We are excited to announce a new partnership between Compass – the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Statistics and Data Science – and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The first step in this new partnership is a co-funded and co-created PhD research project entitled A spatially explicit assessment of agro-pastoral sustainability in Kenya and Ethiopia. […]
Archive | 2021
Prof. Anthony Lee and Dr. Andi Wang deliver talks at End-to-end Bayesian learning conference
Prof. Anthony Lee and Dr. Andi Wang recently gave talks at the End-to-End Bayesian Learning meeting, 25-29 October held at CIRM, Marseilles in France. The meeting brought together a large international group of researchers working on a range of Bayesian statistics problems, ranging from fundamental theory, to methodological guarantees, to applied Bayesian modelling. Anthony Lee gave […]
Colloquium – Imre Leader
Monday 13th December 2021: 15.00 – 16.00 We are delighted to welcome Imre Leader, Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge, to deliver a Heilbronn colloquium in person, at the University of Bristol. Title: Pursuit and Evasion Abstract: In Rado’s famous `lion and man’ problem, a man and a lion are in a circular arena. The […]
Paper published in JRSS(C)
Peter Green and honorary professor Julia Mortera have published an article in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, Applied Statistics, on inference about complex relationships using peak height data from DNA mixtures. The paper presents models and methods for analysing forensic DNA profiles which evidently contain DNA from more than one individual, […]
Six School of Mathematics academics awarded Turing Fellowship
Six academics from the Institute for Statistical Science have been awarded Turing Fellowships from the Alan Turing Institute. Congratulations to Haeran Cho, Sidharth Jaggi, Daniel Lawson, Henry Reeve, Patrick Rubin-Delanchy and Nick Whiteley who have been named as fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year. Turing Fellows are scholars with proven research excellence in data science, […]
Paper accepted in the Annals of Statistics
Dr Henry Reeve has had a paper accepted in the Annals of Statistics. In a multitude of potential AI applications, from precision medicine through to automated fraud detection, we are faced with a problem of data scarcity, whereby the practitioner only has access to a small quantity of data closely aligned to their task of […]
Welcome to Dennis Prangle
Dennis Prangle has joined the Institute for Statistical Science as Senior Lecturer. He received his PhD from Lancaster University in 2011, and has since worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Reading University and a lecturer at Newcastle University. His main research area is likelihood-free inference. This involves fitting statistical models when it is only possible […]
New paper published at JRSS(B)
Dr Song Liu’s paper ‘Two-sample inference for high-dimensional Markov networks’ has been accepted by the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B). Graphical models are probabilistic models that encode dependencies among random variables. By comparing two graphical models under two different settings, we gain important insights about our data: such as how gene networks react […]
COMPASS CDT students select research projects
The second cohort of the EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Statistics and Data Science have chosen the research topics for their PhDs. For more details of the topics they will be working on and their supervisors, from the Institute, academic partner departments and industry then see the COMPASS blog post.
Jennifer Chakravarty graduates with PhD
Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Chakravarty, who recently graduated with a PhD. Her thesis was supervised by Professor Oliver Johnson and Professor Robert Piechocki and titled Physical Layer Security for Next Generation Wireless Systems. She is now a Heilbronn Research Fellow in Bristol, working on Data Science.
