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Ricardo Silva is a Professor in Statistical Machine Learning and Data Science at University College London. He received his PhD from the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. Before joining UCL, Ricardo was a Senior Research Fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Statistical Laboratory in Cambridge. His research interests include machine learning, causality, graphical models, Bayesian inference, and relational inference. Ricardo has published several influential papers in the field, including works on counterfactual fairness and causal inference. He has contributed to major conferences and journals, demonstrating a commitment to advancing the understanding of statistical methods within machine learning.