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Professor Mark Girolami

Position	Chair in Statistics
Phone (external)	+44(0)20 7679 1861
Phone (internal)	41861
Email(*)	m.girolami
Personal webpage	http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakmag/
Themes	Computational Statistics, Multivariate and High Dimensional Data, Biostatistics

*@ucl.ac.uk

Biographical Details

Mark Girolami is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistical Science. He also holds a professorial post in the Department of Computer Science at UCL and is Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML), a large multi-faculty centre of world leading research excellence in statistical science, statistical learning theory, and statistical machine learning. 

His research, and that of his group, addresses the theory, methodology and application of Computational Statistics and has very strong multidisciplinary interactions with the life, clinical, physical and engineering sciences. He has an H-index of 35 and currently holds over £3M in research funding from EPSRC, BBSRC, CRUK, EU FP7. 

Prior to joining UCL Mark held a Chair in Computing and Inferential Science at the University of Glasgow. He is currently an Associate Editor for J. R. Statist. Soc. C, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Statistics & Computing, and Area Editor for Pattern Recognition Letters. He is a member of the Research Section of the Royal Statistical Society. 

In his copious spare time he enjoys cycling to exhaustion, fine dining in Michelin starred restaurants, enjoying the occasional Cuban cigar, and looking after his feline friends.

• 2012 - 2017. Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
• 2012 - 2017. EPSRC Established Career Research Fellowship
• 2011. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
• 2009. Pioneer Award by the International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
• 2007 - 2012. EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship  
• 2007. Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship (declined)

Research Interests

Statistical Methodology, Computational Statistics, Machine Learning.

Selected publications

• Girolami M. Calderhead B. (2011) Riemann manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods. J. R. Statist. Soc. B. (with discussion). 73, Part 2. pp 1-37.
• Zhong M. Girolami M. Faulds K. Graham D. (2011) Bayesian methods to detect dye-labelled DNA oligonucleotides in multiplexed Raman spectra. J. R. Statist. Soc. C. 60, Part 3. pp 1-20.
• Hopcroft L. McBride M. Harris K. Sampson A. McClure J. Graham D. Young G. Holyoake T. Girolami M. and Dominiczak A. (2010) Predictive response-relevant clustering of expression data provides insights into disease processes. Nucleic Acids Research, 38, Part 20. pp 6831 - 6840.
• Xu T. Vyshemirsky V. Gormand A. von Kriegsheim A. Girolami M. Baillie G. Ketley D. Dunlop A. Milligan G. Houslay M. and Walter Kolch. (2010) Inferring Signaling Pathway Topologies from Multiple Perturbation Measurements of Specific Biochemical Species. Science. Signal. Volume 3, Issue 113. pp 1 - 10.
• Calderhead B. Girolami M. (2009) Estimating Bayes factors via thermodynamic Integration and Population MCMC. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 48. pp 4028 - 4045.
• Calderhead B. Girolami M. Lawrence N. (2009) Accelerating Bayesian Inference over Nonlinear Differential Equations with Gaussian Processes. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, MIT Press, pp 217 - 224.
• Vyshemirsky V. Girolami M. (2008) Bayesian ranking of biochemical system models. Bioinformatics, Volume 24, Issue 6, pp 833 - 839.