Andrew Herbert is a distinguished engineer and managing director of Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Initially joining Microsoft Research in 2001, as an assistant director, in March 2003 he succeeded the founding director, Roger Needham. Herbert’s research interests include networks, operating systems, programming languages and distributed information sharing.
Christopher Bishop
Chief Research Scientist
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Chris Bishop is Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where he helps with the strategic direction and planning for the lab and jointly leads the Machine Learning and Perception Group. His research interests include probabilistic approaches to machine learning, as well as their application to fields such as biomedical sciences and healthcare.He is also a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Siân Lindley
Researcher
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Siân is a post-doc researcher in the Socio-Digital Systems group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. She has a background in the fields of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction, and is interested in exploring the ways in which people use and wish to use technology. More specifically, she has undertaken fieldwork to examine the ways in which prototypes, including new communication devices and cameras, are used and appropriated in everyday life, with the aim of better understanding how technology can be designed to support expression, creativity and reflection.
Sethu Vijayakumar
Director
IPAB, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
Sethu Vijayakumar is the Director of the Institute for Perception, Action and Behavior (IPAB) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Since August 2007, he holds a Senior Research Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, co-funded by Microsoft Research in Learning Robotics. He also holds additional appointments as an Adjunct Faculty of the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles and as a Visiting Research Scientist at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan. His research interest spans a broad interdisciplinary curriculum involving basic research in the fields of statistical machine learning, robotics, human motor control, Bayesian inference techniques and computational neuroscience. Prof. Vijayakumar has pioneered the use of large scale machine learning techniques for adaptation and learning control of large degree of freedom anthropomorphic robotic systems including the SARCOS humanoid, ASIMO, KUKA robot arm and Nao mini-humanoids.
Antonio Criminisi
Researcher
Microsoft Research Cambridge
In October 2002 Antonio Criminisi joined the Machine Learning and Perception group (MLP) at Microsoft Research in Cambridge as a Researcher. Antonio’s current research interests include; image-based modelling of spaces, image and video analysis and editing; one-to-one teleconferencing; 3D reconstruction from images with application to virtual reality; forensic science; image-based rendering and history of art.
Drew Purves
Research Scientist
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Drew Purves is a permanent research scientist in the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group (CEES), a part of the Computational Science Lab at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Within CEES, he leads the Plant Ecology research unit and leads some of the work in the Spatial Ecology and Biogeography research unit.
Andrew Herbert