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

D. Lundén, J. Öhman, J. Kudlicka, V. Senderov, F. Ronquist, D. Broman. Compiling universal probabilistic programming languages with efficient parallel sequential Monte Carlo inference. In to European Symposium on Programming (ESOP). 2022.

F. Ronquist^†, J. Kudlicka^†, V. Senderov^†, J. Borgström, N. Lartillot, D. Lundén, L. Murray, T. B. Schön, D. Broman. Probabilistic programming: a powerful new approach to statistical phylogenetics. Communications Biology, 4, 244. 2021.
^† Equal contribution
Abstract, bioRxiv, Full text (PDF)

J. Kudlicka, L. M. Murray, T. B. Schön, F. Lindsten. Particle filter with rejection control and unbiased estimator of the marginal likelihood. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 2020.
Abstract, arXiv, Full text (PDF)

J. Kudlicka, L. M. Murray, F. Ronquist, and T. B. Schön. Probabilistic programming for birth-death models of evolution using an alive particle filter with delayed sampling. In Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2019.
Abstract, arXiv, Full text (PDF), Poster (PDF), One-minute video presentation

L. M. Murray, D. Lundén, J. Kudlicka, D. Broman and T. B. Schön. Delayed sampling and automatic Rao-Blackwellization of probabilistic programs. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2018.
Abstract, arXiv, Full text (PDF)

Talks at conferences, seminars and guest lectures

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.

SMC for Probabilistic Programs, Uppsala, Sweden, 30 August 2019. Guest lecture at the Sequential Monte Carlo Methods course.
Slides (PDF)

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
Aplia AS, Norway	Board member
Aplia Holding AS, Norway	Director of the board
Safir Web AS, Norway	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.