Mark Girolami

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Mark Girolami
Born (1963-08-29) August 29, 1963 (age 61) [1]
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.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/mag92 OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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]

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Education

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]

Career and research

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]

Selected publications

His publications [5] [15] include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Anon (2019). "Girolami, Prof. Mark" . Who's Who (online Oxford University Press  ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U292496.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 Mark Girolami at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. "Mark Girolami | International Conference on Data-Integrated Simulation Science". uni-stuttgart.de. University of Stuttgart . Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  4. 1 2 www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/mag92 OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  5. 1 2 Mark Girolami publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  6. "Professor Mark Girolami". christs.cam.ac.uk. Christs College Cambridge . Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  7. "Lady Margaret Lecture - Lord Kelvin, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age?". christs.cam.ac.uk. Christs College Cambridge . Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  8. "Royal Society announces first round of prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards for 2012". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  9. Data-Centric Engineering - Professor Mark Girolami. Cambridge University Press. July 4, 2022 via YouTube. [Vimeo]
  10. "Data-Centric Engineering". cambridge.org. Cambridge University Press . Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  11. "Data-centric engineering". turing.ac.uk. The Alan Turing Institute.
  12. Girolami, Mark (1997). Self-organising neural networks for signal separation (PhD thesis). University of Paisley. OCLC   53633105. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.388215.
  13. "Mastermind host amongst UWS Honorary Doctorates awarded at winter graduations". www.uws.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  14. Professor Mark Girolami: "Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?". The Alan Turing Institute [@TheAlanTuringInstituteUK]. Jul 12, 2016 via YouTube.
  15. Mark Girolami at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg