Professor Richard Turner

Richard Turner is Research Lead, AI for Weather Prediction, at the Alan Turing Institute, and a Professor of Machine Learning in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He was a founding Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in the Application of Artificial Intelligence to the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER CDT).

Professor Turner spent over three years at Microsoft Research as a visiting researcher. His work has been presented at top machine learning conferences including AAAI, AIStats, ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS, and he has given keynote lectures and tutorials at the Machine Learning and Signal Processing Summer School, the International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Data Science, and the Machine Learning Summer School. He has been the lead supervisor for 26 PhD students (13 now graduated) and seven Research Assistants and Associates. He has received over £10M of industrial funding from Microsoft, Toyota, Google, DeepMind, Amazon and Improbable, and over £15M of funding from EPSRC as Principal or Co-investigator. Professor Turner has been awarded the Cambridge Students’ Union Teaching Award for Lecturing. His work has featured on BBC Radio 5 Live’s The Naked Scientists, BBC World Service’s Click and in Wired magazine.