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Award-winning presentations from Isabella Deutsch and Torben Sell
Congratulations to Isabella Deutsch and Torben Sell for their recent award winning presentations at recent ISBA (International Society of Bayesian Inference) conferences. At the 2022 ISBA World Meeting in Montreal Isabella was ...
Victor Elvira awarded an ARL Grant
Victor Elvira has been awarded an ARL grant, by the Network Science and Intelligent Systems Division, to research "State-space models and approximate probabilistic inference over networks.". The project focuses on dynamical ...
Ruth King and Simon Wood to speak at Royal Statistical Society International Conference
Ruth King (Barnett Lecture) and Simon Wood are both keynote speakers at the Royal Statistical Society International Conference 2022 to be held in Aberdeen in September 2022. Ruth will also receive the Barnett Award at the conference. Conference ...
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!?"