David Leslie
David Leslie is Professor of Statistical Learning in the School of Mathematical Sciences, Lancaster University. He develops machine learning algorithms that are at the core of modern AI, particularly around decision making, exploration and reinforcement learning.
David is Professor of Statistical Learning in the School of Mathematical Sciences, Lancaster University. He develops machine learning algorithms that are at the core of modern AI, particularly around decision making, exploration and reinforcement learning.
He has led several large interdisciplinary projects including “ALADDIN (Autonomous Learning Agents for Distributed and Decentralised Information Networks)”, a strategic partnership between EPSRC and BAE Systems, and “Decision-making in an Unstable World”, an EPSRC-funded collaboration between psychologists, computer scientists, biologists and mathematicians to relate human and machine strategies for gathering and using information.