Mark Girolami | |
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Born | [1] | August 29, 1963
Alma mater | University of Glasgow (BSc) University of Paisley (PhD) |
Awards | Turing Talk (2020) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | IBM University of Glasgow University College London University of Warwick Imperial College London University of Cambridge |
Thesis | Self-organising neural networks for signal separation (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Colin Fyfe [2] |
Website | www |
Mark A. Girolami (born 1963) [1] FREng FRSE is a British civil engineer, statistician and data engineer. [3] He has held the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge since 2019. [4] [5] He has been the chief scientist of the Alan Turing Institute since 2021. [6] He is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, [7] and winner of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. [8] Girolami is a founding editor of the journal Data-Centric Engineering, [9] [10] and also served as the program director for data-centric engineering at Turing. [11]
Girolami studied[ clarification needed ] at the University of Glasgow and spent ten years working for IBM as an engineer from 1985 to 1994. [1] After this he undertook, on a part-time basis, a PhD in statistical signal processing whilst working at the University of Paisley. [2] [12]
In 2024, the University of the West of Scotland awarded Girolami an honorary doctorate recognising his exceptional achievements in engineering and computing. [13]
After his PhD, Girolami held senior positions at the University of Glasgow, and University College London. [14]
Before joining the University of Cambridge, Girolami worked at Imperial College London. [4]
His publications [5] [15] include:
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