Researchers in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol have been working with collaborators in the Societal Resilience team at Microsoft Research on advanced graph analysis techniques to help reveal the hidden structure of corruption. The University of Bristol team, led by Dr. Patrick Rubin-Delanchy and Prof. Nick Whiteley, has developed statistical techniques […]
Archive | February, 2022
Compass news round-up 2021
A news round up of Compass achievements over 2021 is now available. Visit the blog to find out more about what has been going on in Compass.
Welcome to Rihuan Ke
Dr Rihuan Ke joined the Institute for Statistical Science on 1 February 2022, as a Lecturer in Statistics. Rihuan received his PhD degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as a researcher at the University of Cambridge before joining the School of Mathematics at Bristol. His research interest lies in the fields of […]
Bayesian Analysis paper accepted
Congratulations to Dr Dennis Prangle, who has had a paper accepted at Bayesian Analysis, “Bayesian experimental design without posterior calculations: an adversarial approach”, written with Sophie Harbisher and Colin Gillespie. The paper proposes a method to speed up Bayesian experimental design and allow it to scale to hundreds of design choices. It replaces the standard way […]
