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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
81
Citations
53499
World Ranking
988
National Ranking
50

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Yee Whye Teh is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and specializes in computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence and related subfields. Their work spans multiple areas, including deep learning, statistical modeling, and Bayesian inference.

Their research contributions cover a range of topics, including:

  • Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Machine Learning and Data Classification
  • Neural Networks and Applications
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Topic Modeling

Yee Whye Teh has published extensively in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
  • Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Methods

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19" (2020), published in Science
  • "AI for social good: unlocking the opportunity for positive impact" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Uncertainty Estimation Using a Single Deep Deterministic Neural Network" (2020), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "DeepC: predicting 3D genome folding using megabase-scale transfer learning" (2020), published in Nature Methods
  • "Distral: Robust Multitask Reinforcement Learning" (2025), published in Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Razvan Pascanu
  • Arnaud Doucet
  • Yarin Gal
  • Tim G. J. Rudner
  • Émile Mathieu

Their main contributions lie in advancing the domains of artificial intelligence and machine learning through both theoretical and applied work, frequently intersecting with epidemiological studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their publication record reflects a focus on statistical and computational methods for understanding complex systems.

Best Publications

  • A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets

    Geoffrey E. Hinton;Simon Osindero;Yee-Whye Teh

  • Sharing Clusters among Related Groups: Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes

    Yee W. Teh;Michael I. Jordan;Matthew J. Beal;David M. Blei

  • Bayesian Learning via Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics

    Max Welling;Yee W. Teh

  • The Concrete Distribution: A Continuous Relaxation of Discrete Random Variables

    Chris J. Maddison;Andriy Mnih;Yee Whye Teh

  • A Collapsed Variational Bayesian Inference Algorithm for Latent Dirichlet Allocation

    Yee W. Teh;David Newman;Max Welling

  • On smoothing and inference for topic models

    Arthur Asuncion;Max Welling;Padhraic Smyth;Yee Whye Teh

  • A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes

    Yee Whye Teh

  • Set Transformer: A Framework for Attention-based Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks

    Juho Lee;Yoonho Lee;Jungtaek Kim;Adam R. Kosiorek

  • A fast and simple algorithm for training neural probabilistic language models

    Andriy Mnih;Yee W. Teh

  • Names and faces in the news

    T.L. Berg;A.C. Berg;J. Edwards;M. Maire

  • Bayesian Nonparametrics: Hierarchical Bayesian nonparametric models with applications

    Yee Whye Teh;Michael I. Jordan

  • Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know?

    Eric T. Nalisnick;Akihiro Matsukawa;Yee Whye Teh;Dilan Görür

  • Distral: robust multitask reinforcement learning

    Yee Whye Teh;Victor Bapst;Wojciech Marian Czarnecki;John Quan

  • Progress & Compress: A scalable framework for continual learning

    Jonathan Schwarz;Jelena Luketina;Wojciech M. Czarnecki;Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska

  • Progress & Compress: A scalable framework for continual learning

    Jonathan Schwarz;Wojciech Czarnecki;Jelena Luketina;Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska

  • Beam sampling for the infinite hidden Markov model

    Jurgen Van Gael;Yunus Saatci;Yee Whye Teh;Zoubin Ghahramani

  • Dirichlet Process

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  • Stick-breaking Construction for the Indian Buffet Process

    Yee Whye Teh;Dilan Görür;Zoubin Ghahramani

  • AI for social good: unlocking the opportunity for positive impact.

    Nenad Tomašev;Julien Cornebise;Frank Hutter;Frank Hutter;Shakir Mohamed

  • Semiparametric Latent Factor Models

    Yee Whye Teh;Matthias W. Seeger;Michael I. Jordan

  • Augmented Neural ODEs

    Emilien Dupont;Arnaud Doucet;Yee Whye Teh

  • Neural Processes

    Marta Garnelo;Jonathan Schwarz;Dan Rosenbaum;Fabio Viola

Frequent Co-Authors

Balaji Lakshminarayanan
Balaji Lakshminarayanan Google (United States)
Max Welling
Max Welling University of Amsterdam
Nicolas Heess
Nicolas Heess DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Razvan Pascanu
Razvan Pascanu DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Frank Wood
Frank Wood University of British Columbia
Arnaud Doucet
Arnaud Doucet University of Oxford
Geoffrey E. Hinton
Geoffrey E. Hinton University of Toronto
Charles Blundell
Charles Blundell DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Zoubin Ghahramani
Zoubin Ghahramani University of Cambridge

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