Miguel Rodrigues

Miguel Rodrigues is a Professor of Information Theory and Processing at University College London's Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering. He leads the Information, Inference and Machine Learning Lab at UCL and serves as the founder and director of the master programme in Integrated Machine Learning Systems. Rodrigues is also the UCL Turing University Lead and a Turing Fellow with the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

His academic background includes an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, and a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London. He has held appointments at prestigious institutions worldwide including Cambridge University, Princeton University, Duke University, and the University of Porto.

Dr. Rodrigues's research spans information theory, information processing, and machine learning. His work has attracted over £5 million in funding from competitive national and international funding bodies and resulted in more than 250 publications with over 8000 citations in leading journals and conferences, including top AI venues like NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR.

His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on multimodal learning, machine learning security, climate modeling with satellite data, and applications of AI in healthcare and precision medicine. His work shows increasing interdisciplinary collaboration across fields from climate science to pharmaceutical engineering.

• IEEE Communications and Information Theory Societies Joint Paper Award 2011
• Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
• Prize for Merit from the University of Porto
• Prize Engenheiro Cristian Spratley
• Prize Engenheiro Antonio de Almeida
• Fellowships from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
• Fellowships from the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian

Dr. Rodrigues has served as Editor for IEEE BITS – The Information Theory Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, among other editorial roles. He consults widely in machine learning and AI with government institutions, funding agencies, industry, and startups, and sits on committees responsible for AI standardization such as the BSI Art/1 working group. His leadership extends to directing research labs and educational programs focused on advancing machine learning systems.

He leads the Information, Inference and Machine Learning Lab at UCL, which focuses on fundamental aspects of information theory and their applications to machine learning and data processing. The lab works on both theoretical foundations and practical implementations of learning systems.