Professor Tom Rainforth
Associate Professor & Tutorial Fellow in Statistics
Professor Tom Rainforth
Associate Professor & Tutorial Fellow in Statistics
Tom Rainforth is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics and a Tutorial Fellow of Mansfield College. His research covers a wide range of topics in and around machine learning and experimental design, with areas of particular interest including Bayesian experimental design, deep learning, representation learning, generative models, Monte Carlo methods, active learning, and approximate inference. He currently holds a ERC Starting Grant titled Data-Driven Algorithms for Data Acquisition (Feb 2024 - Feb 2029, funded by the UKRI Horizon Guarantee Scheme). He completed his DPhil in Probabilistic Programming and Machine Learning in 2017 at the University of Oxford, and previously held positions as a Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science at Christ Church College, and then as a Senior Research Fellow in Statistical Machine Learning at the Department of Statistics.