Richard is a Reader in Machine Learning and Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He is Director of the Cambridge Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil programme and Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in the Application of Artificial Intelligence to the study of Environmental Risks. He has received funding from Microsoft, Toyota, Google, DeepMind, Amazon, Improbable and EPSRC. He is on the Executive Committee for the Cambridge Centre for Data Driven Discovery and has been awarded the Cambridge Students’ Union Teaching Award. His work has featured on BBC Radio 5 Live’s The Naked Scientists, BBC World Service’s Click and in Wired Magazine. He is an ELLIS fellow.