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Victor Elvira secures further US funding
Victor Elvira has been awarded further funding from the US Army Research Laboratory to investigate "State-space models and approximate probabilistic inference over networks". This is a 3-year project worth $150,000.
Amy Wilson awarded EPSRC IAA funding
Amy Wilson has been awarded an EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account award for her project "Statistical framework for the evaluation of gait evidence". This project will fund a secondment to FGA Services. Forensic gait analysis ...
Cecilia Balocchi wins the Savage Award
Cecilia Balocchi was announced as the 2021 Savage Award winner in Applied Methodology during the ISBA 2022 World Meeting in Montreal. The Savage Award is jointly awarded by the International Society of Bayesian Analysis and American ...
Ruth King Named IMS Fellow
Ruth King, Thomas Bayes' Chair of Statistics, University of Edinburgh, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Prof. King received the award for significant contributions to the analysis of ...
Simon Wood has provided evidence to the UK parliament on Covid statistics and modelling
Simon Wood has provided evidence on Covid statistics and modelling to the Science and Technology committee of the UK parliament https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/107375/pdf
Ruth King has been awarded the Royal Statistical Society Barnett Award
The Royal Statistical Society Barnett Award for 2022 is awarded to Ruth King, who is internationally known for her work in statistical ecology, and in particular bringing to prominence in this field, the use of Bayesian statistics. ...
Ruth King gave the 19th Rob Kempton memorial lecture at the BioSS Annual meeting
Ruth King gave the 19th Rob Kempton memorial lecture at the BioSS Annual Meeting on Monday 22nd November, with the title of her talk: "Statistical Ecology: The Sky's The Limit!?"
Sara Wade elected as a Board Member of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Congratulations to Sara Wade who has been elected as a Board Member of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) was founded in 1992 to promote the development ...
Miguel de Carvalho involved in the creation of the first International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science
Miguel de Carvalho has been involved in the creation of the first International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science - October 2022.
Miguel de Carvalho gave a keynote lecture in a leading celebration of European Statistics Day 2021
Miguel de Carvalho gave a keynote lecture in FENStatS (Federation of European National Statistical Societies) celebrations of European Statistics Day 2021.