Moray Allan

moray@sermisy.org

Employment

2010-	Université de Caen
	I am carrying out post-doctoral research on machine learning for computer vision within the GREYC lab.
2007-2009	Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (=French National Institute for Research in Informatics and Automation)
	I pursued post-doctoral research within the Learning and Recognition in Vision (LEAR) group at INRIA.
2004-2006	University of Edinburgh
	I was the Teaching Assistant for the Data Mining and Exploration course, and gave tutorials to Informatics MSc students on the Learning from Data course.
2002-2003	University of Cambridge
	I gave Prolog tutorials to undergraduate Computer Science students.

Research publications

Josip Krapac, Moray Allan, Jakob Verbeek and Frédéric Jurie. Improving web image search results using query-relative classifiers. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010.

Moray Allan and Jakob Verbeek. Ranking user-annotated images for multiple query terms. Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, 2009.

Moray Allan and Christopher K. I. Williams. Object Localization using the Generative Template of Features. Computer Vision and Image Understanding 113(7), 2009.

Moray Allan. Sprite Learning and Object Category Recognition using Invariant Features. PhD thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2007.

Christopher K. I. Williams and Moray Allan. On a Connection between Object Localization with a Generative Template of Features and Pose-space Prediction Methods. Informatics Research Report EDI-INF-RR-0719, University of Edinburgh, January 2006.

Moray Allan, Michalis K. Titsias and Christopher K. I. Williams. Fast Learning of Sprites using Invariant Features. Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, 2005.

Moray Allan and Christopher K. I. Williams. Harmonising Chorales by Probabilistic Inference. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17, 2005.

Moray Allan. Harmonising chorales in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach. MSc thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002.

Research publications available online at http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~moray/

Education

2003-2007	Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh
	PhD in Machine Learning
2002-2003	Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
	Diploma in Management Studies
2001-2002	School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
	MSc in Informatics, with Distinction
1998-2001	Jesus College, University of Cambridge
	MA in Theology and Religious Studies (2.1)
1993-1998	Winchester College
	A grades in A-level Maths (grade 1 in S Maths), Further Maths, Latin, Greek, AO-level French

Awards and achievements

2008	Outstanding Reviewer Award from Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference
2007	Research featured on BBC Radio 4
2005	Selected for oral presentation at British Machine Vision Conference
2004	Selected for oral presentation at Neural Information Processing Systems conference
2003	Three-year PhD research studentship (funding for fees and grant) from Microsoft Research
1999	Award from Jesus College, Cambridge, for performance in university exams
1993	Five-year academic scholarship to attend Winchester College

Technical experience

• Machine learning: supervised and unsupervised learning; generative and discriminative probabilistic models, optimisation, Monte Carlo methods, graphical models, Bayesian modelling; classification, regression, time series modelling; kernel methods, Gaussian processes, support vector machines
• Programming: 20 years' experience; have worked on open source software using a variety of languages; most recent large projects used C, Perl, MATLAB
• Analysis: spreadsheets, databases, data-mining techniques
• Internet: website design, Apache, CGI, networking
• System administration: ran servers providing web server, version control repository (SVN, CVS), file server (NFS, NIS, Samba, FTP), mail server (IMAP, SMTP), UNIX shell facilities

Interests

• Music: I have a strong interest in classical music, and especially in the development of Western European choral music from Dufay to Monteverdi.
• History: I am particularly interested in the history of religion in the eastern Mediterranean region during the late Roman Empire.
• Open source development: I have worked as a volunteer on several open source software projects, including Debian, which forms the basis for many commercial Linux distributions. I led the organisation team for the DebConf 2007 international conference, bringing together over 400 attendees from more than 40 countries.