Two million Euro grant awarded for fundamental research in machine learning

Published on February 10, 2023

Associate Professor Patrick Rebeschini, from the University of Oxford’s Department of Statistics, has been awarded a 2022 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant, worth €2 million. Working at the intersection of statistics and computer science, Professor Rebeschini will use the grant to develop theoretical foundations to advance machine learning methods to analyse Big Data.
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