Bio
Dr Ingo Waldmann completed his PhD at the University College London (UCL) in 2012 and is now an Associate Professor in Astrophysics at UCL. His work focuses on the development of machine learning and inverse modelling in exoplanet -planets around other stars- and solar system sciences.
He is the PI of the European Research Council and UK Space Agency funded ExoAI group, the AI lead of the European Space Agency (ESA) Ariel Space Mission and the ESA_lab AI representative at UCL. He is the Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Space Exochemistry Data (CSED) focusing on AI applications across space industries and the Director of the UCL Planetary Sciences MSc programme.
He was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society Fowler Award in 2019 for his work on machine learning in exoplanetary science. In 2018, he co-founded and is a director of Spaceflux Limited, a startup building a global robotic telescope network.
Research interests
Ingo's machine learning interest are in time series forecasting, generative models, explainability/interpretability and Bayesian Inference. His astrophysics interests are the characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres and surface features of solar system bodies.