Richard Turner

Richard Turner

Prof Richard E Turner is Professor of Machine Learning in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge and Research Lead, AI for Weather Prediction, at the Alan Turing Institute. Prof Turner led the Aardvark Weather project on end-to-end medium-range weather forecasting. Richard’s previous roles include Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research in the AI4Science and AI teams where he co-led the Aurora project that built a foundation model for the Earth System. Richard is the Cambridge Lead for the EPSRC Probabilistic AI Hub, a £8 million initiative into probabilistic machine learning methods. He was also Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in the Application of Artificial Intelligence to the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER CDT).  He has received over £35 million of funding as a Principal or Co-Investigator. He has been awarded the Cambridge Students’ Union Teaching Award for Lecturing. 

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    University of Cambridge
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    Professor of Machine Learning
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