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Last updated: Fall 2011
Emmanuel College
University of Cambridge
St Andrew's Street
Cambridge, UK CB2 3AP
d.roy@eng.cam.ac.uk
Newton Fellow, University of Cambridge (Apr. 2011 - Present)
Research Fellow, Emmanuel College (Oct. 2011 - Present)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science (2011)
Thesis: Computability, inference and modeling in probabilistic programming
Advisor: Leslie Kaelbling
Doctoral Committee: Joshua Tenenbaum, Yee Whye Teh, Scott Aaronson
MIT/EECS George M. Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award
Master of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2006)
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2004)
Combined GPA: 5.0 out of 5.0
University of Cambridge, Jesus College
Junior year abroad with Cambridge-MIT Exchange (2001 - 2002).
Research Assistant (2004 - 2011)
advisor, Leslie Kaelbling. Probabilistic machine learning.
Teaching Assistant, Inference and Information (Spring 2008)
with Polina Goland and Gregory Wornell. Graduate course on statistics and information theory.
Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning (Fall 2007)
with Tommi Jaakkola. Graduate course on statistical machine learning.
Visitor, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL (Summer 2007)
with, Yee Whye Teh. Partition-valued stochastic processes.
Research Assistant (2003 - 2004)
with Martin Rinard. Failure-oblivious computing; error localization and correction.
Teaching Assistant, Computer Language Engineering (Fall 2003)
with Martin Rinard. Undergraduate course on compilers.
Leverett House, Harvard University, Resident Tutor (2007 - 2011)
Served as a senior resident tutor under housemasters Prof. Howard Georgi and Ann Georgi, as well as sophomore advisor in computer science, mathematics and engineering.
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MIT/EECS George M. Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award (2011)
Awarded each year to the best doctoral dissertations in Computer Science at MIT.
Research Fellowship, Emmanuel College, Univ. of Cambridge (2011 - 2014)
Three-year appointment as a Fellow of Emmanuel College, during which time I will conduct research and be resident in the College. See this unofficial explanation of Cambridge JRFs.
Newton International Fellowship, Royal Society (2011 - 2013)
"The Newton International Fellowship scheme will select the very best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world, and offer support for two years at UK research institutions."
Host: Zoubin Ghahramani.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow (2009 - 2010)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (2005)
Three year fellowship granted to support PhD work at MIT.
Siebel Scholar
(2003 - 2004)
"The Siebel Scholars program honors five
outstanding graduate students each year at the world's most prestigious
business and computer science schools."
President's Scholar, Stanford University (1999, declined)
Semi-finalist: Intel Science
Talent Search (1999)
Semi-finalist: Lucent
Global Science Scholars (1999)
Research Science
Institute (RSI) (Summer 1998)
An intense, six week, full-scholarship program held at MIT during
which 80 high-school students from around the world conduct research
under the supervision of university professors.
3rd Year Design Project Prize, Cambridge University, England (2002)
6.035 Optimizing Compiler Competition - 1st place (2002)
Fastest optimizing compiler for a subset of Java.
Emerson Music Scholarship (2006)
Emerson Music Scholarship (2007)
Competitive scholarship awarded for private study of Cello.
Ragnar and Margaret Naess Award (2008)
"In recognition of exceptional talent and commitment to performance and private study of the cello as an Emerson String Scholar."
Available upon request.