Dr Laurence Aitchison
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
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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
Dates
24/11/2020 to 23/10/2021
Thesis supervisions
Learning and Optimisation of Representations in Deep Learning
Supervisors
Catastrophic events in robotics and climate
Supervisors
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
Active Inference for Tactile Sensor Control
Supervisors
Methods failing the data, data failing the methods
Supervisors
Generative machine learning emulation of km-scale regional climate simulations
Supervisors
Energy Efficient Plasticity in Probabilistic Synapses
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
05/01/2026Position: Don’t Use the CLT in LLM Evals With Fewer Than a Few Hundred Datapoints - Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning
Learning Generation Orders for Masked Discrete Diffusion Models via Variational Inference: ICLR 2026 DeLTa Workshop
Machine Learning Emulation of Precipitation From km-Scale UK Regional Climate Simulations Using a Diffusion Model
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Massively Parallel Expectation Maximization For Approximate Posteriors: 7th Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference - Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
Volume 289
Residual Stream Analysis with Multi-Layer SAEs: ICLR 2025 - ICLR proceedings
LEARNING REPRESENTATIONS. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. 13TH 2025. (ICLR 2025)
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