Vaishak Belle

 

Dr Vaishak Belle is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, an Alan Turing Institute Faculty Fellow, a Royal Society University Research Fellow, and a member of the RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) Young Academy of Scotland.

At the University of Edinburgh, he directs a research lab on artificial intelligence, specialising in the unification of symbolic systems and machine learning, with a recent emphasis on explainability and ethics. He has given research seminars at numerous academic institutions, tutorials at AI conferences, and talks at venues such as Ars Electronica and the Samsung AI Forum.

He has co-authored over 50 scientific articles on AI, at venues such as IJCAI, UAI, AAAI, MLJ, AIJ, JAIR, AAMAS. Along with his co-authors, he has won the Microsoft best paper award at UAI, the Machine Learning Journal best student paper award at ECML-PKDD, and the Machine Learning Journal best student paper award at ILP. In 2014, he received a silver medal by the Kurt Goedel Society. Recently, he has consulted with major banks on explainable AI and its impact in financial institutions.

 
 
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