I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. I was previously Stein Fellow in the Department of Statistics at Stanford, where I did my PhD in the School of Medicine.

Sergio Bacallado

sb2116 at cam.ac.uk

Statistical Laboratory
Department of Pure Mathematics and
Mathematical Statistics
University of Cambridge
Centre for Mathematical Sciences D1.10

Research

I am a statistician specialising in Bayesian nonparametrics and algorithms for Bayesian inference. I am broadly interested in applications of Statistics and Machine Learning in structural biology, chemoinformatics, human microbiome studies, and the design of clinical trials. I have developed methods for the estimation of reversible time-series, with applications in the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations. I have also worked on Bayesian nonparametric models for compositional data in microbiome studies. More recently, I have been interested in applications of deep learning and language models in drug discovery, and in the study of remote homology of protein sequences.

I am a member of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine and the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information.

Students

Current
Past

Teaching

I have lectured the following courses at Cambridge. Course materials can be found on Moodle.

  • Part IB Statistics
  • Part II Statistical Modelling
  • Part III Bayesian Modelling and Computation
  • Part III Modern Statistical Methods
Plain Academic