Permanent Fellows
Prof. Alex Gammerman
Co-directorAlex Gammerman is a Professor at Royal Holloway, and the founding director of the CRML. He is the co-inventor of Conformal Prediction.
Prof. Vladimir Vovk
Co-directorVladimir Vovk is a Professor at Royal Holloway, and co-director of the CRML. He is the co-inventor of Conformal Prediction and game-theoretic probability.
Prof. Chris Watkins
Fellow (at RHUL)Chris Watkins is a Professor at Royal Holloway. He is the inventor of Q-Learning, and an experts in Epidemiology and Evolutionary Theory.
Prof. Zhiyuan Luo
Fellow (at RHUL)Zhiyuan Luo is a Professor at Royal Holloway, a former researcher at Cable and Wireless UK. He is an expert in Bayesian networks.
Dr. Yuri Kalnishkan
Fellow (at RHUL)Yuri Kalnishkan is a Reader at Royal Holloway. He is an expert in Competitive prediction and Computational learning.
Dr. Ilia Nouretdinov
Fellow (at RHUL)Ilia Nouretdinov is a Teaching Fellow and a former Research Assistant at Royal Holloway.
Dr. Khuong An Nguyen
Fellow (at RHUL)Khuong is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, specialising in Machine Learning for Mobile Computing and Healthcare.
Dr. Matteo Fontana
Fellow (at RHUL)Matteo is a Lecturer at Royal Holloway specialising in Conformal Prediction, and a former Data Scientist at the European Commission.
Honorary and Visiting Fellows
Prof. Vladimir Vapnik
FellowVladimir Vapnik is an Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway and a consultant at NEC Lab. He is the inventor of Support Vector Machine, and co-founder of Statistical Learning Theory.
Prof. Glenn Shafer
FellowGlenn Shafer is a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway and a Professor at Rutgers Business School. He is the co-founder of Dempster–Shafer theory.
Prof. Leonid Levin
FellowLeonid Levin is a Professor at Boston University and a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway. He is the co-founder of NP-completeness theory.
Prof. Xiaohui Liu
FellowXiaohui Liu is the Director of the Centre for Intelligent Data Analysis at Brunel University London and a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway.
Dr. Vladimir V'yugin
FellowDr. V'yugin is a Research Affiliate at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow and an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway.
Prof. Lars Carlsson
FellowLars Carlsson is Head of Computing Department at Jönköping University (Sweden) and Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway.
Dr. Fedor Zhdanov
FellowFedor is a Scientist at Amazon, working in their AWS team. He worked for Microsoft from 2014 to 2016.
External Fellows
Dr. Harris Papadopoulos
FellowHarris Papadopoulos is a Professor at Frederick University, Cyprus, and a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway.
Dr. Alexey Chernov
FellowAlexey Chernov is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Brighton, and a former Visiting Researcher at Royal Holloway.
Dr. Wouter Koolen
FellowWouter Koolen is a Research Fellow at CWI (Amsterdam) and a Visiting Researcher at Royal Holloway.
Dr. Paolo Toccaceli
FellowPaolo Toccaceli was a Research Assistant at Royal Holloway, working on the Machine Learning For Chemical Synthesis project.
Dr. Ivan Petej
FellowIvan Petej is a consultant at Algorhytmic Ltd. He is an expert in probabilistic, in particular Venn-Abers, prediction.
Dr. Raisa Dzhamtyrova
FellowRaisa completed her PhD in online machine learning. She did her postdoc at the Alan Turing Institute.
James Gammerman
FellowJames Gammerman is a senior machine learning engineer at So Energy. He previously worked at Centrica (2017-2022).
Late Fellows
Prof. Alexei Chervonenkis
Late FellowAlexei Chervonenkis (1938 - 2014) was a Professor at Royal Holloway and also worked for the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the co-founder of statistical learning theory.
Prof. Ray Solomonoff
Late FellowRay Solomonoff (1926 - 2009) was a Visting Professor at Royal Holloway. He was the inventor of algorithmic probability, and algorithmic information theory.
Roger Thatcher
Late FellowRoger Thatcher (1926 - 2010) - a distinguished British statistician. He was Registrar General for England and Wales and Director of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys from 1978 until 1986. He was also responsible for the 1981 Census in the United Kingdom.
Prof. Jorma Rissanen
FellowJorma Rissansen (1932 - 2020) is a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway. He is the inventor of Minimum Description Length principle.