Statistics and Data Science

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The research of our group focuses on the mathematical aspects of Data Science, and aims to tackle challenges arising in this interdisciplinary field by drawing on methods and theories from Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Science and their related areas.

The members of our group work on a vast variety of inter-connected topics, including Applied Probability, Econometrics, Machine Learning, Medical Statistics, Non-parametric Statistics, Numerical Analysis, Optimisation, Statistical Decision Theory, and Uncertainty Quantification. The specific research interests of our group members are listed below.

The Data Science group hosts a weekly Data Science and Computational Statistics seminar series.

The group benefits from the University of Birmingham's membership of the The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, and interacts closely with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI.

Head of Data Science Group

Professor Jinglai Li

Professor Jinglai Li

Professor
Head of Statistics and Data Science

Dr Li has research interests in scientific computing, computational statistics and uncertainty quantification.

Academic Staff

Dr Biman Chakraborty

Lecturer

Biman Chakraborty is a Lecturer in Statistics. He has published several research papers in premier International Statistics journals as well as reviews and book chapters in nonparametric multivariate statistics, statistical computing and statistical reliability. He acts as reviewer to many International journals regularly. He also received many research grants from various agencies in his career.

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Dr Hong Duong

Dr Hong Duong

Associate Professor

Dr Duong's research interests lie in the intersections of analysis and applied probability. Most of his research is inspired from applications in molecular dynamics, material sciences and biological systems.

Dr Jiahua Jiang

Dr Jiahua Jiang

Assistant Professor

Dr Jiang's research interests are: inverse problems and imaging; model order reduction; uncertainty quantification.

Dr Hui Li

Dr Hui Li

Reader in Statistics and Econometrics

Dr Li works in environmental and natural resource economics, and applied econometrics.

Dr Arnaud Lionnet

Dr Arnaud Lionnet

Lecturer

Dr Lionnet's research interests span theoretical and numerical analysis of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs), probabilistic numerical methods for PDEs, and systemic risk in financial networks.

Dr Matthias Sachs

Dr Matthias Sachs

Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Dr Sachs's research interests are in numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations; computational statistics, the design and analysis of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; machine learning methods for molecular systems/dynamics.

Dr Xiaocheng Shang

Dr Xiaocheng Shang

Associate Professor in Mathematical Optimisation and Data Science

Dr Shang's primary research interests lie in the optimal design of numerical methods for stochastic differential equations with a strong emphasis on applications ranging from computational mathematics, statistics, physics, to data science.

Dr Jia Shao

Dr Jia Shao

Assistant Professor

Dr Shao's principal research interests are in the intersection of financial and actuarial mathematics: quantitative analysis of Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS), Extreme Value Theory (EVT) and heavy-tailed distributions, with an emphasis on pricing catastrophe risk (CAT) bonds, nuclear power-linked securities and applications.

Dr Jiajing Sun

Dr Jiajing Sun

Associate Professor in Econometrics and Statistics

Dr Sun's research interests incorporate statistics and econometrics, their application in finance and economics, etc. She has published in reputable journals such as the Journal of Time Series Analysis, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Economics Letters, Journal of Environmental Management, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, etc., and has an emerging record of strong publication.

Dr Junqi (Billy) Tang

Dr Junqi (Billy) Tang

Assistant Professor

Dr Tang's research interests include large-scale optimisation, statistical learning theory, and applications in computer vision and medical imaging.

Dr Panayiota Touloupou

Dr Panayiota Touloupou

Associate Professor in Mathematics and Statistics

Dr Touloupou's research is concerned with mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and the development of novel statistical methods needed for model fitting and model selection.

Dr Yi Zhang

Dr Yi Zhang

Associate Professor

Dr Zhang's research lies in Markov Decision Processes and Stochastic Games, Markov Chains and Pure Jump Processes, Statistical Decision Theory and Sequential Analysis, and applications to e.g., Impulse Control Problems and Telecommunication.

Research and Teaching Fellows

Mr Joseph Marsh

Mr Joseph Marsh

Research Fellow

Mr Marsh's research interests cover inference for stochastic epidemic models, Bayesian computation, Markov chain Monte Carlo methodologies and data augmentation techniques, and inference for complex high dimensional genetic data.

PhD Students

Note that not all PhD researchers have requested profiles.

Affiliated Academic Staff