Gavin Brown
Professor at The University of Manchester
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Brown is Professor of Machine Learning and Director of Research in Computer Science at the University of Manchester, with a research career dating back to 1998 and a PhD awarded the BCS Distinguished Dissertation Prize. He leads both fundamental and applied teams across deep learning, ensemble methods, information-theoretic feature selection, and causal inference, and has secured funding from UK government, EU and industry. His specialties include ensemble learning (AdaBoost, Random Forests, deep ensembles) and mutual-information-based feature selection, applied to domains from traffic forecasting and adaptive compilers to lung cancer biomarker discovery. Known for bridging theory and practice, he has progressed through academic ranks at Manchester since 2004 and combines deep methodological insight with a track record of impactful, interdisciplinary applications.
10 years of coding experience
PhD, Machine Learning, (Winner of BCS Distinguished Dissertation Prize 2004), PhD, Machine Learning, (Winner of BCS Distinguished Dissertation Prize 2004) at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (4)
markdown10
jekyll10
github-pages9
gitpod9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
drgavinbrown/costsensitiveboosting
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
profgavinbrown/profgavinbrown.github.io
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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