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Richard Samworth 
Summary
Richard John Samworth FRS[1] (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge,[2] and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. His main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density estimation and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.
Richard John Samworth | |
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| Born | May 1978 (age 45) |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Some mathematical and theoretical aspects of the bootstrap (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alastair Young |
Honours and awards edit
- Rustagi Memorial Lecture (2021), The Ohio State University[3]
- Fellow, Royal Society (2021 election)[1]
- The COPSS Presidents' Award 2018[4]
- IMS Medallion Lecture 2018 [5]
- The Adams Prize 2017[6]
- Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election)[7]
- Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust[8]
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election)[9]
- The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society[10]
- The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society[11]
Selected works edit
- Cannings, Timothy I.; Samworth, Richard J. (2017). "Random-projection ensemble classification". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology). 79 (4): 959–1035. arXiv:1504.04595. doi:10.1111/rssb.12228.
- Cule, Madeleine; Samworth, Richard; Stewart, Michael (2010). "Maximum likelihood estimation of a multi-dimensional log-concave density". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology). 72 (5): 545–607. arXiv:0804.3989. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00753.x. S2CID 1524045.
- Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038.
- Hall, Peter; Park, Byeong U.; Samworth, Richard J. (2008). "Choice of neighbor order in nearest-neighbor classification". The Annals of Statistics. 36 (5): 2135–2152. arXiv:0810.5276. doi:10.1214/07-AOS537.
References edit
- ^ a b "Professor Richard Samworth FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. 2021.
- ^ "Richard Samworth | Official web page at Cambridge". statslab.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- ^ "Rustagi Memorial Lecture | Department of Statistics".
- ^ "ASA Community".
- ^ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Medallion lecture previews: Richard Samworth, Thomas Mikosch".
- ^ "Adams Prize winners 2016–17 announced | Adams Prize".
- ^ "ASA Newsroom" (PDF).
- ^ http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/templates/asset-relay.cfm?frmAssetFileID=1733 [dead link]
- ^ "IMS Fellows 2014 « IMS Bulletin". bulletin.imstat.org. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- ^ "Account Suspended". rssenews.org.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- ^ "The Royal Statistical Society". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
External links edit
- Richard Samworth's home page at the University of Cambridge.