The Board of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has appointed Professor Sir Bernard Silverman, statistician, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office (2010-2017) and now part-time Professor of Modern Slavery Statistics, University of Nottingham to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
To read more about this please visit this page: https://esrc.ukri.org/news-events-and-publications/news/news-items/new-appointments-to-esrc-council2/.
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.