Prospective PhD students and PostDoc researchers

I am actively looking for PhD students and PostDoc researchers with strong mathematical, statistical or computational backgrounds to join my group. Feel free to contact me directly if you are interested in doing a PhD with me as your supervisor or if you are interested in doing post-doctoral work with me. Please include a CV, a brief research statement, and an outline of the reasons you want to work with me.

Information about doing a PhD in the Department of Statistics at University of Warwick, the application process and funding opportunities can be found at the Department of Statistics webpages.

If you are a current PhD student at a UK institution, the enrichment scheme at the Alan Turing Institute is a good opportunity to join and work from the Turing Institute for 6-12 months. Feel free to contact me if you want and can spend part of your PhD collaborating with me on something related to my research agenda (see below and at my research and software pages). Calls for applications typically appear at the enrichment scheme pages but I will also be posting them above.

For post-doctoral appointments, apart from posts that I may be advertising occasionally, there is typically a range of funding opportunities that can be explored, both ad-hoc and by submitting proposals to research councils. If you are interested in the latter, the earlier that you contact me before your intended start date the better.

Topics of interest

My research interests are both in the theory and methodology of statistical learning and inference, and in the application of statistics in other fields, including sport science, finance, eartquake engineering, neuroimaging, and genomics. I am also particularly interested in the design and development of scientific (and non-only) software.

Feel free to browse my research and software pages for more details on what I am currently interested in and my recent research outputs. Some topics, aspects of which I am especially keen on exploring with PhD students and PostDocs at present are:

  • Asymptotic methods for improved estimation and inference in modern modelling scenarios
    (e.g. high-dimensional models, functional regression, etc.)
  • Dynamic and scalable estimation and inference in regression modelling
  • Methods for clustering high-dimensional data
  • Data-analytic pipelines and statistical software
  • Statistical applications
    (of the kind that require non-trivial modelling and can drive developments in methodology for the above topics and more generally)

The above list is in no way exhaustive and you are very welcome to suggest your own projects and ideas. I suggest you also take a look below at what the current PhD students in my group are working on.

Current PhD students and PostDoc researchers

The PhD students currently working with me are

Oliver Kemp 2022-
Patrick Zietkiewicz 2021-
Philipp Sterzinger 2021-

Oliver Kemp is working on methods for improving estimation in models with functional components.

Philipp Sterzinger is working on methods for improving prediction quality from statistical models.

Patrick Zietkiewicz is developing statistical methodology for model selection in high-dimensional, streaming settings.

Former PhD students and PostDoc researchers

Researchers that either completed their PhD or spend a significant part of their PhD working with me, and researchers who collaborated with me under post-doctoral appointments are

Aristeidis Panos 2020-2021 PostDoc (PostDoc at University of Cambridge)
Asma Saleh 2015-2021 PhD (Teaching Fellow at University of Warwick)
Petya Kindalova 2016-2021 PhD (Principal Statistician at GSK)
Zhenzheng Hu 2017-2021 PhD (Fixed income strategist at Goldman Sachs)
Zhongzhen Wang 2016-2021 PhD
Santhosh Narayanan 2016-2020 PhD (PostDoc at The Alan Turing Institute)
Alkeos Tsokos 2015-2019 PhD (Quantitative Resaercher at Gambit Research)
Thomas Bartlett 2016-2019 PostDoc (Assistant Professor at University College London)
Gavin Whitaker 2016-2018 PostDoc (Data Scientist at BDO)
Sophia Kyriakou 2014-2018 PhD (Scientific Collaborator - European University Cyprus)
Hannah Frick 2015-2017 PostDoc (Software engineer at RStudio)
Stylianos Kampakis 2012-2016 PhD (Freelance Data Scientist)
Claudia Di Caterina 2014-2015 visiting PhD (Assistant Professor at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Emmanouil Karimalis 2013-2014 visiting PhD (Rates Strategist at Barclays Investment Bank)

More information on supervision of PostDocs, PhD students, and BSc/MSc project students can be found in my CV.