Our Cohort 4 Compass students have confirmed their PhD projects for the next 3 years and are establishing the direction of their own research within the CDT.
Supervised by the Institute for Statistical Science:
Qi Chen: Methodology for inferring directed graphs representing generative processes Supervised by Dan Lawson
Emma Ceccherini: Covariate Information for Dynamic Network Embedding. Supervised by Ian Gallagher & Dan Lawson
Henry Bourne: Investigating the Effect of Latent Representations on Continual Learning Performance. Supervised by Rihuan Ke
Rachel Wood: Comparing qualitatively different data at scale. Supervised by Dan Lawson
Dylan Dijk: Robust estimation and inference for high-dimensional time series. Supervised by Haeran Cho
Rahil Morjaria: New Directions in Group Testing. Supervised by Sid Jaggi
Xinrui Shi: Collective decision making in distributed systems. Supervised by Ayalvadi Ganesh
The following projects are supervised in collaboration with the Institute for Statistical Science (IfSS) and our other internal partners at the University of Bristol:
Codie Wood: Misclassification in binary and categorical variables: development of methods and software for epidemiology. Supervised by Kate Tilling & Rachael Hughes from Bristol Medical School (Population Health Science). Plus Jonathan Bartlett (London School Hygiene Tropical Medicine)
Ben Anson: Graph deep kernel machines. Supervised by Laurence Aitchison (Department of Computer Science)
Sam Bowyer: Fast and correct Bayesian inference with massively parallel methods. Supervised by Laurence Aitchison (Department of Computer Science)
Sam Perren: Validity of population adjustment methods for disconnected networks of evidence. Supervised by Nicky Welton, David Phillippo & Hugo Pedder from Bristol Medical School (Population Health Science)
Emma Tarmey: Variable selection in causal inference: development of methods and software for epidemiology. Kate Tilling & Jonathan Sterne from Bristol Medical School (Population Health Science). Plus Rhian Daniel (Cardiff University)