Stephen Roberts (academic)

Stephen Roberts (born March 1965 ) FREng is a British academic and scientist. He is a professor of machine learning at University of Oxford and leads the Machine Learning Research Group, a sub-group of the Department of Engineering Science.

In 2016 he co-founded Mind Foundry, an artificial intelligence company, along with his colleague professor Michael Osborne.

Education
Roberts received a first-class degree in physics and a DPhil in machine learning. He also completed a PhD in Signal Processing at Imperial College London.

Career
In 1994, Roberts was appointed to the faculty at Imperial College London. Roberts has been faculty at the University of Oxford since 1999 and a professor of machine learning since 2004.

Honours, advisory roles, and fellowship
Professor Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Statistical Society, the IET, and the ELLIS Society. He was Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (2014-2021) and is co-lead of the Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship Program (2022-).

He is a professorial fellow of Somerville College at the University of Oxford.

He was a founding director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems.

He is also a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.