HackTalk: Oliver Crook - Keynote on Bayesian ML for Biosecurity
Keynote: Oliver Crook (University of Oxford)
Bayesian ML for Biosecurity
Second keynote of the AIxBio Hackathon. Recording available after.
Dr. Oliver Crook is an MRC Career Development Award Fellow and Group Leader at the Kavli Institute for NanoScience Discovery, University of Oxford, and a Todd-Bird Junior Research Fellow at New College. His group develops computational and statistical methods drawing on Bayesian machine learning, structural biology, and AI interpretability, with applications in molecular parasitology, protein design, and biosecurity. Before starting his group in 2025, he was seconded to the UK Government's AI Safety Institute to lead a protein design team.
He'll share how he thinks about uncertainty-aware methods for AIxBio, where his group's work connects to the biosecurity conversation, and the kinds of hackathon outputs that could move the field.
Format: 20-30 min talk + Q&A.
Part of the AIxBio Hackathon opening day.