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Current (Imperial)

Below a list of students/researchers who are working with me at Imperial. Currently, I no longer have capacity for taking up new PhD students.

PhD

Paul Felix Valsecchi Oliva (second supervisor: Andrew Duncan)
Paula Cordero Encinar (co-supervisor: Andrew Duncan)
Tim Wang
James Cuin (co-supervisor: Yanbo Tang)
Joanna Marks (second supervisor: Riccardo Passeggeri)
Matthew Young
Jackie Zhang

Past (Imperial)

StatML first year (mini) project supervision

Peter Hyland
Rafael Athanasiades

Masters

Matthew Young — Generative Protein Design (MRes)
Tim Wang - Flow Matching for Inverse Problems (MSc at Oxford, co-supervisor: George Deligiannidis)
Ben Dowling — Diffusion Models for Optimisation (MSc)
Tony Dam — Gaussian Matrix Factorisation via Gibbs Sampling (MSci, 2024)
Joe Marks — Generative Modelling for Data Augmentation in Factor Investing (MSc, 2023)
Rina Maletta — Matrix Variate Gaussian Matrix Factorisation (MSc, 2023)
Sally Marshall — A Temporal Proximal Point Method for Matrix Factorisation of Time Series (MSci thesis, 2023)
Peter Christofides Paton — Investigating Generalisation in Score-Based Generative Models (MEng thesis, 2023)

Undergraduate

Carlos Cardoso Correia Perello — Convergence of Adaptive Importance Samplers for Unbounded Parametric Families (BSc, 2023)
Peiyi Zhou — Sampling from log-concave distributions through Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods (BSci, 2024)

Summer/Visiting students

Tom Rossa — (from ENSAE, between 07/2024-09/2024)
Xinyue Lou — (from Kings College London, between 07/2024-09/2024)
Adam Rozzio — (from ENS Paris-Saclay, between 04/2024-07/2024)
Omar Fabian Gonzalez Hernandez, (from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, between 10/2023-04/2024).
Tim Wang — Generative modelling with adaptive Langevin dynamics, Summer 2023 (Imperial - BSc).

Warwick/Cambridge

In my postdoctoral years at University of Warwick (2019-2021) and The Alan Turing Institute (2021-2022) (visiting University of Cambridge), I have had the pleasure of closely supervising multiple PhD students. Below, I list students who wrote theses predominantly consisting of work done in close collaboration with me.

Benjamin Boys, University of Cambridge, graduated 2025, (main supervisor Mark Girolami)
Alex Glyn-Davies, University of Cambridge, graduated 2025, (main supervisor Mark Girolami)
Ayman Boustati, University of Warwick, graduated 2021 (main supervisor Theodoros Damoulas)