Description: Mrinank Sharma, Academic Webstite
I’m a PhD Student at the University of Oxford in the Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems CDT (AIMS) programme, supervised by Tom Rainforth , Eric Nalisnick , and Yee Whye Teh .
I spent the first portion of my PhD developing Bayesian models to evaluate the effects of nonpharamceutical interventions on COVID-19 transmission. This work resulted in publications in Science , PNAS , and Nature Communications . In addition, our work was cited in federal legislation, presented to the Africa CDC modelling group, and shared with the UK’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
Following this, I worked on accelerating model training using ideas from probabilistic modelling and rethinking Bayesian neural networks .