Lachlan McCalman

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Lachlan McCalman

Research Affiliate

Dr. Lachlan McCalman is the Chief Practitioner at Gradient Institute. Lachlan has spent the last decade developing algorithms and software systems to solve real-world problems with machine learning (ML) for governments and industry. He now applies that experience working at Gradient Institute to advance the theory and practice of ethical ML.

Previously at NICTA and CSIRO's Data61, Lachlan led teams of ML researchers, software engineers and domain experts to tackle large, interdisciplinary estimation problems requiring robust uncertainty quantification. Lachlan received his PhD in machine learning from the University of Sydney, after completing honours in theoretical physics at ANU.