🎉 Professor Giuseppe Cannizzaro has won the Rollo Davidson Prize for 2026, in recognition of his great advances in our understanding of scaling-critical two-dimensional stochastic systems! The announcement post: www.statslab.cam.ac.....

📅 Bookings for the Undergraduate Open days are now open! 🔗 Register here: warwick.ac.uk/study/... We are holding the following talk sessions on 20 June and 27 June for our three undergraduate courses: Data Science, Mathematics and Statistics, and MORSE!

Our PhD student David Huk will be at ICLR 2026 presenting his work on designing and using powerful copulas for dependence models! Learn more: tinyurl.com/5xhce2me. 👉 Diffusion and Flow-based Copulas: Forgetting and Remembering Dependencies. Friday April 24th, Poster Session 4, Pavilion 3 # 207

Our departmental conference returns this year and will take place on the Warwick campus from 22-23 April 2026 (tomorrow and Thursday). We would like to thank G-Research for their kind support!

We are delighted to announce the upcoming one-day workshop "Recent Advances in Stochastic Analysis and Control" on 1st May 2026 at Warwick Statistics. Registration (free of charge) deadline: 27th April or when capacity reached.

📣 We’re hiring! 📖 Interested in joining the teaching and learning team in a world-leading Statistics department and helping deliver high-quality statistics education? We have multiple openings: 👉 Teaching Fellow (x2) 👉 Tutor (x4) 📅 Application deadline: 23rd April 2026

The Annual Actuarial Student Lecture is taking place tomorrow. This year, the title of the event is “Professional Competencies in Mathematical Sciences - the case of Actuarial Science". The event is sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Actuaries. Join us from 6pm tomorrow in L5!

Join us for the Annual Actuarial Student Lecture next Tuesday! Title: Professional Competencies in Mathematical Sciences - the case of Actuarial Science

📢 Applications for the Summer Research Experience at Warwick Statistics is now open! The Summer Research Experience (SRE) is an 8 week programme taking place in July and August for students not currently at Warwick.

🎉 Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧 Wishing all our students, staff, alumni, and friends a joyful and prosperous Chinese New Year. May the Year of the Horse bring energy, success, and exciting new opportunities to everyone associated with Warwick Statistics! ✨ 新年快乐，马到成功 🐎

Yesterday afternoon, we hosted the third and final event in this year’s Flagship Careers Series: Medical Statistics and Health Data Science.

Professor Gareth Roberts will deliver this year’s P. C. Mahalanobis Lectures, presenting six talks between 13-23 February at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi, Kolkata, and Bangalore. Information about the P.C. Mahalanobis Lectures 2025-26: www.isibang.ac.in/~s....

Another exciting workshop to be held at Warwick Statistics this coming June: The ProbAI Theory of Scaling Laws Workshop from 22-24 June! Website of the workshop: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc... Registration open until 31 March on a first-come-first-serve basis: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc....

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Andreas Kyprianou on his appointment as a Founding Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences!🎉

Last Wednesday, we celebrated our newest graduation cohort. Congratulations to our prize winners and indeed all our graduates — we are so proud of you! We hope you will stay in touch and remain part of our Warwick Statistics family as alumni. 💜

Congratulations to our Statistics graduates graduating today 🎓 Enjoy the day, and from everyone in the department, best wishes for the future!

📰 Our Statistical Advisory Clinic is back for Term 2!! 🎉 We are happy to announce that the Statistical Advisory Clinic has been awarded the Digital, Data Science, and AI (DDSAI) Spotlight’s Small Grant Scheme at Warwick!

Our first CRiSM colloquium of the year will be given by Daniela Witten, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of Washington. Daniela is a recipient of the COPSS Presidents’ Award in 2022. Join us from 2–3pm on Tuesday, 27 January!

Today marks the start of Term 2 of the 2025/26 academic year, and we are delighted to welcome all our students back to the department. We wish everyone sitting January exams the very best and hope you all have a great start to the new term.

As we sign off for 2025, we would like to thank all our staff, students and alumni for another successful year at Warwick Statistics. Thank you to everyone who has followed the news and updates from our department throughout the year. We wish you all a very happy Christmas and see you again in 2026!

Ollie Kemp successfully passed his PhD viva last week! The PhD thesis is titled 'Reducing estimation bias in challenging modelling settings'. Ollie is supervised by Prof. Ioannis Kosmidis. On behalf of the entire department, we would like to congratulate Ollie on this fantastic achievement!!

Today marks the end of Term 1. Well done to all our students who have worked hard over the past ten weeks — through lectures, tutorials, assignments, and etc. We wish everyone a happy Christmas break and look forward to welcoming you back in the New Year!

🎉 Many congratulations to Sanket Agrawal, who passed his PhD viva last month! Sanket has research interests in topics in probability and stochastic processes, with a focus on the stability and convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms.

🤔 Thinking about doing a PhD in statistics, probability or mathematical finance? 🎓 Want to join a world-class doctoral programme? Here at the Warwick Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Statistics, we offer 10+ fully funded PhD studentships to talented applicants from around the globe.

Week 10 is upon us, and that can mean only one thing — our End of Term Celebration! Come along tomorrow for a fun quiz, free lunch, cakes, and hot chocolate, and take a moment to relax with your friends, peers, and colleagues. All ST students and staff are welcome!

Congratulations to Harry Giles, who passed his PhD viva last month! His thesis is titled “Fluctuations, Diffusivity, and Superdiffusivity in Statistical Mechanics.” Everyone in the department wishes him all the best for his next venture.

The registration for the LMS Research Summer School in Robust Statistics and Reliable Learning Algorithms to be held next summer at Warwick is still open!! It's suitable for PhD students of all years and early-career researchers. 🔗 Registration (deadline: 7 December 2025): warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Professor Jim Smith from our department is part of this exciting AiTASHA project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). AiTASHA stands for AI Intelligence Triage & Acquisition Support for Human-centred Analysis. Check out what Jim said about the project below.

🎉 Earlier this month, Guglielmo Gattiglio successfully passed his PhD viva! His PhD thesis is titled "Scalability and Uncertainty Quantification for Parallel-in-Time Differential Equation Solvers". Many congratulations Guglielmo! 🔗 Link to Guglielmo's homepage: guglielmogattiglio.com/.

Keen to participate in the Dual Trimester Program "Geometric Statistics: theory, application, and computation" at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics in Bonn in Autumn 2026? Applications are still open! Find all information and the application platform here: www.mathematics.uni-....

We are hiring! We are recruiting two Assistant Professors. The closing date is 25 January 2026. More information here 🔗: warwick-careers.tal.....

The Department of Statistics at Warwick is holding an MSc Online Open Day for prospective master’s students on Monday, 24th November, at 10am (UK time). Find more information and register here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

🎉 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.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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

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!

There's not long to go until our next on-campus Open Days and we are looking forward to showing you everything that Warwick has to offer. Join us on our upcoming Open Days: Saturday 11 October, Saturday 25 October. Book your place here: warwick.ac.uk/study/...