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- |
Oliver Kemp is working on methods for improving estimation in models with functional components.
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
| Patrick Zietkiewicz | 2021-2024 | PhD | |
| Philipp Sterzinger | 2021-2024 | PhD | (LSE Fellow in Statistics, LSE) |
| Aristeidis Panos | 2020-2021 | PostDoc | (Research Associate, University of Cambridge) |
| Asma Saleh | 2015-2021 | PhD | (Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Psychiatry, UCL) |
| Petya Kindalova | 2016-2021 | PhD | (Principal Statistician, GSK) |
| Zhenzheng Hu | 2017-2021 | PhD | (Fixed income strategist, Goldman Sachs) |
| Zhongzhen Wang | 2016-2021 | PhD | (Investment Associate, The USS Investment Mangement Limited) |
| Santhosh Narayanan | 2016-2020 | PhD | (Founder of PredPointAnalytics) |
| Alkeos Tsokos | 2015-2019 | PhD | (Quantitative Resaercher, Gambit Research) |
| Thomas Bartlett | 2016-2019 | PostDoc | (Department of Statistics, UCL) |
| Gavin Whitaker | 2016-2018 | PostDoc | (Quantitative Analyst, Smartodds) |
| Sophia Kyriakou | 2014-2018 | PhD | (Scientific Collaborator, European University Cyprus) |
| Hannah Frick | 2015-2017 | PostDoc | (Software engineer, Posit) |
| Stylianos Kampakis | 2012-2016 | PhD | (Freelance Data Scientist) |
| Claudia Di Caterina | 2014-2015 | visiting PhD | (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Verona) |
| Emmanouil Karimalis | 2013-2014 | visiting PhD | (Macro Rates Strategist / Director, UBS Investment Bank) |
More information on supervision of PostDocs, PhD students, and BSc/MSc project students can be found in my CV.