Speakers

Jason McEwen is the Interim Chief Scientist and Mission Director for Fundamental Research at the Alan Turing Institute.  He leads the Turing’s Fundamental Research mission, which performs underlying research in data science and AI, supporting the Turing’s grand challenges across sustainability, health, and security.  He also holds a position as a Professor in the Department of Space and Climate Physics at University College London (UCL), where is he is also Founder and Co-Director of UCL’s Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data Intensive Science (DIS).  He has broad interdisciplinary research interests spanning AI, statistics, applied mathematics and computing, with diverse application to physical systems and beyond.  He is particularly interested in statistical, geometric and generative AI, developing approaches that are enhanced by physical modelling and also offer interpretability.  He has been involved in numerous astrophysical experiments, including the European Space Agency (ESA) Planck and Euclid satellites, the Rubin Observatory and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).  As part of the Planck team he won the Gruber Prize in Cosmology for his contributions to fundamental advances in our understanding of the Universe.