Alexander Gammerman is a British computer scientist, and professor at

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. He is the co-inventor of

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. He is the founding director of the Centre for Machine Learning at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Fellow of the

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Career

Gammerman's academic career has been pursued in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. He started working as a Research Fellow in the

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, St. Petersburg. In 1983, he emigrated to the United Kingdom and was appointed as a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at

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. Together with

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, Gammerman published several articles on Bayesian inference. In 1993, he was appointed to the established chair in Computer Science at

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tenable at

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, where he served as the Head of Computer Science department from 1995 to 2005. In 1998, the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning was established, and Gammerman became the first director of the centre. Gammerman has published 7 books, more than 150 research papers, and has an estimated

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of 34.

Honours and awards

In 1996, Gammerman received the P.W. Allen Award from the

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. In 2006, he became a Honorary Professor, at University College London. In 2009, he became a Distinguished Professor at

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university lo ...

, Spain. In 2019, he received a research grant funded by the energy company Centrica about predicting the time to the next failure of equipment. In 2020, he received the Amazon Research Award for the project titled Conformal Martingales for Change-Point Detection

Selected books

* ''Measures of Complexity'' (2016), Springer, . * ''Algorithmic Learning in a Random World'' (2005), Springer, . * ''Causal Models and Intelligent Data Management'' (1999), Springer, . * ''Probabilistic Reasoning and Bayesian Belief Networks'' (1998), Nelson Thornes Ltd, . * ''Computational Learning and Probabilistic Reasoning'' (1996), Wiley, .

References

External links

Gammerman's University Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gammerman, Alexander Living people Machine learning researchers Soviet computer scientists Soviet mathematicians British mathematicians British computer scientists Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Soviet emigrants to the United Kingdom Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society Artificial intelligence researchers 1949 births Academics of Heriot-Watt University