This year’s Annual Lecture hosted by the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (IMSS) will focus on Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML). We are delighted to host Dr. Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research New England and Stanford University), whose research interests include statistical machine learning and approximate inference, with a focus on scalable learning algorithms. The lecture also features invited talks by Prof. Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge), Paula Cordero Encinar (Imperial College London), and Dr. Alessandro Barp (UCL), who will present work on robust statistics, generative modelling, and statistical machine learning.