My name is Chris. Most of the things I do are driven by an interest in systems that learn to learn.

I grew up in Britain and in Hong Kong, places that emphasised the thrill of scientific discovery and its power to contribute to human flourishing. My time at Cambridge and other places led me to explore these problems:

• What are the genetic factors behind ageing and disease?
• How do we leverage the data we have to develop faithful models of biology that beat the dual curses of dimensionality and prior elicitation?
• How do we learn to learn, and imbue this effectively?

I now work in the field of AI reasoning to answer some of these questions.

“The rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.”

— Isaac Asimov, Foundation