Robin Young

Department of Computer Science and Technology
University of Cambridge

I am interested in accurate, calibrated Earth monitoring at global scale. Unlabeled Earth observation is basically unlimited, but costly field measurements are scarce and spatially clustered. Calibrated inference at high resolution over the whole Earth is intractable, and approximations that do scale well degrade uncertainty in ways that are often not well understood. My work develops amortized machine learning inference methods, analyzes where they fail, and applies them to carbon and biodiversity monitoring where downstream decisions often rely on maps with underquantified error.

I'm currently a PhD candidate at Cambridge's Energy and Environment Group advised by Srinivasan Keshav, where I also work on the Tessera foundation model. Aside from Cambridge, I also work with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks on understanding fungi better so that we can protect them. I previously did my masters at UIUC and undergrad at Vanderbilt University.

Publications
Probabilistic Machine Learning
Robin Young
Transactions on Machine Learning Research
2026
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Proceedings of the Symposium on Probabilistic Machine Learning (formerly AABI)
2026
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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Probabilistic Numerics (ProbNum)
2026
AI for Remote Sensing & Ecology
Robin Young, Michael E. Van Nuland, E. Toby Kiers, Tomáš Větrovský, Petr Kohout, Petr Baldrian, Srinivasan Keshav
Under revision at Nature Communications
2026
Zhengpeng Feng, Clement Atzberger, Sadiq Jaffer, Jovana Knezevic, Silja Sormunen, Robin Young, Madeline C. Lisaius, Markus Immitzer, Toby Jackson, James Ball, David A. Coomes, Anil Madhavapeddy, Andrew Blake, Srinivasan Keshav
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2026
Ghjulia Sialelli, Robin Young, Cesar Aybar, Yuchang Jiang, Damien Robert, Linus Scheibenreif, Clemens Mosig, Daniel Lusk, Martin Schwartz, Mikolaj Czerkawski, Zhengpeng Feng, Nandika Tsendbazar, Jan D. Wegner, Aleksis Pirinen, Olof Mogren, Konrad Schindler
Authored Uncertainty Quantification, Under revision at IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Magazine
2026
Zhengpeng Feng, Sadiq Jaffer, Ira Shokar, Jovana Knezevic, Mark Elvers, Clement Atzberger, Robin Young, Aneesh Naik, Niall Robinson, Andrew Blake, David Coomes, Anil Madhavapeddy, Srinivasan Keshav
Preprint
2026
Robin Young, Artyom Gabtraupov, Kenzy Soror, Srinivasan Keshav
Under review at Remote Sensing of Environment
2026
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J. P. Marshall, S. Hengst, R. Young, F. Kemper, L. Matrà, N. Pawellek, H. Kobayashi, P. Scicluna, S. T. Zeegers
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2026
Pedro Sousa, Will Tebbutt, Sadiq Jaffer, Robin Young, Anil Madhavapeddy, Richard E. Turner
Preprint
2026
Zhengpeng Feng, Clement Atzberger, Sadiq Jaffer, Jovana Knezevic, Silja Sormunen, Robin Young, Madeline Lisaius, Markus Immitzer, Toby Jackson, James Ball, David Coomes, Anil Madhavapeddy, Andrew Blake, Srinivasan Keshav
Preprint
2026