Welcome!

Hello, my name is Siu Lun (Alan) Chau. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Statistical Machine Learning at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. I lead the Epistemic Intelligence & Computation (EPIC) Lab, where we aim to understand how to design epistemically intelligent systems that can recognise and communicate the limits of their knowledge.

From 2023 to 2025, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rational Intelligence Lab within CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany, under the supervision of Dr. Krikamol Muandet. Between 2018 and 2023, I pursued my DPhil in Statistics at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Dino Sejdinovic. During my doctoral studies, I also interned at the Empirical Inference department of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen and at Amazon UK. I hold both a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Oxford, graduating in 2018 with First Class Honours and receiving the Departmental Prize for ranking top of the cohort. My master supervisor was Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar.

Outside of research, I enjoy exploring cities, discovering cafés, and engaging with creative workshops that add a little variety to everyday life. I am currently into jogging and boxing, and I enjoy reading books on psychology, economics, and philosophy.

I am deeply grateful to my students and collaborators for the many stimulating and rewarding collaborations we have shared. I view research as a collective effort to advance human knowledge, and I am always open to new ideas and partnerships. I would be delighted to hear from you.