Name Paul Fearnhead | Doctoral advisor Peter Clifford | |
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Thesis Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in Filter Theory (1998) | ||
Paul Fearnhead is Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the leading researchers in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods. His interests include genetics – he has published several papers working on the epidemiology of campylobacter by looking at recombination events in a large sample of genomes – and sampling theory.
Awards
Fearnhead won the Adams Prize in 2007.
In 2007 he also won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society.
References
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