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Richard John Samworth | |
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| Born | May 1978 (age 48) |
| 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) |
| Alastair Young | |
Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is a British statistician who is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge,[1] 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.
Honours and awards
[edit]- The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society[2]
- The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society[3]
- Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust[4]
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election)[5]
- Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election)[6]
- The Adams Prize 2017[7]
- The COPSS Presidents' Award 2018[8]
- IMS Medallion Lecture 2018[9]
- Rustagi Memorial Lecture 2021, The Ohio State University[10]
- Fellow, Royal Society (2021 election)[11]
- Arthur Cohen Award & Lecture 2024, Rutgers University[12]
- IMS Grace Wahba Award & Lecture 2025[13]
- The Guy Medal in Silver 2025, Royal Statistical Society[14]
- David Cox Medal 2025[15]
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]- ↑ "Richard Samworth | Official web page at Cambridge". statslab.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- ↑ "The Royal Statistical Society". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ↑ Royal Statistical Society. "Previous recipients of society awards (2022)" (PDF). RSS. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "ASA Newsroom" (PDF).
- ↑ "Adams Prize winners 2016–17 announced | Adams Prize".
- ↑ "ASA Community".
- ↑ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Medallion lecture previews: Richard Samworth, Thomas Mikosch".
- ↑ "Rustagi Memorial Lecture | Department of Statistics".
- ↑ "Professor Richard Samworth FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. 2021.
- ↑ "Conference announcement". Arthur Cohen Award & Lecture. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
- ↑ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Honored Special Awards & Lecturers Recipient List". Retrieved 13 May 2025.
- ↑ "Announcing our Honours recipients and Honorary Fellows for 2025". The Royal Statistical Society. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ↑ "David Cox Medal". RSS. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
External links
[edit]- Richard Samworth's home page at the University of Cambridge.
Categories:
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- English statisticians
- Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
- Cambridge mathematicians
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Living people
- 1978 births
- Professors of the University of Cambridge
- Annals of Statistics editors
- British mathematical statisticians
- 21st-century statisticians