Miscellaneous

Notes

Here are some random notes that I thought would be useful for a casual read. A lot of them contain mistakes and so please read them with your own caution.

• Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes - 12 November 2021. CSML Reading Group, Imperial College London. [Slides] [Demo]
• An Overview of Sparse Gaussian Processes

Lectures and Talks

I upload recordings of lectures and talks, both my own and others’, to my YouTube channel.

Code

• neural-processes: a PyTorch implementation of various Neural Processes

Side Projects

• [Covid-19 Age Specific Mortality Data]. An automated pipeline for collecting age-specific COVID-19 data.
• IC Hack 19, an application for live spatio-temporal modelling of temperatures and precipitation in the USA

Miscellaneous

• My maternal grandparents both also studied Mathematics at Beijing Normal University and were classmates there. My maternal grandfather 房兴业 (Fang Xingye) was then transferred to Peking University halfway through his studies.
• My grandfather was a Researcher (研究员, equivalent to academic rank of full professor) in the Aerospace Biomedical Engineering Research Center (航天医学工程研究所, now 中国航天员科研训练中心 Astronaut Center of China, ACC) founded by 钱学森 (Qian Xuesen). He dedicated his entire career towards China’s China Manned Space Program and led various module designs. He was awarded numerous national honors and prizes for his contributions and my grandparents rest at 八宝山革命公墓 (Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery).