DPhil student Arun Raja has been awarded the National University of Singapore (NUS) Development Grant Award, based on the recommendation of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, NUS, and will be accorded the title 'Young NUS Fellow'. This grant's purpose is to nurture high-calibre Singaporean talents for a career in academia by providing additional resources to support young academics early in their research career. Arun, a student in the Oxford Protein Informatics Group, works on developing geometric deep learning methods for molecular tasks in the drug discovery pipeline.
Applications for postgraduate study are now open for 2027–28 entry
Postgraduate study at Oxford Statistics offers the chance to work across a broad range of research, from statistical theory and methodology, probability and machine learning to applications in areas including genetics, epidemiology, computational biology, finance and the social sciences.
Tom Rainforth awarded full Professorial title
Tom Rainforth has been awarded the title of Professor of Statistics and, as of 1 September 2026, is also a Fellow of Jesus College.
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