Kamen Brestnichki

Doctoral Student

About me

I am Kamen Brestnichki, a first-year doctoral student at the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology, from October 2022. I am supervised by Prof. Martin Vechev.

My interests include probabilistic modeling, adversarial robustness, and continuous-depth neural models.

Education

University College London, September 2020 – September 2021
M.Sc. in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (Distinction)

University of Edinburgh, September 2014 – June 2018
B.Sc. in Computer Science (First Class Honours)

Awards

Dean’s List (Top 5%), UCL Computer Science Department

Publications

Multilingual Factor Analysis
Francisco Vargas, Kamen Brestnichki, Alex Papadopoulos Korfiatis, Nils Hammerla
ACL 2019

Model Comparison For Semantic Grouping
Francisco Vargas, Kamen Brestnichki, Nils Hammerla
ICML 2019

Relevant Work Experience

PlantingSpace, Remote, 10/2021 – 02/2022
Research Scientist

Privitar, London, 03/2020 – 11/2020
Research Scientist

Babylon Health, London, 09/2018 – 09/2019
Machine Learning Scientist

FiveAI, Edinburgh, 05/2018 – 09/2018
Research Intern