# Neil Lawrence

neil lawrence is the DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Senior AI Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield. == Education == Lawrence obtained a Bachelors in Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southampton, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, with a thesis on Variational Inference in Probabilistic Models, supervised by Christopher Bishop. He spent a year at Microsoft Research before becoming a Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning and Computational Biology at Sheffield University over the ensuing six years.