{{Short description|British civil engineer and statistician (born 1963)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Mark Girolami | honorific_suffix = {{postnom|FREng|FRSE|country=GBR|size=100}} | birth_place = Irvine, North Ayrshire<ref name=whoswho/> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|08|29}}<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Girolami, Prof. Mark | id = U292496 | year = 2019 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U292496 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}</ref> | alma_mater = University of Glasgow (BSc)<br>University of Paisley (PhD) | workplaces = IBM<br>University of Glasgow<br>University College London<br>University of Warwick<br>Imperial College London<br>University of Cambridge | doctoral_advisor = Colin Fyfe<ref name=mathgene/> | thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388215 | thesis_title = Self-organising neural networks for signal separation | thesis_year = 1997 | awards = Turing Talk (2020)<br>Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012) | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''Mark A. Girolami''' (born 1963)<ref name=whoswho/> {{postnom|FREng|FRSE|country=GBR}} is a British civil engineer, statistician and data engineer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mark Girolami {{!}} International Conference on Data-Integrated Simulation Science |url=https://www.simtech2023.uni-stuttgart.de/program/keynote-speakers/mark-girolami/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=uni-stuttgart.de|publisher=University of Stuttgart |language=en}}</ref> He has held the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge since 2019.<ref name=official>{{Official URL}}</ref> <ref name=gs>{{Google scholar id}}</ref> He has been the chief scientist of the Alan Turing Institute since 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Mark Girolami |url=https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college/people/fellows/professor-mark-girolami |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=christs.cam.ac.uk|publisher=Christs College Cambridge}}</ref> He is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lady Margaret Lecture - Lord Kelvin, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age? |url=https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/event/lady-margaret-lecture-lord-kelvin-first-baron-largs-father-digital-age |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=christs.cam.ac.uk|publisher=Christs College Cambridge}}</ref> and winner of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 May 2012 |title=Royal Society announces first round of prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards for 2012 |url=https://royalsociety.org/news/2012/Wolfsons-May-2012/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=royalsociety.org|publisher=Royal Society}}</ref> Girolami is a founding editor of the journal ''Data-Centric Engineering'',<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q_ri5M63XU |title=Data-Centric Engineering - Professor Mark Girolami |date=July 4, 2022 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |via=YouTube}} <!-- -->[https://vimeo.com/726630076 Vimeo]<!-- --></ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Data-Centric Engineering |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/data-centric-engineering |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=cambridge.org|publisher=Cambridge University Press |language=en}}</ref> and also served as the program director for data-centric engineering at Turing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Data-centric engineering |url=https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-programmes/data-centric-engineering |website=turing.ac.uk|publisher=The Alan Turing Institute}}</ref>
== Education == Girolami studied{{clarify|date=July 2023}} at the University of Glasgow and spent ten years working for IBM as an engineer from 1985 to 1994.<ref name=whoswho/> After this he undertook, on a part-time basis, a PhD in statistical signal processing whilst working at the University of Paisley.<ref name=mathgene>{{MathGenealogy}}</ref><ref name=gphd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Paisley|url=|doi=|title=Self-organising neural networks for signal separation.|first= Mark|last=Girolami|date=1997|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.388215}}|website=|oclc=53633105}}</ref>
In 2024, the University of the West of Scotland awarded Girolami an honorary doctorate recognising his exceptional achievements in engineering and computing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mastermind host amongst UWS Honorary Doctorates awarded at winter graduations |url=https://www.uws.ac.uk/news/mastermind-host-amongst-uws-honorary-doctorates-awarded-at-winter-graduations/ |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=www.uws.ac.uk}}</ref>
==Career and research== After his PhD, Girolami held senior positions at the University of Glasgow, and University College London.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3PSSJM7J9U |title=Professor Mark Girolami: "Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?" |date=Jul 12, 2016 |publisher=The Alan Turing Institute [@TheAlanTuringInstituteUK] |via=YouTube}}</ref>
Before joining the University of Cambridge, Girolami worked at Imperial College London.<ref name=official />
=== Selected publications === His publications<ref name=gs/><ref name=dblp>{{DBLP}}</ref> include: * {{Cite book |last=Girolami |first=Mark |title=Self-organising neural networks : independent component analysis and blind source separation |date=1999 |publisher=Springer |isbn=1-85233-066-X |location=London |oclc=41165446}} * {{Cite book |title=Advances in independent component analysis |date=2000 |publisher=Springer |editor-first=Mark |editor-last=Girolami |isbn=1-85233-263-8 |location=London |oclc=43580473}} * {{Cite book |title=Learning and inference in computational systems biology |date=2009 |publisher=MIT Press |editor-first=Neil |editor-last=Lawrence |editor-first2=Mark |editor-last2=Girolami |editor-first3=Magnus |editor-last3=Rattray |editor-first4=Guido |editor-last4=Sanguinetti |isbn=978-0-262-01386-4 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |oclc=416139763}} * {{Cite book |title=Handbook of statistical systems biology |date=2011 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |editor-first=M. P. H. |editor-last=Stumpf |editor-first2=D. J. |editor-last2=Balding |editor-first3=Mark |editor-last3=Girolami |isbn=978-1-119-97061-3 |location=Chichester, West Sussex |oclc=759159249}} * {{Cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=Simon |title=A first course in machine learning |date=2020 |first2=Mark |last2=Girolami |isbn=978-0-367-57464-2 |edition=2nd |location=Boca Raton |oclc=1180151741}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Te-Won |last2=Girolami |first2=Mark |last3=Sejnowski |first3=Terrence J. |date=1999-02-01 |title=Independent Component Analysis Using an Extended Infomax Algorithm for Mixed Subgaussian and Supergaussian Sources |journal=Neural Computation |language=en |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=417–441 |doi=10.1162/089976699300016719 |pmid=9950738 |s2cid=207739442 |issn=0899-7667}} * {{Cite journal |last=Girolami |first=M. |date=2002 |title=Mercer kernel-based clustering in feature space |journal=IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks |language=en |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=780–784 |doi=10.1109/TNN.2002.1000150 |pmid=18244475 |issn=1045-9227}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Girolami |first1=Mark |last2=Calderhead |first2=Ben |date=2011-03-01 |title=Riemann Manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Methods |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology |language=en |volume=73 |issue=2 |pages=123–214 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00765.x |issn=1369-7412|doi-access=free }} * {{Cite journal |last1=Betancourt |first1=Michael |last2=Byrne |first2=Simon |last3=Livingstone |first3=Sam |last4=Girolami |first4=Mark |date=2017-11-01 |title=The geometric foundations of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo |journal=Bernoulli |volume=23 |issue=4A |doi=10.3150/16-BEJ810 |s2cid=88521216 |issn=1350-7265|doi-access=free |arxiv=1410.5110 }} * {{Cite journal |last1=Briol |first1=François-Xavier |last2=Oates |first2=Chris J. |last3=Girolami |first3=Mark |last4=Osborne |first4=Michael A. |last5=Sejdinovic |first5=Dino |date=2019-02-01 |title=Probabilistic Integration: A Role in Statistical Computation? |journal=Statistical Science |volume=34 |issue=1 |doi=10.1214/18-STS660 |s2cid=13932715 |issn=0883-4237|arxiv=1512.00933 }}
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