Ömer Deniz Akyıldız

Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) Section Committee Member.

2nd RSS/Turing CSML Section Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning.
Isaac Newton Institute (INI) Satellite Programme on Diffusions in Machine Learning
Isaac Newton Institute (INI) Satellite Programme on Heavy Tails in Machine Learning
RSS CSML Section Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning. [Youtube videos]
Turing Theory and Methods Challenge Fortnight (2022-2023), Accelerating Generative Models and Nonconvex Optimisation, [outputs].
SMC Masterclass (organiser and lecturer), Bristol, UK, 2022.

06/05/2024: Introduction to Bayesian filtering: theory & methods, Summer School on Bayesian filtering: fundamental theory and numerical methods (SSBF 2024). [lecture material], [video 1], [video 2]
SMC Masterclass (organiser and lecturer), Bristol, UK, 2022, [notes], [Lecture 1], [Lecture 2].

13/01/2025: Diffusion-based Learning of Latent Variable Models, Workshop on Recent Developments in Theoretical Machine Learning, Imperial College London.
15/04/2024: Tweedie Moment Projected Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems, Amazon StatML Workshop, Berlin, Germany.
21/06/2023: Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithm for Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation, Isaac Newton Institute, Generative Models for Inverse Problems Workshop, Cambridge, UK [video].
6/5/2022: Convergence Properties for Optimised Adaptive Importance Samplers, Invited speaker at the 5th Workshop on Sequential Monte Carlo Methods (SMC2022), Madrid.

09/01/2025: Diffusion-based Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation: Overdamped, Accelerated, and Proximal, Data Analytics Seminar, ESSEC Business School, Paris.
13/11/2024: Diffusion-based Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation: Overdamped, Accelerated, and Proximal, Information Theory Seminar, University of Cambridge, [video]
24/04/2024: Interacting Particle Diffusions for Statistical Inference, SQUIDS Seminar, University of Manchester
08/02/2024: Diffusions for Statistical Inference and Inverse Problems, Southampton S3RI Seminar
19/01/2024: Diffusions for Statistical Inference and Inverse Problems, Imperial Statistics Seminar
20/10/2023: Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithm for Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation, University of Oxford, Statistics Seminar
22/05/2023: Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithm for Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation, University of Edinburgh, Statistics Seminar