Žarko Bulić

DPhil in Statistics student

About Me

I am a first year PhD student in the probability group supervised by Alison Etheridge and Maria Bruna. My current research focuses on characterising phase transitions of interacting particle systems using tools from information geometry.

The particle systems I work with arise from mathematical models of population genetics and active matter. 

I completed my undergraduate studies in mathematics and economics at École Polytechnique. After that, I did Part III of the mathematical tripos at Cambridge and the second year of the Probability and Random models masters in Paris (Sorbonne / ENS). My undergraduate thesis was on topological data analysis, and my master's thesis was on information quantities of interacting particle systems. I also wrote a Part III essay on critical exponents for planar percolation.

My work is supported by the Clarendon Scholarship and the Keble Sloane Robinson Scholarship.

Teaching:

  • Probability on graphs and lattices (MT25): TA
  • Applied probability (HT26): TA & Tutor

 

Research Interests

  • Probabilistic modeling in population genetics
  • Active matter
  • Information theory
  • Interacting particle systems and their scaling limits

Besides the projects that I am working on for my PhD, I have a long-standing interest in econometrics and probabilistic methods in machine learning.

Contact Details

Email: zarko.bulic@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: 3.04

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