Computational Interaction
Biography: Roderick Murray-Smith is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, leading the Inference, Dynamics and Interaction research group. He works in the overlap between machine learning, interaction design and control theory, and publishes in ML venues such as NeurIPS, JMLR, ICLR and HCI venues such as CHI, UIST and ToCHI. His main current activity is the 5 year ERC Advanced grant project, Designing Interaction Freedom via Active Inference (DIFAI). The project’s objectives are to integrate Active Inference theory into the human-computer interaction loop, linking human behaviour via sensors and ML/inference embeddings with dynamic mediating mechanisms to create end-to-end mutually adaptive loops between humans and systems.
In recent years his research has included Machine Learning in Science, multimodal sensor-based interaction with mobile devices, mobile spatial interaction, AR/VR, Brain-Computer interaction and nonparametric machine learning. Prior to this he held positions at the Hamilton Institute, NUIM, Technical University of Denmark, M.I.T., and Daimler-Benz Research, Berlin, and was the Director of SICSA, the Scottish Informatics and Computing Science Alliance. He was also Director of the SICSA Graduate Academy. He works closely with the mobile phone industry, having worked together with Google, Nokia, Samsung, Moodagent, FT/Orange, Microsoft, dotPhoton and Bang & Olufsen, bringing concepts to products with many of them. He was a member of Nokia’s Scientific Advisory Board and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research.