Edwin Fong, a DPhil student at the department who graduated in 2022, received the Savage Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for his DPhil thesis during his time at Oxford. His thesis was titled The predictive view of Bayesian inference, and he was supervised by Prof Chris Holmes.
Saifuddin Syed and Matteo Giordano both received honourable mentions.
Read more at Savage Award | International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
Professor Charlotte Deane elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Professor Charlotte Deane MBE, Professor of Structural Bioinformatics in Oxford’s Department of Statistics, has today been announced among the new Fellows of the Royal Society.
OpenBind releases first open dataset and AI model for drug discovery
The OpenBind consortium’s first release of experimental data marks a milestone in efforts to improve how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in drug discovery.
Oxford statisticians take part in PKU–Oxford conference on quantitative finance and data science
Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Department of Statistics were among those taking part in a joint conference with Peking University in April, bringing together academics working across quantitative finance, data science and related areas.