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Paul Fearnhead

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Paul Fearnhead
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Scientific career
InstitutionsLancaster University
ThesisSequential Monte Carlo Methods in Filter Theory (1998)
Doctoral advisorPeter Clifford
Other academic advisorsPeter Donnelly
Websitewww.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~fearnhea/

Paul Fearnhead is the Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is a researcher in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods. His interests include changepoint analysis, sampling theory and genetics – he has published several papers working on the epidemiology of campylobacter by looking at recombination events in a large sample of genomes. Since January 2018 he has been the editor of Biometrika.[1]

Awards

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Fearnhead won the Adams Prize in 2007.[2]

In 2007 he also won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society.

References

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  1. ^ "Biometrika". Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. ^ "2007 Adams Prize winner announced". 27 July 2007. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
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