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Zoubin Ghahramani receives Royal Society award

Professor Zoubin Ghahramani FRS, Leverhulme CFI Deputy Director and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture 2021. This is for his fundamental contributions to probabilistic machine learning.

The Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture, supported by Microsoft Research, is the premier European award for outstanding achievement in computer science. It is awarded to candidates at the peak of their career who have made a substantial contribution to computer science in Europe, with the strategic aim of supporting European researchers and institutes. The recipient is a European researcher or researcher who has been resident in Europe for 12 months or more, and is chosen by the Council of the Royal Society on the recommendation of the Milner Award Committee. The Committee is made up of Fellows of the Royal Society, Members of the Académie des sciences (France) and Members of Leopoldina (Germany). The award is named in honour of Professor Robin Milner FRS (1934-2010), a pioneer in computer science. The medal is of bronze, is awarded annually and is accompanied by a gift of £5,000. 

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