OxfordXML
Promoting a cross-disciplinary machine learning community to share, learn and connect
OxfordXML brings together researchers across different disciplines to share and learn about the impact of machine learning in their respective fields, such as physics, finance, social sciences, engineering, healthcare, and psychology.
“What we want is a machine that can learn from experience”
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
our mission
To provide a cross-disciplinary platform for Machine Learning researchers to share, learn and connect with other researchers across different disciplines
our community
We bring together researchers from various disciplines to build a community that promotes knowledge transfer, networking and interdisciplinary collaboration.
our activities
Termtime hybrid talks, held at Wolfson College and online, discussing different applications of Machine Learning in an informal and supportive setting.
our audience
We welcome anyone interested in learning more about Machine Learning applications across different fields. Past attendees of our events include postgraduate students, early career researchers and professors.

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14

Oct

2025
Mastery — Why Deeper Learning is Essential in an Age of Distraction

Speakers: Dr Ulrik Juul Christensen & Jessica White

logo Activity Type: Seminar
Calendar Icon Date: 14th October | Time: 14:00–15:00 BST | 15:00–16:00 CEST
Location Icon Levett Room, Wolfson College & Online (Teams link).

Bio:

Ulrik Juul Christensen, M.D.
Executive Chairman and Founding Partner of Area9 — area9lyceum.com.

He serves as Executive Chairman for the Area9 Group that counts a high-end computer science company, Area9 Innovation, and Area9 Lyceum™ which was founded in 2018 to develop the next generation infrastructure for education targeting K-12, higher education, workforce development and corporate as well as government and defence.

He currently serves on the boards of a number of companies, as well as on the board of the Technical University of Denmark and Global Underwater Explorers and advisory boards of several educational organisations.

Jessica Kennedy White, BA (Hons), M.Sc.
Oxford University, Wolfson College Alumni
Ph.D. interdisciplinary researcher in Education and Human Computer Interaction at University of Sussex

She is a Learning Sciences Researcher and advisor to digital learning companies on learning design and innovation.

She served as Senior Director of Learning Sciences at Area9 Lyceum™ where her doctoral research explored evidence-based applications of their Adaptive Learning Platform that enables a mastery-based approach to teaching and learning.

Abstract:

How are teachers’ roles evolving? From sources of information – to sources of inspiration.

The outside world is changing digitally - humans need to change fast as well but stay human!

Join us for a fireside chat with Ulrik Juul Christensen M.D, co-author of Mastery: Why Deeper Learning is Essential in an Age of Distraction written with Tony Wagner.

We’ll explore why deeper learning is more essential than ever, how AI is reshaping education, and what it means to reimagine learning in this digital age.

Fireside chat at OxfordXML Wolfson College, University of Oxford and Online with Jessica Kennedy White, Ph.D researcher University of Sussex, University of Oxford Alumni, Wolfson College

Past events (2022-2024)

Events held and scheduled by us

Watch recordings of past events on our YouTube channel.

19
Jun 2025
Machine Learning at Autotrader and MLOps Practices in Production
Ahmed Osman
  • Wolfson College
    06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
10
Jun 2025
From Thermograms to Concepts: Using Concept Bottleneck Models to Balance Accuracy and Interpretability in Clinical AI Thermography
Mustafa Alghali
  • Wolfson College
    01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
29
May 2025
Engineering the Digital Universe
Dr Sepideh Chakaveh
  • Wolfson College
    01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
6
Mar 2025
Scalable and low-cost federated learning in the NHS using micro-computing
Andrew Soltan
  • Wolfson College
    06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
25
Feb 2025
Beyond the Benchmark: Bridging the Clinical AI Implementation Gap
Dr Brad Segal
  • Wolfson College
    06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
6
Feb 2025
Demystifying AI
Dr Sepideh Chakaveh
  • Wolfson College
    06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
26
Nov 2024
What have Large Language Models actually learned about language(s)? Lessons from linguistics and mechanistic interpretability
Dominik Lukeš
  • Wolfson College
    05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
7
Nov 2024
Active Learning for Billion Scale Data
Dr. Talfan Evans
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
23
Oct 2024
Bridging AI-Adaptive and Human Teaching: A Dialogic Approach to Blended, Multimodal Learning
Jessica White
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
19
Oct 2024
Linking creative clay models with AI 3D Printing and design
Margaret O'Rorke & Dr. Yi Yin
  • Wolfson College
    07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
16
Oct 2024
Combining AI and imaging to understand cardiovascular diseases
Prof Paul Leeson
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
5
Jun 2024
THE EMOTIONAL CONTENT OF CHILDREN'S WRITING: A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH
Rainy Dong
  • Wolfson College
    05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
30
May 2024
DEMONS: ROBUST SELF SUPERVISED DEPTH AND MOTION NETWORKS FOR ALL-DAY IMAGES
Madhu Vankadari
  • Wolfson College
    05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
23
May 2024
GEOMETRIC MACHINE LEARNING FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC 3D CARDIAC ANATOMY RECONSTRUCTION
Abhirup Banerjee
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
15
May 2024
ADVANCING AI-ECG DIAGNOSIS USING DEEP LEARNING AND NEURAL ARCHITECTURE SEARCH
Lei Lu
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
1
May 2024
The Law and Economics of AI
George R Barker
  • Wolfson College
    01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
21
Mar 2024
RESURRECTING RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS FOR LANGUAGE MODELLING
Razvan Pascanu
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
13
Mar 2024
Citizen Weather Data and Machine Learning to identify urban climate risk at high spatio-temporal resolution
Prof Jesus Lizana
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
7
Mar 2024
MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Jakob Foerster
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
6
Mar 2024
LINKING DISCIPLINES, OMICS AND AI TO IMPROVE HUMAN HEALTH
Prof James Crabbe
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
  • Wolfson College
    01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
27
Feb 2024
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR MATHEMATICAL DISCOVERY
Daattavya Aggarwal
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
19
Feb 2024
USER PROFILING FOR PERSONALIZATION
Dr Huizhi Liang
  • Wolfson College
    01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
15
Feb 2024
SEEING THE UNSEEN: MACHINE LEARNING IN CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
Dr Rasheda Chowdhury
  • Wolfson College
    01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
8
Feb 2024
RISKS AND BENEFITS OF OPEN SOURCING LANGUAGE MODELS
Jakob Foerster, Christian Schroeder, Aleksandar Petrov,
Francisco Girbal, Fazl Barez, Joshua Loo
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Engineering Science Department, Thom Building
31
Jan 2024
Multi-Agent Security
Christian Schroeder
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
24
Jan 2024
Speech recognition from brain scans
Dulhan Jayalath
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
  • Wolfson College
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
17
Jan 2024
MORAL UNCERTAINTY IN AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
Jázon Szabó
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
  • Wolfson College
    06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
06
Dec 2023
Physics-informed generative networks
Dr Fabio Pizzati
  • Wolfson College
    01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
30
Nov 2023
Bridging Millennia: Machine Learning's Impact on Assyriology
Ms Émilie Pagé-Perron
  • Wolfson College
    01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
23
Nov 2023
Embeddings for Knowledge Graphs and Multimodal Representations
Dr Nitisha Jain
  • 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  • Wolfson College
    Wolfson College
25
Oct 2023
Some applications of AI in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Dr Andrei Constantin
  • 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  • Wolfson College
13
Jun 2023
Personalised Treatment for Mental Health
Dr Qiang Liu
  • 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  • Wolfson College
2
Jun 2023
INNOVATING IN MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENT
Dr Miguel Xochicale
  • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
26
May 2023
Towards Safe & Robust AI for Image-Guided Diagnosis and Intervention
Dr Mobarakol Islam
  • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
19
May 2023
Feature Attribution for Neural Network Explanation & Diversified Dynamic Routing for Vision Tasks
Csaba Botos & Ashkan Khakzar
  • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
13
Mar 2023
Intelligence, artificial or not: conversations between developmental neuroscience and AI
Dr. Martin Frasch
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
More information: FraschLab.org
  • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
21
Feb 2023
How Do Language Models Like ChatGPT Process Complex Words?
Mr. Valentin Hofmann
Recording of the seminar can be viewed here.
  • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
9
Feb 2023
Advances in Sentiment Analysis of the Large Mass-Media Documents
Dr. Nicolay Rusnachenko
  • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
19
Jan 2023
An Arms Race in Intellectual Property Protection of Deep Learning Models
Dr Youcheng Sun
  • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
12
Jan 2023
GENERATING PATIENT RECORDS USING DIFFUSION MODELS
Dr Taha Ceritli
  • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
12
Dec 2022
LEVERAGING MACHINE LEARNING TO IDENTIFY BLOOD CANCER TYPES
Ms Helen Theissen
  • 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Wolfson College
21
Jun 2022
Application of deep learning in fetal heart rate monitoring
Dr Daniel Asfaw
  • 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
  • Florey Room, Wolfson College
30
jun 2022
Deep learning strategies for ultrasound in pregnancy
Dr Yi Yin
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Florey Room, Wolfson College
15
jul 2022
Predicting activity patterns of regulatory elements in zebrafish using ML
Ms Andrea Rodriguez Delherbe
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
26
jul 2022
Agent-based modelling of accent retraction in Balto-Slavic
Mr Toby Hudson
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
About Us
A vision for an open, cross-disciplinary machine learning network
Founded in 2019 by Dr Stephen Suryasentana (now at University of Strathclyde) and Dr Yaling Hsiao (now at Birmingham University), OxfordXML (where XML stands for Cross-disciplinary Machine Learning) is a research cluster based in Wolfson College that aims to provide a cross-disciplinary platform for researchers across different disciplines to come and share their experience on how machine learning or artificial intelligence has impacted on their research. Furthermore, it hopes to provide an open community for researchers across different departments to connect and initiate interdisciplinary collaboration.
Committee
  • Prof Antoniya Georgieva (Cluster Head) - Research focus on Health ML/AI
  • Prof Konstantinos Kamnitsas (Governing Body Fellow Overseeing the Cluster) - Research focus on Health ML/AI
  • Dr Yi Yin (Lead Organiser) - Research focus on Health ML/AI
  • Dr George Barker (Treasurer) - Research focus on Economics, Finance, Law, Public Policy & ML/AI
Cluster Affiliates
  • Dr Csaba Botos (Member of Events Organisation Team) - Industry Affiliate
  • Hussein Ibrahim (MSc Student in Applied Digital Health) - Research focus on Health ML/AI
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