Roderick Murray-Smith is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, leading the Inference, Dynamics and Interaction research group. He is also a visiting Professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam. He works in the overlap between machine learning, interaction design and control theory. His main current activity is the 5 year ERC Advanced grant project, Designing Interaction Freedom via Active Inference (DIFAI). The project’s objectives are to integrate Active Inference theory into the human-computer interaction loop, linking human behaviour via sensors and ML/inference embeddings with dynamic mediating mechanisms to create end-to-end mutually adaptive loops between humans and systems.
His research has included Machine Learning in Science, multimodal sensor-based interaction with mobile devices, mobile spatial interaction, AR/VR, Brain-Computer interaction and nonparametric machine learning. Prior to this he held positions at the Hamilton Institute, NUIM, Technical University of Denmark, M.I.T., and Daimler-Benz Research, Berlin, and was the Director of SICSA, the Scottish Informatics and Computing Science Alliance. He works closely with industry, having worked together with Google, Nokia, Samsung, Moodagent, FT/Orange, Microsoft, dotPhoton and Bang & Olufsen, bringing concepts to products with many of them. He was a member of Nokia’s Scientific Advisory Board and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research. He has co-authored three edited volumes, 58 journal papers, 23 book chapters, and over 100 conference papers.
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~rod/
