Dan Andrei Iliescu

Year 2 PhD Candidate in Machine Learning and Data Science
Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge





Short Bio


Studying towards a PhD in Machine Learning and Data Science under the supervision of Dr Damon Wischik. I am funded through a Studentship from the Alan Turing Institute. Focusing on representation learning and disentanglement of generative factors for image synthesis. Working with topics including Bayesian inference, information theory, image-to-image translation, Variational Autoencoders, GANs and Normalizing Flows. Previously completed an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science.


Obtained a First-Class BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. Produced a dissertation on Generative Adversarial Networks under the supervision of Prof Gavin Brown.



Publications


Iliescu, D.A., Mikhailiuk, A., Wischik, D.J. and Mantiuk, R.K., 2020. Disentangling Domain and Content. Preprint under review. [PDF]


Webb, A.M., Reynolds, C., Iliescu, D.A., Reeve, H., Luján, M. and Brown, G., 2019. Joint Training of Neural Network Ensembles. ECML PKDD 2020. [PDF]



Email: dai24[at]cl[dot]cam[dot]ac[dot]uk, LinkedIn, Behance.


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