Dr Laurence Aitchison
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Future Rainfall and Flood Extremes (FURFLEX)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
01/10/2024 to 30/09/2028
8030 Royal Society RGS\R2\202316
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
24/11/2020 to 23/10/2021
Thesis supervisions
Through the AI of the Storm
Supervisors
Post-processing East African precipitation forecasts using a generative machine learning model
Supervisors
Action gradients for motor learning in neuroscience and artificial intelligence
Supervisors
Methods failing the data, data failing the methods
Supervisors
Generative machine learning emulation of km-scale regional climate simulations
Supervisors
Active Inference for Tactile Sensor Control
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
06/03/2025Postprocessing East African Rainfall Forecasts Using a Generative Machine Learning Model
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Relating Human Error–Based Learning to Modern Deep RL Algorithms
Neural Computation
Jacobian Sparse Autoencoders: Sparsify Computations, Not Just Activations
Jacobian Sparse Autoencoders: Sparsify Computations, Not Just Activations
Learning to Skip the Middle Layers of Transformers
Learning to Skip the Middle Layers of Transformers
Residual Stream Analysis with Multi-Layer SAEs
Residual Stream Analysis with Multi-Layer SAEs
