Professor of Machine Learning
Academic Division: Information Engineering
Research group: Computational and Biological Learning
Telephone: +44 1223 7 48517
Email: ret26@cam.ac.uk
Research interests
I'm Rich Turner, a Professor of Machine Learning in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge.
I am the Cambridge Lead for the EPSRC Probabilistic AI Hub.
My previous roles include Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research in the AI4Science and AI teams where I co-led the team that built the Aurora Earth System foundation model and Research Lead for AI Weather Prediction at the Alan Turing Institute who co-funded the Aardvark Weather project with Microsoft and the EPSRC.
Other past roles include founding Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in the Application of Artificial Intelligence to the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER CDT), and Course Director of the Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil programme. I have received over £40 million of funding as a Principal or Co-Investigator. I've been awarded the Cambridge Students' Union Teaching Award for Lecturing. My research has featured in the Times, Guardian, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and on BBC television and radio.
My current research interests include:
- Probabilistic Machine Learning Fundamentals (including generative models and uncertainty-aware approaches)
- Environmental Prediction (especially for weather, earth systems, and climate prediction)
- Spatio-temporal Modelling (especially using a fusion of large-scale deep learning and probabilistic modelling for scientific applications)
- Below you'll find information about my group.
You can stay up to date with my most recent research on Google Scholar.
Biography
Richard E. Turner is Professor of Machine Learning in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge. He is the Cambridge Lead for the EPSRC Probabilistic AI Hub. His previous roles include Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research in the AI4Science and AI teams where he co-led the team that built the Aurora Earth System foundation model and Research Lead for AI Weather Prediction at the Alan Turing Institute who co-funded the Aardvark Weather project with Microsoft and the EPSRC. Other past roles include founding Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in the Application of Artificial Intelligence to the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER CDT), and Course Director of the Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil programme. He has received over £40 million of funding as a Principal or Co-Investigator and currently leads the Cumulus project which is developing AI subseasonal forecasting methods for agriculture in Ghana, Senegal and Kenya. He has been awarded the Cambridge Students' Union Teaching Award for Lecturing. His research has featured in the Times, Guardian, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and on BBC television and radio.
Prof. Turner was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge where he took Natural Sciences specialising in theoretical physics. He did his PhD at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL and then held a Postdoctoral Fellowship between Cambridge and New York University, prior to taking his current position at Cambridge.