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  • About OxWaSP
    • EPSRC & MRC Centre for Doctoral Training
    • Partners
    • Examples of Research Topics
  • The OxWaSP Programme
    • Training and Research Focus
    • Programme Outline
    • Course Handbook
    • Skills & Training
  • People
    • Supervisory Pool
    • 2014 Student Cohort
    • 2015 Student Cohort
    • 2016 Student Cohort
    • 2017 Student Cohort
    • 2018 Student Cohort
  • Events
    • Overview of Course Events
    • Workshop 2015
    • Workshop 2016
    • Workshop 2017
  • Contact Us

Examples of Research Topics

Dr Julia Brettschneider
  • High-dimensional quality assessment and control for free-form objects in 3D printing/additive layer manufacturing
  • Preprocessing of biological time series invoking a priori known information

Professor Bärbel Finkenstädt Rand
  • Non-stationary spectral analysis of high frequency biomarker data for chronotherapy
  • Modelling and Inference for gene regulatory networks
  • Spatio-temporal modelling of gene expression

Professor David Firth
  • Fast, accurate and reliable calibration of statistical models with massive     datasets (uses ideas from differential geometry, numerical analysis and sampling theory)
  • Approximate conditional inference with large-scale data streams (a blend of statistical theory and computational statistics)
  • Longitudinal bibliometrics: Statistical modelling of the "careers" of published research articles, based on historical citation data (statistical modelling coupled with large-scale data management and analysis)

Professor Jotun Hein
  • Models of Evolution
  • Origins of Life
  • Population Genetics

Professor Jane Hutton
  • Effective models for seizure rates to assess genetic predisposition to response or resistance to pharmacological treatments
  • Informative unit and item non-response in longitudinal studies

Dr Adam Johansen
  • Sequential Monte Carlo for Large Models: Divide and Conquer Approaches
  • Computational Strategies for Spatial Mixture Modelling with Application to Neuroimaging Data

 Professor Wilfrid Kendall
  • X-ray transforms and statistical geometry for additive layer manufacturing

Professor Chenlei Leng
  • Large-scale inference
  • Interface between computational scalability and statistical optimality
  • Statistics of networks

Professor Jonathan Marchini
  • Neuroimaging genetics : Bayesian methods development for genetic association with high dimensional imaging phenotypes
  • Statistical genetics methodology for large-scale sequencing and genotyping projects

Professor Thomas Nichols
  • Neuromaging Genetics (Big Data Squared): Building sensitive models for genetic association with a high dimensional imaging phenotypes
  • Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis: Joint modelling of massive volume and point-valued imaging datasets

Professor Gesine Reinert
  • Probabilistic and statistical methods for network analysis
  • Stein's method and the quantification of approximations


Professor Gareth Roberts
  • Adaptive MCMC for high-dimensional Monte Carlo
  • Pseudo-marginal MCMC using epsilon strong simulation

Professor Jim Smith
  • Dynamic graphical models on evolving domains
  • Tree models for system discovery in high dimensional domains

Dr Dario Spanò
  • Time-dependent cluster and feature models - probabilist and statistical aspects 

Dr Simon Spencer
  • Validation for network inference
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  • About OxWaSP
    • EPSRC & MRC Centre for Doctoral Training
    • Partners
    • Examples of Research Topics
  • The OxWaSP Programme
    • Training and Research Focus
    • Programme Outline
    • Course Handbook
    • Skills & Training
  • People
    • Supervisory Pool
    • 2014 Student Cohort
    • 2015 Student Cohort
    • 2016 Student Cohort
    • 2017 Student Cohort
    • 2018 Student Cohort
  • Events
    • Overview of Course Events
    • Workshop 2015
    • Workshop 2016
    • Workshop 2017
  • Contact Us