Academic and Lecturing Staff
Meet the academic and lecturing staff of UCL’s Department of Statistical Science. Explore expert profiles, research interests, and teaching that shape world-class statistical education.
| Name | Research Interests | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Niloufar Abourashchi n.abourashchi@ucl.ac.uk | Financial mathematics; Coupling and mixing of diffusion processes; Multidimensional degenerate diffusion processes; Mathematical biology | Tel: 020 7679 1875 Ext: 41875 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 133 |
| Professor Gareth Ambler g.ambler@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Risk prediction models, Survival data, Clinical trials, Missing data | Tel: 020 7679 1878 Ext: 41878 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 237 |
| Professor Gianluca Baio g.baio@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Bayesian statistical modelling for cost effectiveness analysis and decision-making problems in the health systems, hierarchical/multilevel models and causal inference using the decision-theoretic approach | Tel: 020 7679 1248 Ext: 41248 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 131 |
| Professor Julie Barber j.barber@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Biostatistics | Tel: 020 7679 1825 Ext: 41825 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 237 |
| Dr Alessandro Barp alessandro.barp@ucl.ac.uk | Computational Statistics, kernel methods, geometric statistics and machine learning, diffusion-based sampling | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 126 |
| Dr Tom Bartlett thomas.bartlett.10@ucl.ac.uk | Computational Statistics, Genomics, Mathematical Biology, Multivariate and High Dimensional Data, Random Networks, Time-Series. | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 137 |
| Dr Andres Benchimol a.benchimol@ucl.ac.uk | Economics, Finance and Business | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 140 |
| Professor Alexandros Beskos a.beskos@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Bayesian Statistics, Computational Statistics, Machine Learning, Stochastic Volatility, Financial Statistics | Tel: 020 7679 8453 Ext: 48453 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 134 |
| Professor François-Xavier Briol f.briol@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Computational Statistics, Statistical Machine Learning, Uncertainty Quantification, Kernel Methods, Robustness | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room - 144 |
| Dr Anna Calissano a.calissano@ucl.ac.uk | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room - 126 | |
| Dr Purvasha Chakravarti p.chakravarti@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Computational Statistics; General Theory and Methodology; Multivariate and High Dimensional Data; Statistical Methods in High-Energy Particle Physics | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room - 142 |
| Professor Richard Chandler r.chandler@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Analysis of time series and space-time data, with application areas including hydrology and the impacts of climate change | Tel: 020 7679 1880 Ext: 41880 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room - 145 |
| Professor Codina Cotar c.cotar@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Probability Theory, Statistical Mechanics, Optimal Transport Methods in Probability Theory, Physics and Finance | Tel: 020 3108 3248 Ext: 53248 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room - 130 |
| Dr Alessandra Cipriani a.cipriani@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Statistical Mechanics, Random Interfaces, Random networks | Tel: 020 3108 4519 Ext: 54519 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room - 136 |
| Professor Petros Dellaportas p.dellaportas@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Machine learning, Bayesian theory and applications, Financial modelling | Tel: 020 8016 8454 Ext: 68454 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 125 |
| Professor Karla Diaz Ordaz karla.diaz-ordaz@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 142 | |
| Dr Alex Donov a.donov@ucl.ac.uk | Stochastic Regime Switching, Copula Theory, Financial Econometrics | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 121 |
| Dr Nuru Giritli n.giritli@ucl.ac.uk | Economics, Computerised General Equilibrium Models and Applications, Mathematical Economics | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 235 |
| Professor Jim Griffin j.griffin@ucl.ac.uk | Bayesian nonparametric modelling, high-dimensional regression modelling and time series modelling | Tel: 020 8016 8455 Ext: 68455 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 136 |
| Professor Serge Guillas s.guillas@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Functional data, time series, environmental statistics, calibration and emulation of complex computer models | Tel: 020 7679 1867 Ext: 41867 Office: |
| Dr Hilde M Herbots h.herbots@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Applied probability and stochastic models in genetics, epidemic models, applications of probability and statistics in the context of forensic evidence | Tel: 020 7679 1870 Ext: 41870 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 233 |
| Dr Thomas Honnor t.honnor@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Tel: 020 8016 8456 Ext: 68456 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 127 | |
| Dr Takoua Jendoubi t.jendoubi@ucl.ac.uk | Data Integration, Bayesian Statistics, Bayesian Nonparametrics, Probabilistic Models, Clustering, Association analysis | Tel: 020 8016 8457 Ext: 68457 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 137 |
| Professor Elinor Jones elinor.jones@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Inferring causality from observational epidemiological data, federated analysis of data when data cannot be pooled, statistics education | Tel: 020 8016 8458 Ext: 68458 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 140 |
| Dr Jeremias Knoblauch j.knoblauch@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Machine Learning, robustness, (Generalised) Bayesian inference, variational methods, uncertainty quantification | Tel: 020 31082260 Ext: 52260 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 144 |
| Dr Brieuc Lehmann b.lehmann@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Biostatistics, General Theory and Methodology, Computational Statistics | Tel: 020 3108 4472 Ext: 54472 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 138 |
| Dr Baptiste Leurent baptiste.leurent@ucl.ac.uk | Biostatistics | Tel: 020 7907 4638 Ext: 04638 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 237 |
| Dr Chak Hei (Hugo) Lo chak.lo@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Probability theory and its applications | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 143 |
| Dr Sam Livingstone samuel.livingstone@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Bayesian computation, with a particular focus on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods | Tel: 020 7679 1858 Ext:c41858 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 128 |
| Dr Sebastian Maier s.maier@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Computational stochastic optimisation, Data-driven statistical models, Decision-making under uncertainty, Operational research | Tel: 020 3108 6177 Ext: 56177 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 124 |
| Professor Robin Mitra robin.mitra@ucl.ac.uk | Biostatistics; Computational Statistics; General Theory and Methodology; Multivariate and High Dimensional Data | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 234 |
| Professor Ioanna Manolopoulou i.manolopoulou@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Bayesian statistics, semi-parametric modelling, mixture modelling, state-space models, cell motility, diffusion models, phylogeography, point processes | Tel: 020 8016 8460 Ext: 68460 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 125 |
| Professor Giampiero Marra giampiero.marra@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Penalized likelihood based inference in semiparametric simultaneous joint equation models, copula regression, generalized additive modelling | Tel: 020 7679 1864 Ext: 41864 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 128 |
| Professor Paul Northrop p.northrop@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Development and application of stochastic models for spatial-temporal rainfall processes; inference for complex stochastic processes; modelling of extreme values; applications in hydrology and climatology | Tel: 020 8016 8461 Ext: 68461 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 145 |
| Professor Rumana Omar r.omar@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Risk Prediction Models, Methods for handling missing data and data clustered within larger units, Trials methodology | Tel: 020 7679 1877 Ext: 41877 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 236 |
| Dr Menelaos Pavlou m.pavlou@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Risk Prediction Modelling, Prediction-oriented variable selection in low-dimensional settings, Penalised Regression method | Tel: 020 3108 53837 Ext: 53837 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 234 |
| Dr Yvo Pokern y.pokern@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Inference for diffusion processes including both parametric and nonparametric approaches, Bayesian methodology | Tel: 020 7679 1855 Ext: 41855 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 135a |
| Dr Matina Rassias m.rassias@ucl.ac.uk | Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Functional Differential Equations and their Applications, Functional Equations and Inequalities and their Applications, Statistics and Mathematics Education | Tel: 020 7679 1624 Ext: 41624 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 134 |
| Dr F. Javier Rubio f.j.rubio@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Bayesian Statistics, Objective Bayes, Model Selection, Survival Models, Longitudinal Models, Flexible distributions, Biostatistics | Tel: 020 3108 3828 Ext: 53828 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 138 |
| Dr Kayvan Sadeghi k.sadeghi@ucl.ac.uk | Graphical Markov Models and Random Network Models with a special interest in the conditional independence structures of such models | Tel: 020 8016 8463 Ext: 68463 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 124 |
| Dr Cemil Selcuk c.selcuk@ucl.ac.uk | Tel: 020 8016 8464 Ext: 68464 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place | |
| Dr Louis Sharrock l.sharrock@ucl.ac.uk | Computational Statistics and Machine Learning; General Theory and Methodology | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 235 |
| Professor Ricardo Silva ricardo.silva@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Machine learning, Causality, Graphical models, Bayesian inference, Relational inference | Tel: 020 8016 84 65 Ext: 68465 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 131a |
| Dr Emma Simpson emma.simpson@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Extreme value analysis; copulas and dependence modelling; spatio-temporal modelling; environmental applications | Tel: 020 3108 4265 Ext: 54265 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 127 |
| Professor Terry Soo t.soo@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Probability theory and Ergodic theory | Tel: 020 3108 3440 Ext: 53440 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 143 |
| Dr Katerina Stavrianaki k.stavrianaki@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Statistical seismology, seismic hazard and rock mechanics | Tel: 020 7679 9412 Ext: 09412 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 121 |
| Professor Ardo Van den Hout ardo.vandenhout@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis, multi-state models, change-point models, item response models | Tel: 020 3108 3243 Ext: 53243 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 233 |
| Dr Alexander Watson alexander.watson@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Lévy processes and applications, optimal control and stopping problems, models of fragmentation and growth, branching processes | Tel: 020 8016 8467 Ext: 68467 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 135a |
| Professor Jinghao Xue jinghao.xue@ucl.ac.uk UCL Profile | Statistical pattern recognition, Machine learning, Computer vision | Tel: 020 8016 8468 Ext: 68468 Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 131a |
| Ms Ilina Yozova | Causal Inference, Bayesian statistics, Non-parametric models | Tel: Ext: Office: 1-19 Torrington Place - Room 233 |