Seth Flaxman
@flaxter
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associate professor, Department of Computer Science, Oxford he/him/ער/אים רעדט מיט מיר ייִדיש
Oxford, England
Joined June 2008
Watch my friend and collaborator Prof. Lucie Cluver (Department of Social Policy and Intervention) and me discuss our work on global health, policies to improve children's lives, and responding to orphanhood during the pandemic
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yesterday I got to explore this delightful and massive new building in the very centre of Oxford and I want to briefly talk about why sometimes demolishing old buildings is Good, Actually
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Come and do a post-doc with me, @EttieUnwin and @flaxter at @turinginst ! We're building a probabilistic programming community (incl. Bayesian modelling) with this position focusing on biodiversity, but with collaborations with spatial and health modellers
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Huge congrats to @valeriecbradley on successfully defending her DPhil thesis @OxfordStats OxWaSP CDT supervised by @sejDino and myself.
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Hello from @bristoluniv where @EttieUnwin and @flaxter are participating in https://t.co/95E5vCB5Mi Here's @EttieUnwin on "Using Hawkes Processes to model malaria in near elimination settings"
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It was great to be able to join remotely, thanks for organizing! @AIMS_Rwanda @MRC_Outbreak @Imperial_Stats @BristolUniMaths
We were back in Kigali this past week, teaching at @AIMS_Rwanda on "Modern Statistics and Machine Learning for Global Health"!
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Please get in touch if you're interested! It's advertised for just one year, but will hopefully be extendable (subject to funding approval, etc).
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In 2024, we: 1) have ongoing studies in Colombia, Zimbabwe, and Ukraine 2) are delving deep into simulation-based inference with deep generative models 3) are starting up a new programme at Oxford around climate change and global health
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In 2023, we: 1) collected data on excess mortality and orphanhood in Zambia 2) piloted a novel survey design methodology with the World Food Program in Zimbabwe 3) planned the first Machine Learning & Global Health workshop at ICLR in Kigali, Rwanda
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You'll have substantial independence to lead research projects at the intersection of computational statistics, machine learning and global health with partners at the World Health Organization, World Food Program, and US CDC.
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more than excited to congratulate @harrisonzhu5080 for passing his PhD viva 🎉🎉🎉 soon to be a doctor in Math! thanks a million to the examiners @samikaski and Kolyan Ray 🙏🙏🙏
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Last week @JoelKonzi was at #epidemics9 in Bologna, this week he's at #ICASA2023 in Harare presenting new estimates of all-cause orphanhood and the orphanhood multiplier for every country in Africa over time: https://t.co/arxIgo5zz7
Here's @JoelKonzi from @EdinburghUni last night, discussing his new estimates of the "orphanhood multiplier" in Africa for pandemic preparedness (joint work with @EttieUnwin @flaxter @MLGlobalHealth )
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Recruiting a PhD @BristolUniMaths to use probabilistic programming languages to improve the efficiency of infectious disease models. Do reach out.
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We are at #epidemics #epidemics9 in Bologna! Come meet us at all the poster sessions. @adamhowes has stickers:
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Presenting at MIT LIDS seminar today at 4pm! https://t.co/POhhTuudeu Thanks @ta_broderick for the invite and all the students for organizing it.
lids.mit.edu
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Heading to Boston @CCDD_HSPH to talk about inferential Artificial Intelligence today and case studies with @MLGlobalHealth. Thanks @eatonjw @marciacastrorj for the invite.
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Hello New Haven. I'm speaking tomorrow (10/23 at 12pm) @YaleSPH on ``inferential artificial intelligence'' and @MLGlobalHealth. Thanks @gregggonsalves for the invite. Slides are here:
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