Jan Povala

Postoctoral Researcher

The Alan Turing Institute

Biography

I am a Postdoctoral researcher at the Alan Turing Institute. My research focuses on modelling spatio-temporally correlated phenomena (see my published papers). Recently, I have been experimenting with deep learning methods for physics-based models.

Interests

Computational Statistics
Uncertainty Quantification
Spatio-temporal modelling
Bayesian Inverse Problems for PDEs
Physics-informed Machine Learning

Education

PhD in Statistics, 2018-2022

Imperial College London
MRes in Financial Computing, 2017-2018

University College London
MEng in Computing, 2011-2015

Imperial College London

Experience

Professional and academic work experience.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Alan Turing Institute

Dec 2021 – Present London

Building probabilistic models for trajectory prediction to allow for simulations of the UK airspace: combining mechanistic models with historical flights data and weather information.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Imperial College London

Oct 2019 – Jun 2021 London

Small-group tutorial sessions for undergraduate students (both remotely and in-person) for Introduction to Computing and Probability and Statistics modules

Analyst

Metropolitan Police Service

Oct 2018 – Nov 2018 London

Analyst in the Strategic Insights Unit

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

Sep 2015 – Sep 2017 London

Prime Video - Service Platform Team