Misplaced Pages

Richard John SamworthFRS
Born	May 1978 (age 46)
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

Richard John Samworth FRS (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 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

• Rustagi Memorial Lecture (2021), The Ohio State University
• Fellow, Royal Society (2021 election)
• The COPSS Presidents' Award 2018
• IMS Medallion Lecture 2018
• The Adams Prize 2017
• Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election)
• Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election)
• The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society
• The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society

Selected works

• 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

1. ^ "Professor Richard Samworth FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. 2021.
2. "Richard Samworth | Official web page at Cambridge". statslab.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
3. "Rustagi Memorial Lecture | Department of Statistics".
4. "ASA Community".
5. "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Medallion lecture previews: Richard Samworth, Thomas Mikosch".
6. "Adams Prize winners 2016–17 announced | Adams Prize".
7. "ASA Newsroom" (PDF).
8. http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/templates/asset-relay.cfm?frmAssetFileID=1733
9. "IMS Fellows 2014 « IMS Bulletin". bulletin.imstat.org. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
10. "Account Suspended". rssenews.org.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
11. "The Royal Statistical Society". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.

External links

• Richard Samworth's home page at the University of Cambridge.

• 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