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Seth Flaxman is a Professor at the University of Oxford in the Department of Computer Science and a tutorial fellow of Jesus College. His research interests lie in scalable methods, flexible models, spatiotemporal statistics, and Bayesian machine learning, particularly applied to public policy and social science. His work spans multiple application areas, including public health, computational statistical disease modeling, deep learning, and the analysis of satellite and street-level imagery. He also explores themes related to crime, voting patterns, media phenomena such as filter bubbles and echo chambers, and the implications of big data and machine learning in regulation and emotion analysis. Flaxman grew up in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and he is fluent in Yiddish. He holds a BA from Harvard College in mathematics and computer science and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in machine learning and public policy. Flaxman has held several academic positions, including a postdoc at the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford and a Senior Lecturer position at Imperial College London.
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford • Oxford, England
Conducted research in statistical methodologies.
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London • London, England
Lectured on mathematical subjects and supervised students.
Imperial College London • London, England
Taught and led research in advanced statistical modeling.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.