Alexander Capstick


About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, working with Alison Noble, where I am exploring methods for Learning to Defer for healthcare, an area of human-AI collaboration. This research focuses on designing methods that learn to dynamically route cases between predictive models and a team of human experts based on the humans' historical performance, cost, and availability, and the AI's uncertainty.

I conducted my PhD at Imperial College London, studying machine learning methods for remote healthcare monitoring using data from passive in-home sensors and wearables. This work was conducted at the Translational Machine Intelligence Lab, supervised by Payam Barnaghi.

During my doctoral research, I built multimodal predictive models, fine-tuned language encoders, extracted structured knowledge from LLMs, and trained models on unreliable data. My PhD work developed new approaches for maching learning and evaluated methods on real-world, continuously collected, time-series data. One of my predictive models was deployed in the homes of people living with Dementia and estimated infection risk based on wearable data and in-home acitivity sensors.

Before this, I completed a BSc in Mathematics at UCL and an MSc in Applied Mathematics at Imperial, which were formative for my approach to machine learning research.

My PhD thesis is available here: Machine Learning and Remote Healthcare Monitoring Applied to Dementia Care.


My Interests

I am interested in all things machine learning and maths, but specifically:

Outside of research, I am interested in photography, both film and digital, and hiking. I quickly pick up new hobbies, and am currently into making pizza and pasta dough, and collecting CDs.


Publications

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    Projects

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    Other projects can be found on my GitHub.


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