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/...

After three days of welcome week activities, including course briefings, the international student welcome, and free pizza lunch, all our new students are meeting their Personal Tutor today, who will support them academically and pastorally throughout their degree.

Welcome Week is underway! 🎉 We’re delighted to welcome all our new students to the Department of Statistics and our home, the Mathematical Sciences Building (MSB). 👏 Throughout the week, you’ll meet your course leader, personal tutor, and fellow students, as well as enjoy a lot of fun activities!

Congratulations to Rocco Caprio, who successfully passed his PhD viva last month! He is now working in the department as a ProbAI Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Rocco’s research interests span computational statistics, applied probability, optimisation, and the mathematics of machine learning.

Dr Martine Barons, Reader in Statistics and Director of the Applied Statistics and Risk Unit in our department, has become 2025 World Champion in Powerlifting, Deadlift and Bench Press at the AWPC World Championship in Idaho Falls, USA! Congratulations, Martine!

Live Chat: Data Science, Maths and Stats and MORSE September 24th, 3:30 PM-4:00 PM Register here: meetandengage.com/un... An opportunity to talk to current staff and students about the Data Science, Mathematics and Statistics, MORSE programmes in Warwick!

Our own Professor Jane Hutton will be giving an interactive session “Lucy Letby – Serial Killer or Coincidence? Hypothesis Testing & The Legal System” on September 23rd, organised by Channel Talent. Suitable for pre-university students (16+) studying, or with a interest in, statistics, law and etc.

We are delighted to announce that Peng Yuan has successfully passed his PhD viva, with minor corrections, on the topic of Non-linear optimal stopping and games with Bermudan strategies. We would like to congratulate Peng on his fantastic achievement!

The winning team from the 2025 Solve for X training camp! The camp is part of the work of the Martingale Foundation. Students who receive funding from the Martingale Foundation for an M.Sc enjoy a four-day workshop during which they use mathematics to solve a real world problem.

PhD scholarship available: Unravelling the sound underground: Detecting and estimating earthworm abundance using low-frequency vibrations.

New paper: Rocco Caprio and Adam Johansen have had their work analysing the EM algorithm by using tools from functional analysis accepted by Biometrika: academic.oup.com/bio...

Registration is now open to attend the one-day workshop on “Statistical Challenges in the Agri-Environment Sector” organised jointly by the BIR (British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society) and NABES (UK Network of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statisticians).

New paper on multiple importance sampling from Felipe Medina-Aguayo and Richard Everitt "Annealing Strategies for Variance Reduction in Balance Heuristic Estimators" Features an extended-space representation for the balance heuristic, enabling incorporation of annealing steps https://rdcu.be/eqe8j

New paper: "Soft Reasoning: Navigating Solution Spaces in Large Language Models through Controlled Embedding Exploration". arxiv.org/abs/2505.2...

Undergraduate Lap Chow has won the PSI undergraduate prize for their dissertation. Lap developed a Bayesian model using viral sequencing data to improve age-specific HIV incidence estimates where testing records are censored, incomplete, or have low coverage. www.psiweb.org/membe...

New paper: "Asymptotically optimal Wasserstein couplings for the small-time stable domain of attraction" (J. González Cázares, David Kramer-Bang and Aleksandar Mijatović), to appear in Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré - Probabilités et Statistiques (2025). arxiv.org/abs/2411.0...

Do you have an excellent knowledge of statistics, and wish to try your hand at teaching? If so, you might be interested in applying to be a Tutor in the Warwick Statistics Department. This is a full time position for one year. Deadline 6th August. warwick-careers.tal....

Many congratulations to our students who are graduating today! Photographed are Statistics staff who participated in the procession.

The Department of Statistics is organising a webinar to introduce their three undergraduate degree programmes (Data Science, MORSE and Maths & Statistics). It will take place at 12pm-1pm London time on 1 August. Register: your.warwick.ac.uk/e...

Warwick Statistics is hosting the first Winter School in Probabilistic AI, 5-8 Jan 2026, targeted at PhD students, academics, and professionals; and features world-leading researchers speaking about recent advances in AI. www.probai.ac.uk/eve...