Alexander Gammerman


Alexander Gammerman is a British computer scientist, and professor at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the co-inventor of conformal prediction. He is the founding director of the Centre for Machine Learning at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Career

Gammerman's academic career has been pursued in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. He started working as a Research Fellow in the Agrophysical Research Institute, St. Petersburg. In 1983, he emigrated to the United Kingdom and was appointed as a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Together with Roger Thatcher, Gammerman published several articles on Bayesian inference. In 1993, he was appointed to the established chair in Computer Science at University of London tenable at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, where he served as the Head of Computer Science department from 1995 to 2005. In 1998, the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning was established, and Gammerman became the first director of the centre.
Gammerman has written 7 books.

Honours and awards

In 1996, Gammerman received the P.W. Allen Award from the Forensic Science Society. In 2006, he became a Honorary Professor, at University College London. In 2009, he became a Distinguished Professor at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. In 2019, he received a research grant funded by the energy company Centrica about predicting the time to the next failure of equipment. In 2020, he received the Amazon Research Award for the project titled Conformal Martingales for Change-Point Detection

Selected books

  • Measures of Complexity, Springer,.
  • Algorithmic Learning in a Random World, Springer,.
  • Causal Models and Intelligent Data Management, Springer,.
  • Probabilistic Reasoning and Bayesian Belief Networks, Nelson Thornes Ltd,.
  • Computational Learning and Probabilistic Reasoning, Wiley,.