Fariba Yousefi completed her PhD in Machine Learning at the department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. She joined the RSE Sheffield team as a machine learning research engineer.
Fariba left the RSE Sheffield team in 2022 to take up a role as an AI Scientist at AstraZeneca.
Her research interests are Gaussian Processes, data scarcity, imbalanced data and multi-task learning. She enjoys working on healthcare applications.
Fariba’s experience in chairing and organizing scientific events include: the Gaussian processes summer school (http://gpss.cc/) and the Women in Machine Learning (WiML https://wimlworkshop.org/), where she was the senior programme chair at the affinity workshop for ICML 2020.
She also contributes to open source projects such as GPy.