Moray Allan

moray@sermisy.org

Date of birth: 1 August 1980
Nationality: British

Education

2007- INRIA Rhône-Alpes,
Grenoble Post-doctoral research in machine learning

2003-2007 School of Informatics,
Edinburgh University PhD in machine learning with Chris Williams
(2007) Research featured on BBC Radio 4

2002-2003 Judge Business School,
Cambridge University Diploma in Management Studies

2001-2002 School of Informatics,
Edinburgh University MSc in Informatics, with Distinction
(2002) Research in probabilistic modelling of music (dissertation awarded 83%)
(2002) 'Excellent' performance on taught course (76% average)

1998-2001 Jesus College,
Cambridge University BA (Hons) Theology and Religious Studies
(1999) College award for performance in exams
1993-1998 Winchester College A grades in A-level Maths (grade 1 in S Maths), Further Maths, Latin, Greek, AO-level French

Publications

(Available online from http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~moray/.)

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.

Employment

2006-2007 PASCAL network I worked as part of a team to create new object recognition data sets for the PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge 2006 and 2007.

2004-2006 Edinburgh University I gave tutorials to Informatics MSc students on the Learning from Data course, and was the Teaching Assistant for the Data Mining and Exploration course.

2003 Cambridge University I gave Prolog tutorials to undergraduate Computer Science students.

2001 FEDA I designed and implemented a website discussion forum for maths teachers, on behalf of the Further Education Development Agency (now the Learning and Skills Development Agency).
2000 NANAMIC I created and developed a website for NANAMIC, to provide their members with news of approaching events and reviews of teaching materials.
1999 The Royal Bank of Scotland I advised on various aspects of RBS's new website, ranging from user-interface design to server hardware and software choices.
1998 The Royal Bank of Scotland I used established option-pricing models to estimate values of executive options owned by RBS management personnel. The results were made available to management staff via a simple computer interface.
1997,
updated 1999 The Royal Bank of Scotland I applied the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to estimate the cost of equity capital for RBS, other UK banks, and some non-financial companies. The results were presented to RBS management meetings.
1995 The Royal Bank of Scotland I carried out an analysis of relative values in connection with a merger between RBS's subsidiary bank in America, Citizens, and First New Hampshire Bank, owned by the Bank of Ireland. I illustrated the results on charts which were used by RBS in their negotiations with the Bank of Ireland.

Other positions held

2006-2007 Lead organiser for DebConf 2007 international conference

2004- Appointed a Developer for the Debian Project

2000-2001 Elected Secretary of the Cambridge University Student Christian Council

1999-2000 Elected President of the Jesus College Network, a college computing society
Elected Chairman of Cambridge University Christian Network, a university society

1997-1998 Appointed Editor of The Wykehamist, a magazine published monthly during school terms

Computer skills

Internet: website design, Apache, CGI, networking
Programming: 18 years' experience; have worked on open source software using a variety of languages; most recent large projects used C, Perl, MATLAB
Document creation: familiar with many word-processing and desktop-publishing programs, including LaTeX
Analysis: spreadsheets, databases, data-mining techniques
Administration: have run various servers, providing web, FTP, CVS, SVN, NIS, NFS, SMB, IMAP, SMTP, UNIX shell facilities

Interests

Computers: I enjoy programming and working with computers. I am one of an international team of Developers working on Debian GNU/Linux
Music: I have a strong interest in classical music, and especially in the development of Western European choral music from Dufay to Monteverdi
Travel: I have travelled widely. In recent years I have concentrated on countries of the late Roman Empire, visiting, among other ancient remains, buildings surviving from the Emperor Justinian's sixth-century construction programme. As a child I spent a year living in Tokyo

2007-	INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble	Post-doctoral research in machine learning
2003-2007	School of Informatics, Edinburgh University	PhD in machine learning with Chris Williams (2007) Research featured on BBC Radio 4
2002-2003	Judge Business School, Cambridge University	Diploma in Management Studies
2001-2002	School of Informatics, Edinburgh University	MSc in Informatics, with Distinction (2002) Research in probabilistic modelling of music (dissertation awarded 83%) (2002) 'Excellent' performance on taught course (76% average)
1998-2001	Jesus College, Cambridge University	BA (Hons) Theology and Religious Studies (1999) College award for performance in exams
1993-1998	Winchester College	A grades in A-level Maths (grade 1 in S Maths), Further Maths, Latin, Greek, AO-level French

2006-2007	PASCAL network	I worked as part of a team to create new object recognition data sets for the PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge 2006 and 2007.
2004-2006	Edinburgh University	I gave tutorials to Informatics MSc students on the Learning from Data course, and was the Teaching Assistant for the Data Mining and Exploration course.
2003	Cambridge University	I gave Prolog tutorials to undergraduate Computer Science students.
2001	FEDA	I designed and implemented a website discussion forum for maths teachers, on behalf of the Further Education Development Agency (now the Learning and Skills Development Agency).
2000	NANAMIC	I created and developed a website for NANAMIC, to provide their members with news of approaching events and reviews of teaching materials.
1999	The Royal Bank of Scotland	I advised on various aspects of RBS's new website, ranging from user-interface design to server hardware and software choices.
1998	The Royal Bank of Scotland	I used established option-pricing models to estimate values of executive options owned by RBS management personnel. The results were made available to management staff via a simple computer interface.
1997, updated 1999	The Royal Bank of Scotland	I applied the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to estimate the cost of equity capital for RBS, other UK banks, and some non-financial companies. The results were presented to RBS management meetings.
1995	The Royal Bank of Scotland	I carried out an analysis of relative values in connection with a merger between RBS's subsidiary bank in America, Citizens, and First New Hampshire Bank, owned by the Bank of Ireland. I illustrated the results on charts which were used by RBS in their negotiations with the Bank of Ireland.

2006-2007	Lead organiser for DebConf 2007 international conference
2004-	Appointed a Developer for the Debian Project
2000-2001	Elected Secretary of the Cambridge University Student Christian Council
1999-2000	Elected President of the Jesus College Network, a college computing society Elected Chairman of Cambridge University Christian Network, a university society
1997-1998	Appointed Editor of The Wykehamist, a magazine published monthly during school terms