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(pronounced as vidh-he)

v.lalchand at imperial.ac.uk


I am currently a Chapman Fellow in Mathematics at Imperial College London.
My interests are centered on probabilistic machine learning methodologies with an emphasis on structure and variation capture in high-dimensional data.
Concretely, my research spans three axes:
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Manifold learning, Dimensionality Reduction & Latent Structure Discovery.
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Probabilistic Latent Variable models and Deep Generative Modelling.
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Gaussian processes and kernel design.
I actively work in scientific applications of machine learning to problems in contemporary sciences like computational biology, drug-discovery and astronomy. I currently work on generative models for small molecules and the evaluation of foundational models through the lens of their representation learning capabilities.
I was a Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, and at MIT until 2026. I completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2024. I was based at the Cavendish Laboratory (Physics) and the Computational & Biological Learning Lab at the Dept. of Engineering. During my time in Cambridge I was a Turing Scholar and a member of Christ’s College. I was awarded a G-Research PhD prize for my thesis and a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.
I was supervised by Prof. Carl Rasmussen and Prof. Neil Lawrence at Cambridge and Prof. Caroline Uhler at MIT. I also hold a MPhil in Scientific Computing from the University of Cambridge (Distinction), an MSc in Applicable Mathematics from the LSE (Distinction). I did my undergraduation in Mathematics (major) at LSE.
Core Interests
Industry
Earlier in my career, I worked in algorithmic trading, developing models for global FX markets at Credit Suisse and pan-European equities at Citadel LLC between 2011 and 2015 in London.
Current: I frequently consult as an adjunct scientist with biotechnology start-ups and hedge funds on the research and development of generative machine learning methodologies to problems in biology, medicine, and quantitative finance.
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Latent Variable Models
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Gaussian Processes
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Kernel Methods
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Hierarchical Bayesian Models
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Manifold Learning
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Geometric Interpretations
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Foundation Models for Science

For a full list of my publications please see my Google Scholar.
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