John Winn

Microsoft Research Cambridge
Roger Needham Building
7 J. J. Thomson Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 0FB, U.K.
 
What's new

Video of lecture: Comparison of Expectation Propagation and Variational Message Passing using Infer.NET (Dec 2007)

Photo clip art project page including video. (May 2007)

The C-slate project - remote collaboration system using realtime object/gesture recognition. (Apr 2007)

New project integrating Functional Genomics/Genetics to help understand human disease in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Jan 2007)

New presentation on learning jigsaws for clustering appearance + shape. (Dec 2006)

Who am I? I am a researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, in the Machine Learning and Perception group. My main research interests are machine learning, machine vision and bioinformatics.
Biography

Previously, I was a Ph.D. student in the Inference Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, supervised by Chris Bishop and David MacKay. I have also been a member of the Signal Processing Group at the Engineering Department and the Learning and Vision Group at the MIT AI Lab. My undergraduate degree was in Electrical and Information Sciences at Cambridge University.

I was also a founder of Hypertag, a company which allows you to interact with adverts using your mobile phone.