Teaching

More information about teaching, pedagogical development and awards

Research

My main research interests are probabilistic programming languages, their applications, and probabilistic inference (esp. Monte Carlo methods).

Publications

Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht, E., Granqvist, E., Buczek, M., Prus, M., Kudlicka, J., Roslin, T., Tack, A.J., Andersson, A.F., Miraldo, A., Ronquist, F. & Lukasik, P. (2023). Optimizing insect metabarcoding using replicated mock communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(4), 1130-1146.
Journal impact factor (2022): 6.6

Lundén, D., Hummelgren, L., Kudlicka, J., Eriksson, O., & Broman, D. (2023). Suspension Analysis and Selective Continuation-Passing Style for Higher-Order Probabilistic Programming Languages. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.13051.

Senderov, V.E., Kudlicka, J., Lunden, D., Palmkvist, V., Braga, M.P., Granqvist, E., Broman, D. & Ronquist, F.E. (2023). TreePPL: A Universal Probabilistic Programming Language for Phylogenetics. bioRxiv, 2023-10.

Lundén, D., Öhman, J., Kudlicka, J., Senderov, V., Ronquist, F., & Broman, D.(2022). Compiling universal probabilistic programming languages with efficient parallel sequential Monte Carlo inference. In European Symposium on Programming (ESOP), Programming Languages and Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13240 (pp. 29–56). Springer.
Awarded ESOP’22 Distinguished Artifact Award.
CORE2021 ranking of the conference: A

Ronquist, F.^†, Kudlicka, J.^†, Senderov, V.^†, Borgström, J., Lartillot, N., Lundén, D., Murray, L. M., Schön, T. B., & Broman, D. (2021). Universal probabilistic programming offers a powerful approach to statistical phylogenetics. Communications Biology, 4, 244.
^† Equal contribution.
Journal impact factor (2020): 6.268

Kudlicka, J., Murray, L. M., Schön, T. B., & Lindsten, F. (2020). Particle filter with rejection control and unbiased estimator of the marginal likelihood. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 5860–5864). IEEE.
CORE2018 ranking of the conference: B

Kudlicka, J., Murray, L. M., Ronquist, F., & Schön, T. B. (2019). Probabilistic programming for birth-death models of evolution using an alive particle filter with delayed sampling. In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
CORE2018 ranking of the conference: A*

Murray, L. M., Lundén, D., Kudlicka, J., Broman, D., & Schön, T. B. (2018). Delayed sampling and automatic Rao-Blackwellization of probabilistic programs. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) (pp. 1037–1046). PMLR.
CORE2018 ranking of the conference: A

Talks at conferences, workshops and research seminars

Probablistic programming, Verona, Italy, 24 May 2022. Talk at Data Analytics for Business workshop at University of Verona.

Probabilistic programming (and what it means for you), Oslo, Norway, 4 November 2021. Talk at a seminar in the Simula@BI Research Seminar series.

Probabilistic programming for phylogenetics, Online, 23 October 2020. Talk at the International Conference on Probabilistic Programming (ProbProg) 2020.
Video (YouTube)

AI within the sciences: AI in biology, Uppsala, Sweden, 29 January 2020. Talk at the IT20, a series of public talks celebrating 20 years of the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University.

Probabilistic programming for birth-death models of evolution, Uppsala, Sweden, 11 April 2019. Seminar at the Uppsala University Information Laboratory.

Teaching SQL in Database Design I, Uppsala, Sweden, 19 March 2019. Talk at the Conference on higher education pedagogy TUK 2019 organized by the Faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University.
Slides (PDF), Poster (PDF)

Bruk av digitale ressurser i undervisning (Using digital resources in teaching), Uppsala, Sweden, 17 October 2018. Seminar organized by the Council for Educational Development at the Faculty for Science and Technology, Uppsala University (TUR).

Probabilistic programming (together with Lawrence M. Murray), Uppsala, Sweden, 29 March 2017. Presentation at the Machine Learning Journal Club at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University.

Business roles

Company	Role
Safir Web AS, Norway	Director of the board
Min Kompetanse AS, Norway	Director of the board
Codx Holding AS, Norway	Director of the board
73bits AS, Norway	CEO, Director of the board

Contact

You can contact me by email at jan.kudlicka (at) bi.no.

If you are one of my students, you can also drop by my office B3Y-096.