๐ข Applications for the Summer Research Experience at Warwick Statistics is now open!
The Summer Research Experience (SRE) is an 8 week programme taking place in July and August for students not currently at Warwick.
The cover letter needs to show two things:
Your motivations for applying to the role.
Using examples, how you meet the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the job description.
It's often helpful to address each criterion in turn.
No other documents are needed.
Congratulations to Jenning Lim on a successful defence of his thesis, "Particle Algorithms for Inference of Probabilistic
Models" today, a well deserved success! And thanks to @chris-nemeth.bsky.social and Theo Damoulas for acting as examiners.
Congratulations to Fernando Zepeda on their viva today at @warwickstats.bsky.social; I spent a very enjoyable afternoon with @louisaslett.bsky.social discussing Fernando's thesis, "Non-Reversible Extensions of the ALPS Methodology for Multimodal and Transdimensional Sampling".
๐ฅ WANTED: Student Researcher to join me, @vdebortoli.bsky.social, Jiaxin Shi, Kevin Li and @arthurgretton.bsky.social in DeepMind London.
You'll be working on Multimodal Diffusions for science. Apply here google.com/about/career...
Two assistant prof. vacancies at Warwick Statistics: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre... (deadline 25 January 2025 at 11:55pm). CSML applications very welcome!
Dr. Shishen Lin has joined us as a Research Fellow on the ERC Synergy OCEAN project from September. His research is in learning in games, black-box optimisation and evolutionary algorithms. He is also interested in reinforcement learning and its combination with evolutionary computation methods.
Postdoc, Newcastle University (UK).
PINCODE researches Monte Carlo Fusion methods: this postdoc will help developing #rstats packages that bring this methodological work to life, as well as opportunities to contribute to further methodological development.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ807/r...
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the RSS CSML will take place on 2 December, 12:00โ13:00 (UK time) via Zoom. The meeting is open to all and will review the sectionโs activities from the past year, outline plans for the year ahead, and present the committee for 2026.
Applications are invited for Chapman Fellow in Mathematics (Statistics Section) at the Department of Mathematics.
Closing date: 11 November 2025
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs//search...
Thinking about doing a PhD in statistics, probability or mathematical finance? Want to learn more about doctoral training at Warwick Statistics? Register now for our upcoming PhD Open Days. Find more information and book your place here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...
We are hiring!
We are inviting applications for the Chapman Fellowship inย Statistics at Imperial College London.
This is a kind of super-postdoc: 3 years contract, excellent working conditions, and candidates are expected to propose an independent research plan.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs//search...
Congratulations to Rocco Caprio -- thesis defended, minor corrections done and graduation imminent. Thanks to Gareth Roberts and Andrew Duncan for examining the thesis. Rocco is now a Prob-AI-funded research fellow warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/stat... and I look forward to seeing what comes next.
There are a couple of vacancies in Wollongong for Maths/Stats lecturers:
www.uow.edu.au/about/jobs/j...
Some fun news: We're hiring!
Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol.
Closing date 13 October 2025; link below!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09/09#rcppsmc_0.2.9 describing release 0.2.9 of CRAN package RcppSMC
RcppSMC 0.2.9 on CRAN: Maintenance
Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filters for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09...
#rstats #rcpp
An announcement, which might be of some interest:
In the period 2022-2024, myself and a number of other postdocs on the "CoSInES" and "Bayes4Health" EPSRC grants were involved in organising a number of internal tutorial workshops, on topics relevant to researchers in computational statistics.
Rocco explains this work, among other things, about 90 minutes in to the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrPy49eAe9o](recording of the recent RSS Workshop of Gradient Flows).
As evidence that this prediction wasn't too bad, [https://academic.oup.com/biomet/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biomet/asaf061/8223075](Rocco's second paper), showing the fast convergence of the venerable EM algorithm using a rather fun functional analysis argument, is in press for Biometrika.
Applications are still open for another two weeks.
If anyone is, or knows anyone who is, looking for a postdoc position to work on the foundations of scalable inference and such... applications for a postdoctoral position at Warwick as a part of the OCEAN project (oceanerc.com) are open until 20th August at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre....
New work on inference for partially observed (hypoelliptic) SDEs in frequentist/Bayesian regimes.
Splitting schemes & controlled SMC (+ bridges) to recover the (pseudo)likelihood of interest
arxiv.org/abs/2507.14535
Work led by Shu, with @adamjohansen.bsky.social and @bayesianstats.bsky.social
Second blog post about nested sampling: numerical experiments;
https://statisfaction-blog.github.io/posts/30-06-2025-nested-sampling-experiments/
Shunichi Amari has been awarded the 40th (2025) Kyoto Prize in recognition of his pioneering research in the fields of artificial neural networks, machine learning, and information geometry
www.riken.jp/pr/news/2025...
We are recruiting! A three-year postdoctoral position at Warwick as part of the โProbabilistic Artificial Intelligenceโ hub on the mathematical foundations of AI. Further details at the link: warwick-careers.tal....
๐ฅณ Congratulations are in order for:
our newly promoted professors
FX
Robin
Paul
Terry
as well as for our newly promoted Associated Professors
Tom H
Alex D
Takoua
Emma
Brieuc
Post blog on an attempt of giving a simple introduction to NS (nested sampling), and NS-SMC (SMC samplers based on NS):
https://statisfaction-blog.github.io/posts/04-06-2025-simpler-nested-sampling-identity/nested.html
I'm sure this will be the first of many.
๐จ New paper: โTowards Adaptive Self-Normalized ISโ, @ IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop.
TLDR;
To estimate ยต = E_p[f(ฮธ)] with SNIS, instead of doing MCMC on p(ฮธ) or learning a parametric q(ฮธ), we try MCMC directly on p(ฮธ)| f(ฮธ)-ยต | (variance-minimizing proposal).
arxiv.org/abs/2505.00372
Announcing our 2025/26 William Guy Lecturers ๐ข
Focusing on "Statistics and AI," these talks will inspire students about the role of statistics in our tech-driven world.
๐ Read more: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
