DPhil student Arun Raja has been awarded the National University of Singapore (NUS) Development Grant Award, based on the recommendation of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, NUS, and will be accorded the title 'Young NUS Fellow'. This grant's purpose is to nurture high-calibre Singaporean talents for a career in academia by providing additional resources to support young academics early in their research career. Arun, a student in the Oxford Protein Informatics Group, works on developing geometric deep learning methods for molecular tasks in the drug discovery pipeline.
What does a statistician do for the England football team?
From squad selection to modelling how footballs behave at altitude, statistician Matt Penn explains how data is helping shape the modern game, and why coaches will always matter more than the numbers.
New evidence suggests vast hidden magma systems inside Mars
Researchers from the Departments of Earth Science and Statistics have found evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems deep below its surface – even though the planet lacks the plate tectonics long considered essential for this kind of geological complexity. The findings open up new possibilities for how rocky planets become habitable.
Finding a needle in the genomic haystack: Targeting rare genes using statistical outliers
In statistical modelling, extreme outliers are often written off as 'noise'. But a new study by researchers from Oxford's Department of Statistics and Big Data Institute published this week in The American Journal of Human Genetics reverses that principle, using these outliers as the basis of a targeting system for locating rare, high-impact genetic mutations.