Mr Samuel Tonks

Samuel Tonks

School of Computer Science
Research Student

Contact details

Address
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Samuel is a final year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, supervised by Prof. Iain Styles, Dr. Alexander Krull and Prof. Ales Leonardis. His PhD is in collaboration with GSK with the industrial supervision of Minh Doan and Steve Hood and is set to finish November 2024.

Samuel's research interests lie in generative modelling, uncertainty quantification and predictive performance evaluation for conditional image generation problems in bioimaging applications.

Recently, Samuel worked on designing a pipeline for evaluating virtual staining for high-throughput screening (IEEE ISBI 2023 paper and oral). He received an Enrichment Award from The Alan Turing Institute the UK’s national institute for AI. He has been involved with the development of sci.vision an open-source computer vision package contributing code and pitching sci.vision at AIUK 2023 PitchFest. Samuel also recently ran an in-person workshop at The Alan Turing Institute on Uncertainty Quantification for Generative Modelling in September 2023.

For more about Samuel, please follow the link below:
Samuel Tonks's personal webpage

Qualifications

  • Distinction - Business Analytics MSc Imperial College London

Teaching

  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Neural Computation
  • Software Engineering & Professional Practise

Doctoral research

PhD title
Multimodal image-to-image translation for drug discovery
Supervisors
Dr Alexander Krull and Professor Iain Styles

Research

  • Machine Learning
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Generative modelling

Publications

  • Evaluating virtual staining of high-throughput screenings
  • Image Denoising and the Generative Accumulation of Photons