Simon John Godsill (born 2 December 1965) is professor of statistical signal processing at the University of Cambridge, and a professorial fellow at Corpus Christi College. He is also a member of the Centre for Science and Policy. His main area of research is Bayesian statistics and stochastic sampling methodologies, particularly particle filtering.
Education
Godsill attended Selwyn College, Cambridge, obtaining a first class degree in the Electrical and Information Sciences Tripos in 1988. He then went on to receive a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University in 1993, with a thesis entitled "The Restoration of Degraded Audio Signals"WorldCat item record and his Ph.D. supervisor was Peter Rayner, whom he shared with Mike Lynch.
Career
Godsill has published over 250 articles in peer reviewed journals, along with the books Digital audio restoration: a statistical model based approachGodsill, Simon J., and Peter J. W. Rayner. Digital Audio Restoration: A Statistical Model Based Approach. New York: Springer, 1998. http://www.worldcat.org/title/digital-audio-restoration-a-statistical-model-based-approach/oclc/38215802&referer=brief_results[ WorldCat item record] and Compressed sensing & sparse filtering.Carmi, Avishy Y., Lyudmila Mihaylova, and Simon J. Godsill. Compressed Sensing & Sparse Filtering. 2013. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013 WorldCat item record
Business interests Godsill is currently a director of CEDAR Audio Ltd, a Cambridge-based company that applies Bayesian mathematics for purposes of noise reduction in audio data. In February 2005, the company received a Sci-Tech Academy Award (a 'Technical Oscar') for its services to the movie industry, and a stream of innovations appeared over the following years with corresponding recognition including induction into the Audio Technology Hall of Fame (2008), a Cinema Audio Society Award (2009). Godsill is also a director at Input Dynamics Ltd, a Cambridge-based company that applies Bayesian techniques to touch screen technology. Godsill is involved with the research effort at BMLL Technologies,https://www.bmlltech.com/, BMLL Technologies Ltd. a Cambridge spin-off working in the field of machine learning application in the financial sector.
References
External links Particle Filters, lecture at the Machine Learning Summer School, Cambridge, 2009