Professor Chris Holmes, The Alan Turing Institute’s Programme Director for Health and Medical Science, and Professor of Biostatistics in Genomics at the Department of Statistics and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, will co-lead a new Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Lab.
This will be a transparent, independent, research group working through collaboration between the national Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC), The Alan Turing Institute, and the Royal Statistical Society – focussed on areas of national priority. Further information can be found here.
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