Alexander Gammerman
{{short description|British-Soviet computer scientist and statistician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Alexander Gammerman
| image = Alexander-Gammerman-professor-at-RHUL.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2 November 1944|df=y}}
| birth_place = Almaty, Soviet Union{{cite book |title=Who's Who in Scotland |edition=4th |date=1992 |page=152 |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinscotlan0000unse_h2n9/page/152 |publisher=Carrick Media |isbn=094672430X}}
| nationality = British
| workplaces = Royal Holloway, University of London
| alma_mater = Saint Petersburg State University
Russia
| known_for = Conformal prediction
| field = Machine learning
Statistics
}}
Alexander Gammerman (born 2 November 1944) 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.{{cite book | last=Golumbic | first=Martin Charles | editor1-first=Martin Charles | editor1-last=Golumbic | title=Advances in Artificial Intelligence | publisher=Springer-Verlag | location=New York, NY | year=1990 | isbn=978-1-4613-9054-1 | doi=10.1007/978-1-4613-9052-7 | pages=182–218| hdl=10366/135195 | s2cid=41996809 }} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37586446000 |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=IEEE| title=Alexander Gammerman - IEEE Author Profile |publisher=IEEE}} In 1998, the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning was established, and Gammerman became the first director of the centre.
Gammerman has published 7 books, more than 150 research papers, and has an estimated h-index of 34.{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=uoWoR4gAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Gammerman's Google Scholar Page |year=2020 |publisher=Google Scholar|access-date={{Format date|2020|09|22}}}} He ranks amongst the top 1% researcher in artificial intelligence and machine learning. {{cite web|url=https://scholargps.com/scholars/37913155737333/alex-gammerman?e_ref=0777fb7e45083e3ebd00|title=Gammerman's ScholarGPS Profile |year=2024 |publisher=ScholarGPS|access-date={{Format date|2024|07|23}}}}
Honours and awards
In 1996, Gammerman received the P.W. Allen Award from the Forensic Science Society.{{cite web|url=https://www.csofs.org/PW-Allen-Award|title=Winners of the PW Allen Award |year=2020 |publisher=The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences |access-date={{Format date|2020|09|21}}}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/computer-science/news/centrica-grant-2018/|title=Centrica research grant awarded for Prof. Alex Gammerman |year=2019 |publisher=Royal Holloway University of London|access-date={{Format date|2020|09|27}}}} In 2020, he received the Amazon Research Award for the project titled Conformal Martingales for Change-Point Detection{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.science/blog/recipients-of-the-2019-amazon-research-awards-announced|title=Recipients of the 2019 Amazon Research Awards announced |year=2020 |publisher=Amazon |access-date={{Format date|2020|09|21}}}}{{cite web|url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/computer-science/news/amazon-research-award/|title=Amazon Research Award for Prof. Alex Gammerman |year=2020 |publisher=Royal Holloway University of London|access-date={{Format date|2020|09|22}}}}{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/recipients/alexander-gammerman|title=2019 Amazon Research Award recipient|year=2020 |publisher=Amazon|access-date={{Format date|2021|02|21}}}}
Selected books
- Measures of Complexity (2016), Springer, {{ISBN|3319357786}}.
- Algorithmic Learning in a Random World (2005), Springer, {{ISBN|0387001522}}.
- Causal Models and Intelligent Data Management (1999), Springer, {{ISBN|978-3-642-58648-4}}.
- Probabilistic Reasoning and Bayesian Belief Networks (1998), Nelson Thornes Ltd, {{ISBN|1872474268}}.
- Computational Learning and Probabilistic Reasoning (1996), Wiley, {{ISBN|0471962791}}.
References
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External links
- [https://cml.rhul.ac.uk/people/alex/ Gammerman's University Website]
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Category:Machine learning researchers
Category:Soviet computer scientists
Category:Soviet mathematicians
Category:British mathematicians
Category:British computer scientists
Category:Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
Category:Soviet emigrants to the United Kingdom
Category:Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society
Category:British artificial intelligence researchers
Category:Academics of Heriot-Watt University
Category:Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid