Research highlights Awarded a Turing AI fellowship to work on human-centric ML |FAT-forensics: python toolbox on fairness, accountability and transparency now available! | Check out our tutorial on explainability, 'What and How of Machine Learning Transparency - Building Bespoke Explainability Tools with Interoperable Algorithmic Components' | HDR-UK funded project on personalised health scores | Join our UKRI CDT in Interactive AI | Join our EPSRC CDT in Digital Health and Care

About

Turing AI Fellow and Professor in Data Science and AI at the Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol. My research interests lie around the study of the foundations of machine learning and the way machine learning systems and humans interact and collaborate in diverse domains including healthcare, vision, climate science, music information retrieval and more.

Short bio. After working as lead data scientist developing large-scale recommender systems in industry, in 2014 I moved to IPL, Universitat de Valencia, where I was a Research Fellow working with Prof Gustau Camps-Valls. Before, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Bristol, working with Prof Tijl de Bie. I completed my PhD in Machine Learning in 2011, under the supervision of Prof Jesus Cid-Sueiro.

Team

I am currently looking for outstanding PhD candidates / postdocs interested in working in human-centric Machine Learning. Contact me for further information. Current members:

  • Chris McWilliams (Research Fellow)
  • Alex Hepburn (Senior Research Associate)
  • Matt Clifford (PhD student)
  • Jonathan Erskine (PhD student)
  • Weisong Yang (PhD student)
  • Marceli Wac (PhD student)
  • Dan Kumpik (PhD student)
  • Amarpal Sahota (PhD student)
  • Elena Fillola Mayoral (PhD student)
  • Jeff Clark (Research Fellow)
  • Tashi Namgyal (PhD student)
  • Yujie Dai (PhD student)
  • Taku Yamagata (Senior Research Associate)
  • Nawid Keshtmand (Research Associate)

Turing AI Fellowship: Interactive Annotations in AI

My Turing AI fellowship focuses on human-centric machine learning. In the team, we explore new extended forms of supervision and interaction between AI systems and humans to build trust and accountability while making the learning process more efficient. In particular, we develop methods for humans to provide informative and actionable feedback in order to shape the behaviour of AI systems, allowing humans in return to fully understand and measure the effect of their contribution. The fellowship caters for data and AI practitioners, domain experts and end-users across multiple fields, including health, IT, engineering and social media. For example, novel tools for adapting decision support systems through rich annotations that accurately reflect their needs and constraints are co-created with clinicians in intensive care units across the UK, changing the mindset from the current practice of clinicians being the ones that adjust to the way that AI systems work.

Selected current research projects

P-NEWS

P-NEWS: personalised early warning scores for preventing unplanned critical admissions. (HDR-UK)

Sphere

Developing sensors and data analytics for the home to diagnose and help manage health and wellbeing conditions. This technology will aid early diagnosis, lifestyle change and the ability of patients to live at home. (EPSRC)

Opera

OPERA investigates a new unobtrusive sensing technology for contextual sensing to facilitate new applications in indoor monitoring and Ambient Assisted Living. (EPSRC)

Publications

Please check my Google Scholar profile for an up-to-date list.

Contact

Department of Engineering Mathematics, Ada Lovelace Building
University of Bristol
University Walk
BS8 1TW
Bristol, United Kingdom

enrsr@bristol.ac.uk