University of Edinburgh Microsoft Research Joint Initiative in Informatics

Established: October 5, 2011

The following selection was announced in December 2012, and the students are starting September 2013, or later.

Paul-Jules MicoletPerformance Portability for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Systems
Supervisor: Christophe Dubach
MSR Supervisor: Ant Rowstron
Student: Paul-Jules Micolet (web (opens in new tab))

 

Provenance for Configuration Language Security
Supervisor: James Cheney
MSR Supervisor: Dimitrios Vytiniotis
Student: Weili Fu (web (opens in new tab))

 

Marcin SzymczakBayesian Probabilistic Programming for Security
Supervisor: David Aspinall
MSR Supervisor: Andy Gordon
Student: Marcin Szymczak (web (opens in new tab))

 

Solving the Problem of Cascading Costs: Better Approximate Bayesian Inference for Data Pipelines
Supervisor: Iain Murray
MSR Supervisor: John Winn
Student: Georgios Papamakarios (web (opens in new tab))