Dr Jeyan Thiyagalingam heads the Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) Research Group and the AI for Science initiatives at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the UK. The SciML group is one of the premier research groups working on AI for Science, and is a central to all STFC’s experimental facilities. Prior to joining STFC, he was a faculty member in the School of Electrical Engineering and Electronics and Computer Sciences at the University of Liverpool, and prior to that at the University of Oxford as a James Martin Fellow. He also worked in industry, including MathWorks UK. His research interests and expertise are on representation learning, complex machine learning models, and signal processing. He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, UK’s hub for AI research.