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Statistical expertise in drug discovery
A freely-available suite of statistical tools developed at the University of Oxford is providing major companies with valuable tools for drug discovery.
Queen's Birthday Honours: Professor Charlotte Deane receives MBE
Professor Charlotte Deane receives MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
Research from the Mathematical Institute and the Department of Statistics in Oxford was submitted together under Unit of Assessment 10. Overall, 78% of our submission was judged to be 4* (the highest score available, for research quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance, and rigour) in REF 2021.
Predicting human displacement post disaster
Using statistics to harness datasets and sources to validate risks and decision models for the humanitarian sector.
Predicting Proteins in Three Dimensions
Professor Charlotte Deane and her team re-evaluated FREAD, a database search program and loop-modelling algorithm, and developed this into a new program, pyFREAD.
Oxford Statistics research student takes BRONZE for mathematical display in Parliament
Desi Ivanova, a DPhil student at the Department of Statistics, was awarded Bronze at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of her mathematical research, walking away with a £750 prize.
UNIQ+ AI/ML Internships now open for 2022 applications
Paid research internships in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be available this summer through UNIQ+, Oxford's flagship graduate access programme.
STEM for Britain 2022 Finalists
We are delighted that two Oxford Statistics research students have been selected as finalists for STEM for Britain 2022 in the Mathematical Sciences category.
Sir David Cox, 1924 - 2022
We received the news of the loss of Sir David Cox on 18 January 2022 with great sadness.