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Mauro Camara Escudero

Computational Statistics and Data Science Ph.D.

University of Bristol

About Me

I’m a second year Ph.D. student in Computational Statistics and Data Science (COMPASS) at the University of Bristol. My main research interests lie at the intersection of scalable sampling and variational methods with modern neural density estimation techniques, especially in the context of likelihood-free inference. I am also interested in the application of such methods to population genetics data. I co-run the Bristol Neural Networks reading group with Pierre-Aurélien Gilliot. I also run the COMPASS Seminar Series at the University of Bristol. Some of my R portfolios are available here

Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • MCMC and SMC Samplers
  • Variational Inference and VAEs
  • Neural Density Estimation
  • Density-Ratio Estimation and GANs
  • Genomics & Population Genetics

Education

  • PhD in Computational Statistics and Data Science, 2020-2024

    University of Bristol

  • MRes in Computational Statistics and Data Science, 2020

    University of Bristol

  • BSc in Mathematics with Year in Employment, 2019

    University of Southampton

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Scientist Intern

Afiniti

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 London
Machine Learning research in the AI R&D team.
 
 
 
 
 

Data Scientist and Modeller

Uniper

Jun 2017 – Aug 2018 Nottingham

Responsibilities include:

  • Wind Power Forecasting
  • Windfarm layout optimization
  • Gas Trading Optimization
  • Detecting gas turbines failures using CV
  • SQL, Cassandra, Python
 
 
 
 
 

Summer Researcher

Dr. Richardson Giles, University of Southampton

May 2016 – Jul 2016 Southampton
Modelled and simulated particle hopping in solar panels with Python.

Ramblings

Tutorials, courses and various other rambling.

Approximate Bayesian Computation

Normalizing Flows Course

Recent Posts

Assessing a Variational Autoencoder on MNIST using Pytorch

Learn how to visualize the latent space and generate data using a VAE in Pytorch.

Minimalist Variational Autoencoder in Pytorch with CUDA GPU

Variational Autoencoders in Pytorch with CUDA GPU

Variational Auto-Encoders and the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm

Relationship between Variational Autoencoders (VAE) and the Expectation Maximization Algorithm. Simple Explanation

Towards SMC: Using the Dirac-delta function in Sampling and Sequential Monte Carlo

We derive the Dirac-delta function, explain how to use to approximate an Empirical PDF for a sample.

Towards SMC: Sequential Importance Sampling

Sequential Importance Sampling intuition simply explained for SMC

Contact

  • Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TH
  • Turn right at the entrance to office GA.14