Max Planck Lecture Biography
17 October 2024 at 16:00 - 18:00 | Lecture Hall 2D5, Heisenbergstraße 1, Stuttgart

The Atomic Human: Understanding ourselves in the age of AI

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The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is delighted to invite you to its 2024 Max Planck Lecture in Stuttgart.

Speaker Biography

Neil Lawrence (University of Cambridge)

Neil Lawrence is the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge where he leads the University’s flagship mission on AI, AI@Cam. He has been working on machine learning models for over 25 years. He returned to academia in 2019 after three years as Director of Machine Learning at Amazon. His main interest is the interaction of machine learning with the real world. This interest was triggered by deploying machine learning in the African context, where ‘end-to-end’ solutions are normally required. This has inspired new research directions at the interface of machine learning and systems research, this work is funded by a Senior AI Fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute. Neil is also visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and the co-host of Talking Machines. He is the author of the book The Atomic Human (release date 6th June 2024).