The following selection was announced by Rick Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft Research, during the launch of the initiative on October 5, 2011, and the students started their PhD course in September 2012.
Machine Learning Markets
Supervisor: Amos Storkey, University of Edinburgh
MSR Supervisors: Peter Key, Thore Graepel
Student: Jinli Hu (web (opens in new tab))
Statistical Language Processing for Programming Language Text
Supervisor: Charles Sutton, University of Edinburgh
MSR Supervisors: Andy Gordon, Thore Graepel
Student: Miltiadis Allamanis (web (opens in new tab))
Machine Learning Methods for Formal Dynamical Systems: a Systems Biology Case Study
Supervisor: Jane Hillston (web (opens in new tab))/Guido Sanguinetti (web (opens in new tab)), University of Edinburgh
MSR Supervisors: Luca Cardelli, Andrew Phillips
Student: Anastasis Georgoulas (web (opens in new tab))
Holistic Evaluation in LINQ
Supervisor: Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh
MSR Supervisor: Gavin Bierman
Student: Fabian Nagel (web (opens in new tab))
