Statistical Science News
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- Dr Maria De Iorio elected to board of International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- A First Course in Machine Learning by Dr Simon Rogers and Professor Mark Girolami published
- Dr Gianluca Baio awarded grant from Sanofi Pasteur Merck Sharpe and Dohm
- Professor Patrick Wolfe to join Department
- The IT Future of Medicine project to present at the FET Flagship Midterm Conference in Warsaw
- Professor Mark Girolami and Professor Sofia Olhede to speak at Royal Society
- Team involving Dr Gianluca Baio awarded grant funding in excess of £1.7m
- Biostatistics research theme enjoys continued grant success
- Dr Ardo van den Hout to join Department
- Inaugural UCL and Partners' Biostatistics Network Symposium a Success
- 6-7 studentships available for applicants from UK/EU for the MSc in Statistics programme 2012-13
- Dr James Nelson involved in defence consultancy role
- Dr James Nelson awarded a £96k EPSRC grant
- Dr Serge Guillas awarded 30,000 euros of funding from PASCAL2
- Professor Mark Girolami to speak at PEDS-II Workshop
- Dr Gianluca Baio to give talks at two conferences later this year.
- PhD Studentships in Statistics Available: “Big Data” and its Applications
- Professor Valerie Isham to speak at Princeton Symposium
- Professor Valerie Isham to visit Mathematical Biosciences Institute in Columbus, Ohio
- Dr Ricardo Silva awarded an EPSRC First Grant
- Dr Alexandros Beskos awarded an EPSRC First Grant
- Dr Yvo Pokern: Nonparametric Drift Estimation for Stochastic Differential Equations
- Senior Research Fellowship Award Success
- PhD Studentships in Statistical Science
- Dr Soo Ling Lim: App Store simulation research reported in New Scientist
- Dr Gianluca Baio: Novel health economic evaluation of a vaccination strategy to prevent HPV-related diseases: the BEST study
- Professor Valerie Isham to speak at Conference on Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases
- Joanna Kaczmarska and Professor Valerie Isham to speak at Workshop on Stochastic Weather Generators
- Dr Ricardo Silva to speak at BeneLearn 2012
- Lecturer in Statistics Vacancy
- Research student Michael Epstein awarded best poster prize at the Second Annual CLMS Symposium
- Dr Ben Calderhead and Professor Mark Girolami awarded HECToR Distributed CSE funding
- Dr Rumana Omar awarded MRC funding for prognostic modelling research
- Dr Ricardo Silva to speak at workshop on networks
- UCL Statistical Science to lead consortium in risk and uncertainty for natural hazards
- R package BCEA (Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis) now available for download
- Dr Simon Byrne awarded EPSRC Fellowship
- Fully Funded PhD Studentships in Statistical Science x2
- Imperial - UCL Joint Statistics Symposium
- Paper jointly authored by Dr Christian Hennig to be presented as read paper at RSS Ordinary Meeting
- NIPS paper by Dr Ben Calderhead accepted for publication
- Professor Mark Girolami awarded EPSRC funding to lead UK research network on computational statistics and machine learning
- Dr Gianluca Baio invited to speak in Turin
- Dr Gareth Peters invited to speak at the University of Lille
- Dr Nikolaos Kantas and Dr Gareth Peters speak at the Ecole Polytechnique
- Dr Gareth Peters joins Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance
- Professor Valerie Isham jointly awarded Australian Research Council Grant
- Dr Gianluca Baio invited to give a short course in Rome
- Dr James Nelson awarded fully funded 4 year studentship in statistical signal processing and machine learning
- Dr James Nelson awarded research contract with Atlas Elektronik
- Team led by Dr Gianluca Baio awarded research grant from the MRC
- Dr Gareth Peters awarded UK-ASEAN Knowledge Partnership Mobility Scheme grant
- Dr Gareth Peters invited to present at international conference on banking in Sumy, Ukraine
- Mathematical and Physical Sciences Graduate Open Day - 23 January 2013
- Dr Serge Guillas awarded funding from UCL Business to study tsunami risk
- Professor Mark Girolami awarded EPSRC funding to advance Interactive Machine Learning as an emerging theme of ICT research
- Research team including Dr Gianluca Baio funded by the MRC
- Professor Mark Girolami appointed Editor-in-Chief of Statistics and Computing
- Dr Codina Cotar to speak at four conferences later in 2013
- Dr Codina Cotar invited to MSRI, Berkeley
- Dr Ioannis Kosmidis' work on the estimation of models for ordinal responses to appear in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B
- Warwick Public Lecture in Mathematics and Statistics
- Team including Dr Gianluca Baio awarded research grant by Alzheimer's Society
- Dr Gareth Peters awarded Royal Society International Exchange Grant
- Dr Gareth Peters invited to present several seminars on financial modelling
- Dr Christian Hennig awarded EPSRC standard research grant
- Dr Christian Hennig to speak in the president's invited session at IFCS 2013, Tilburg
- Professor Patrick Wolfe receives 5-year research fellowship
- Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Statistical Science Now Available
- Dr Gareth Peters a cooperative researcher in Japanese KAKENHI grant success
- Meeting on variable selection and dimension reduction in clustering and classification
- Dr Aidan O'Keeffe to join MRC-funded project within the department
PhD Studentships in Statistics Available: “Big Data” and its Applications
1 February 2012
PhD Studentships in Statistics: “Big Data” and its applications to Social Network Dynamics, Behavioural Finance, Business Analytics, Computational Retail and Healthcare.
Applications are invited for PhD funding opportunities based in the Departments of Statistical Science and Computer Science at University College London, to start no later than September-November 2012.
UCL is ranked among the top ten research institutions worldwide and has unique strengths in Statistics and Machine Learning. Together with other groups at UCL, the Departments of Statistical Science and Computer Science form the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, which is part of the European network PASCAL. UCL is a member of the London Taught Course Centre which provides additional training in foundations of Mathematics and Statistics. UCL also offers training via its graduate school.
The studentships are funded by the UK PhD Centre in Financial Computing and are tenable for 48 months (1 year Masters study followed by 3 years of applied research). The full award covers living expenses as well as tuition fees (subject to eligibility).
Studentship Description
Successful applicants will work with Professor P J Wolfe and colleagues in Computational Finance to develop methods of modelling and inference for graphs and networks, including time series analysis and other aspects of “Big Data”, with applications to social networks and behavioural finance, business analytics, and computational retail and healthcare. The scale and nature of such datasets necessitates new analytical-computational approaches to statistical modelling, putting these problems at the forefront of contemporary statistical theory and practice.
Person Specification
The requirement for admission to the MPhil/PhD in Statistical Science is a 1st class or high upper 2nd class BSc degree, or an MSc with merit or distinction in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline. Overseas qualifications of an equivalent standard are also acceptable.
How to Apply
To inquire about these studentships please contact Yonita Carter, y.carter@cs.ucl.ac.uk. Candidates should also apply for the MPhil/PhD in Statistical Science in the usual way by completing the online form available here. Applications will be evaluated on an ongoing basis.
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