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Her current work introduces 'prequential posteriors' as a likelihood-free approach for data assimilation. She will travel to Seville to present her work at ICSDS 2025 in December.
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👏 Congratulations, Shreya!

🎉 Shreya Sinha Roy, a fourth-year PhD student in our department, has recently been announced as one of the 21 recipients of the IMS 2025 ICSDS Student Travel Award. Shreya has research interests in computational statistics, sampling methods, and reinforcement learning.

Her thesis, “Variants of the Contact Process: Interface and Growth,” explores interacting particle systems, focusing on variants of the contact process — a mathematical model used to describe population dynamics. Many congratulations to Isabella on this outstanding achievement!

Isabella Gonçalves de Alvarenga has successfully completed her PhD viva last week!

Dr. Shishen Lin has joined us as a Research Fellow on the ERC Synergy OCEAN project from September. His research is in learning in games, black-box optimisation and evolutionary algorithms. He is also interested in reinforcement learning and its combination with evolutionary computation methods.

A huge thank-you to all our speakers for their commitment, insight, and enthusiasm; and to our students for engaging so proactively. We would also like to extend our thanks to the Warwick Alumni team, Ester De Perlaky and Charlie Hattersley, for their incredible support.

We were also thrilled to welcome two experienced specialists in the Actuarial sector — Amy Zhang (PwC) and Gulfraz Ahmed (Phoenix Group soon Standard Life lpc), who brought further depth and real-world perspective to the day.

We kicked off with an inspiring and engaging keynote by Stuart R. McDonald, MBE.

Students then joined interactive breakout sessions, where our early-career alumni shared practical tips for applications and interviews and offered honest reflections on their first years in the industry.

This event marks the launch of an exciting new series of Careers Events dedicated to supporting our statistics students, featuring exclusively our very own Statistics alumni from the University of Warwick.

Last Wednesday we were delighted to host our brand-new Alumni-focussed Actuarial Careers Event!

With a fantastic line-up of actuarial alumni speakers the event was a huge success and our students were treated to a super series of talks from speakers at different stages of their career.

Her current projects involve radioactive gas generation and transport in proton therapy delivery systems. Welcome to the department, Maria!

Dr. Maria Perez Lara has joined the department as a Research Fellow and as a member of the MaThRad project. Her research consists of the physical validation of mathematical models for particle transport in particle therapy, using a Monte Carlo simulation toolkit developed for high-energy physics.

The first instantiation of their framework focuses on direct density estimation, while the second specialises in expedient sampling. Their two new methods achieve state of the art results in copula modelling, scaling to 1000+ dimensional distributions.

New paper by David Huk and Theo Damoulas! They model copulas based on the principles of diffusions and flows through processes that preserve marginal distributions but forget the dependence. Link to the paper 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.1....

The aims are to develop statistical methodology and theory for modern data science problems arising from semi-supervised learning, missing data, differential privacy, causal inference and distributed learning, with a focus on robust methods for nonparametric and high-dimensional settings.

Dr. Tom Berrett is advertising two post-doctoral research associate positions for his ERC grant "HeDiStat: Statistical theory and methodology for the combination of heterogeneous and distributed data". Closing date 14th December 2025. Apply here: warwick-careers.tal.....

Dr Kevin Huang has joined us as a Research Fellow affiliated with the Prob_AI Hub from September. Kevin studies the theory of neural networks and stochastic optimisation, with tools from high-dimensional statistics and random matrix theory. He also works on AI for physics algorithms as applications.

Dr Gengyu Xue is currently working in the department as a Research Fellow affiliated with the DASS programme, having recently completed her PhD here. Her research interests include differential privacy, algorithmic fairness and change point analysis. She won the ICSDS Student Travel Award last year.

The Applied Statistics & Risk Unit (AS&RU) in the Department of Statistics at Warwick works with industry, government, and non-government organisations to open up new research avenues and enable the early applications of theoretical, methodological, and algorithmic developments.

Today is World Statistics Day! The UN first celebrated this day back on 20 October 2010, marking it every five years. This year’s theme, “Driving change with quality statistics and data for everyone,” highlights how reliable data underpin progress globally and in daily life.

We are running the Statistical Advisory Clinics! PhD students in our department are offering free consulting on statistics related questions to all Warwick PhD students. Our expertise covers the whole spectrum of probability and statistics! Check it out here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

We are excited to have David Martinez del Rio joining us this year as a tutor. He earned a Physics degree at UNAM (2005), MSc in Maths (2012) and PhD (2019). He held two fellowships at Warwick’s Institute of Mathematics and tutored in Statistics in 2022-23. He is tutoring ST120 and ST229 this term.

Previously at Bath, he also worked as a GTA tutor and teaching fellow with the MASH service, both fuelling his desire to work in a teaching and learning environment post-PhD. He is also keen to support students with linear statistical modelling.

Dan Miles is joining the department as a Tutor this year. He recently obtained a PhD in Statistics from the University of Bath, having developed upon LASSO methods for suitable estimation on a novel covariate-influenced multivariate data setup. He is tutoring the first-year module ST118 this term.

We are looking for a researcher with a strong track record and outstanding promise in Mathematical Finance. The successful candidate will also be expected to deliver excellent teaching and student project supervision in Mathematical Finance, Probability, Statistics and related areas.

We are hiring!

We are recruiting an Assistant Professor (Mathematical Finance). The closing date is 23 November 2025. More information here: warwick-careers.tal.....

Keynote talks were delivered by Prof. Caroline Brophy (Trinity College Dublin) and Dr. Nick Schurch (BioSS). Lively discussions took place throughout the day on topics such as big data and small samples statistics, statistical privacy, and the use of AI tools in environmental monitoring.

On September 19th, Warwick Statistics hosted the 'Statistical Challenges in the Agri-Environment Sector' workshop, jointly organised by BIR and NABES. The event gathered 25 academics & professional statisticians for talks, posters and discussions on modern issues in agri-environment statistics.

Thinking about doing a PhD in statistics, probability or mathematical finance? Want to learn more about doctoral training at Warwick Statistics? Register now for our upcoming PhD Open Days. Find more information and book your place here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Today marks the start of term! Best of luck to our new students attending their first lectures, and welcome back to everyone returning!