Statistical Laboratory                                                                                                            


Members of the Statistical Laboratory


Director

Prof. J.R.Norris [Home Page][Personal Home Page]
Stochastic analysis, coagulation, Malliavin calculus, heat kernels, homogenization


Academic Staff (University Professors, Readers & Lecturers)

Dr N. Berestycki [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Probability theory: coalescence and fragmentation, random walks, Brownian motion, stochastic models in population genetics, in statistical physics, and in combinatorics

Prof. A. P. Dawid [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Foundations of probability and statistics; evidential reasoning; causal inference; graphical models; forecasting systems; DNA profiling

Dr P.K.Friz [Home Page][Personal Home Page]

Prof. G. R. Grimmett [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Probability theory, combinatorial theory, stochastic models in statistical physics, probabilistic number theory

 Dr R. B. Gramacy [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Bayesian statistics, modeling, methodology and implementation, statistical computing, Markov chain Monte Carlo, nonparametric regression, and experimental design

Prof. F. P. Kelly FRS [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Random processes, networks and optimization, especially applications to the design and control of networks and the understanding of congestion phenomena

Dr R. Nickl [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Mathematical statistics, theory of empirical processes, nonparametric statistical function and density estimation, probability theory in infinite-dimensional spaces

Dr S. M. Pitts [Home Page]
Nonparametric estimation and approximations in stochastic models; Queueing theory; Insurance mathematics

Prof. L.C.G. Rogers [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Financial mathematics, probability theory, stochastic analysis, statistics, mathematical economics

Dr R.J. Samworth [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Statistics: especially nonparametric and high-dimensional problems such as  shape constrained density estimation, nonparametric classification,  clustering and regression problems, the bootstrap and variable selection

Prof. D. Spiegelhalter, FRS [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Public understanding of uncertainty and risk, Bayesian methods, biostatistics, performance assessment

 Prof. Y. M. Suhov [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Statistical mechanics, communication theory, queueing systems, networks including neural networks.

Dr M.R. Tehranchi [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Financial Mathematics, Stochastic Analysis

Prof. R.R. Weber [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Mathematics for operational research and systems; models in telecommunications and operations management; control of queues, stochastic networks, on-line bin-packing, ergodicity of Markov processes, optimal search, stochastic scheduling, dynamic resource allocation, financial mathematics.

Affiliated Lecturers

Prof. S.Bird (based at MRC Biostatistics Unit) [Home Page]

Dr N.Datta [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Quantum Information Theory: additivity, data compression and transmission for sources and channels with memory, entanglement manipulation and the quantum information spectrum

Prof. V. Farewell (based at MRC Biostatistics Unit) [Home Page]

Dr B. Tom (based at MRC Biostatistics Unit) [MRC Home Page] [Lab Home Page]

Dr S. Singh (Dept. Engineering) [Home Page]

Dr P. Treasure [Home Page]

Emeritus Academic Staff

Dr P. M. E. Altham [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Analysis of discrete data, multivariate analysis, generalized linear modelling, S-Plus, graphical methods, statistical consulting

Prof. M.A.H.  Dempster [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Mathematical and computational finance and economics, optimization and nonlinear analysis, stochastic systems, algorithm analysis and applications software

Dr D.P. Kennedy [Home Page] [Personal Home Page
Limit theorems in applied probability, sequential decision processes, optimal stopping, financial modelling

Prof. P. Whittle [Home Page]
Sequential optimisation problems, stochastic processes, neural networks


Research Staff (Research Associates, Research Fellows, and other attached academic staff)

Christoforos Anagnostopoulos [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Computational Statistics and Machine Learning

Dr I. Bailleul [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Probability, coagulation, stochastic calculus

Prof. C. Berzuini [Home Page]

 E.Bassouls [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Modelling

Dr C. Bowsher [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Statistics of dynamic systems: marked point process methods; graphical modelling and causal inference in dynamic settings; stochastic reaction networks in systems biology

Dr J. Bjornberg [Home Page][Personal Home Page]

Dr S. Chiappa [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]

Dr I. Cosma [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Particle learning for portfolio balancing, data streaming, random projections

Dr S. de Rooij [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]

Ms A. Garay-Arevalo [Home Page]

Dr K.  Lounici [Home Page][Personal Home Page]
High dimensional statistics, sparsity, oracle inequalities, statistical learning, empirical processes.

Neil Walton [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]

Dr A. Yadin [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Probability, Discrete Complex Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Combinatorics

Research Students
Ezequiel Antar [Home Page]
Francois Berrier [Home Page]
Angus Brown [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Adam Bull [Home Page]
Simon Byrne [Home Page]
Madeleine Cule [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Panayiota Constantinou [Home Page]
Tom Ellis [Home Page]
Jimmy Fan [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Timothy Graves [Home Page]
Hui Guo [Home Page]
Stephanie Jacquot [Home Page]
Andre Kueh [Home Page]
James Lawrence [Home Page]
Sarah Lilienthal [Home Page]
Ioan Manolescu [Home Page]
James Murphy [Home Page]
Richard Pymar [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Li Qin [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Ben Roberts [Home Page]
Omri Ross [Home Page]
Perla Sousi [Home Page]
Christiana Spyrou [Home Page]
Sinan Yildirim [Home Page]
Elena Yudovina [Home Page][Personal Home Page]
Liang Zhang [Home Page]

Research Students based at the MRC-BSU

Stephen Burgess
Lynne Cresswell
Marina Evangelou 
Venediktos Kapetanakis
Yang Luo
Aidan O'Keeffee
John Ried
Verena Roloff
Alexander Strawbridge
Howard Thom
Denis Wang
Qing Wang
James Wason
Yang  Xia

M. Phil. Students

Alexis Bourel [Home Pagel
Mathieu Cambou [Home Page]
James Chan   [Home Page] 
Yining Chen [Home Page]
Rita Cheung [Home Page]
Johnny Chow   [Home Page]
Shuangzi Guo [Home Page]
Sarah Hegarty [Home Page]
Helen Jordan [Home Page]
Jean-Jacques  Schraemli [Home Page]
Moxi Sun [Home Page]
Susan Thomas [Home Page]
Sofoclis  Zambirinis [Home Page]
Chenye  Zhang [Home Page]
Chun  Zhang [Home Page]

Visiting Fellows

Dr Peter Key [Home Page]
Dr Elena Medova [Home Page] [JBS Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Dr Gaurav Raina [Personal Home Page]

Visitors

Prof.  L. Bernardinelli
Prof. S. Cohen
Dr M. Parry [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]


Administrative Staff

Julia Blackwell [Home Page
Secretary
Dr Eva Myers [Home Page] [Personal Home Page]
Computer Officer
John Shimmon [Home Page]
Assistant Secretary