The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a prestigious annual international conference in AI.

Dr Yingzhen Li, Lecturer in Machine Learning at the Department of Computing, is selected as a speaker in AAAI 2023 New Faculty Highlights Program. She presented a survey talk about her research in Bayesian machine learning, with applications in uncertainty quantification, continual learning, and repairing neural networks.

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The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a prestigious annual international conference in AI. It promotes theoretical and applied AI research as well as intellectual interchange among researchers and practitioners. The technical program features substantial, original research and practices. Conference panel discussions and invited presentations identify significant social, philosophical, and economic issues influencing AI’s development throughout the world.

The AAAI New Faculty Highlights Program is an invited speaker program highlighting AI researchers who have just begun careers as new faculty members or the equivalent in industry. New Faculty Highlight talks are allotted 30 minutes each; the aim is for these talks to broadly survey the speaker’s research to date. Several talks are released online and publicized each day of the AAAI conference, following which they will be available archivally as part of the conference program. Invited speakers will be further invited to contribute an article to a corresponding series in AI Magazine.

Yingzhen joined Imperial in 2021. She is passionate about building reliable machine learning systems, and her approach combines both Bayesian statistics and deep learning. She has worked extensively on approximate inference methods with applications to Bayesian deep learning and deep generative models, and her work has been applied in industrial systems and implemented in deep learning frameworks. She is a regularly invited speaker and an experienced Area Chair & workshop organiser at international machine learning conferences, and she gave an invited tutorial about her research area at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020.

Yingzhen has uploaded a recording of her talk to her YouTube channel.