TN

PhD Candidate

Software Foundation Lab.
Room 554-1, Building 301
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Seoul National University
1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-744, Korea

Email: tom.nicholson (at) sf.snu.ac.kr

Research Interests

  • Distributed Cyber Physical Sytems (esp. autonomous vehicles)
  • (Multi) agent-based intelligent systems
  • Statistical modelling and machine learning
  • Specification and verification of AI systems
  • Natural language processing
  • Intelligent interfaces

Publications

  • Identification of Gaussian process state space models.
    Eleftheriadis, Stefanos, Thomas F. W. Nicholson, Marc Deisenroth, and James Hensman.
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2017).
    [arXiv]
  • Continuous recognition of one-handed and two-handed gestures using 3D full-body motion tracking sensors.
    Kristensson, Per Ola, Thomas Nicholson, and Aaron Quigley.
    In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces(IUI 2012).
    [paper]

Education

  • Mar. 2020 – Current, PhD candidate, Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University (advisor: Chung-Kil Hur)
  • 2015 – 2016, MPhil, Machine Learning Speech and Language Technology, University of Cambridge
  • 2008 – 2012, BSc, Computer Science, University of St Andrews

Experience

  • 2018 – 2019, Machine Learning Researcher, fetch.ai
  • 2016 – 2018, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, PROWLER.io
  • 2012 – 2015, Software Engineer, SwiftKey
  • 2011 – 2012, Research Assistant for British Military, University of St Andrews
  • Summer 2011, Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program, University of St Andrews
  • 2005 – 2008 Foreign Language Teacher, Beijing

Personal Interests

  • Science fiction
  • Single-player immersive games
  • Occasionally doing extreme exercise
  • Drinking amazing wine
  • Brewing average beer