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Official account for the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick. Home of MORSE, CRiSM, AS&RU and APTS.
Yesterday afternoon, we hosted the third and final event in this year’s Flagship Careers Series: Medical Statistics and Health Data Science.
February 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Professor Gareth Roberts will deliver this year’s P. C. Mahalanobis Lectures, presenting six talks between 13-23 February at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi, Kolkata, and Bangalore.

Information about the P.C. Mahalanobis Lectures 2025-26: www.isibang.ac.in/~s....
February 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Another exciting workshop to be held at Warwick Statistics this coming June: The ProbAI Theory of Scaling Laws Workshop from 22-24 June!

Website of the workshop: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Registration open until 31 March on a first-come-first-serve basis: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc....
January 29, 2026 at 12:38 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Professor Andreas Kyprianou on his appointment as a Founding Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences!🎉
January 29, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Last Wednesday, we celebrated our newest graduation cohort. Congratulations to our prize winners and indeed all our graduates — we are so proud of you! We hope you will stay in touch and remain part of our Warwick Statistics family as alumni. 💜
January 26, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations to our Statistics graduates graduating today 🎓 Enjoy the day, and from everyone in the department, best wishes for the future!
January 21, 2026 at 1:14 PM
📰 Our Statistical Advisory Clinic is back for Term 2!!

🎉 We are happy to announce that the Statistical Advisory Clinic has been awarded the Digital, Data Science, and AI (DDSAI) Spotlight’s Small Grant Scheme at Warwick!
January 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Our first CRiSM colloquium of the year will be given by Daniela Witten, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of Washington. Daniela is a recipient of the COPSS Presidents’ Award in 2022.

Join us from 2–3pm on Tuesday, 27 January!
January 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Today marks the start of Term 2 of the 2025/26 academic year, and we are delighted to welcome all our students back to the department. We wish everyone sitting January exams the very best and hope you all have a great start to the new term.
January 12, 2026 at 9:30 AM
As we sign off for 2025, we would like to thank all our staff, students and alumni for another successful year at Warwick Statistics. Thank you to everyone who has followed the news and updates from our department throughout the year. We wish you all a very happy Christmas and see you again in 2026!
December 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Ollie Kemp successfully passed his PhD viva last week! The PhD thesis is titled 'Reducing estimation bias in challenging modelling settings'. Ollie is supervised by Prof. Ioannis Kosmidis. On behalf of the entire department, we would like to congratulate Ollie on this fantastic achievement!!
December 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today marks the end of Term 1. Well done to all our students who have worked hard over the past ten weeks — through lectures, tutorials, assignments, and etc. We wish everyone a happy Christmas break and look forward to welcoming you back in the New Year!
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🎉 Many congratulations to Sanket Agrawal, who passed his PhD viva last month! Sanket has research interests in topics in probability and stochastic processes, with a focus on the stability and convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms.
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🤔 Thinking about doing a PhD in statistics, probability or mathematical finance?
🎓 Want to join a world-class doctoral programme?
Here at the Warwick Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Statistics, we offer 10+ fully funded PhD studentships to talented applicants from around the globe.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Week 10 is upon us, and that can mean only one thing — our End of Term Celebration! Come along tomorrow for a fun quiz, free lunch, cakes, and hot chocolate, and take a moment to relax with your friends, peers, and colleagues. All ST students and staff are welcome!
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Congratulations to Harry Giles, who passed his PhD viva last month! His thesis is titled “Fluctuations, Diffusivity, and Superdiffusivity in Statistical Mechanics.” Everyone in the department wishes him all the best for his next venture.
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The registration for the LMS Research Summer School in Robust Statistics and Reliable Learning Algorithms to be held next summer at Warwick is still open!! It's suitable for PhD students of all years and early-career researchers.

🔗 Registration (deadline: 7 December 2025): warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Professor Jim Smith from our department is part of this exciting AiTASHA project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). AiTASHA stands for AI Intelligence Triage & Acquisition Support for Human-centred Analysis. Check out what Jim said about the project below.
📊 New project announced: building AI tools to enhance security analyst capabilities

We're convening experts from leading UK universities & gov security partners to enhance intelligence analysts’ assessment capabilities.

Learn more about the project: https://bit.ly/49xVROl
New research consortium will use AI to support and enhance intelligence analysis for national security
The Alan Turing Institute has been awarded a £1m research grant to develop AI methods to support and enhance intelligence analysis for national security and
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November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🎉 Earlier this month, Guglielmo Gattiglio successfully passed his PhD viva! His PhD thesis is titled "Scalability and Uncertainty Quantification for Parallel-in-Time Differential Equation Solvers". Many congratulations Guglielmo!

🔗 Link to Guglielmo's homepage: guglielmogattiglio.com/.
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Keen to participate in the Dual Trimester Program "Geometric Statistics: theory, application, and computation" at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics in Bonn in Autumn 2026?

Applications are still open! Find all information and the application platform here: www.mathematics.uni-....
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We are hiring!

We are recruiting two Assistant Professors. The closing date is 25 January 2026. More information here 🔗: warwick-careers.tal.....
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The Department of Statistics at Warwick is holding an MSc Online Open Day for prospective master’s students on Monday, 24th November, at 10am (UK time).

Find more information and register here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🎉 Shreya Sinha Roy, a fourth-year PhD student in our department, has recently been announced as one of the 21 recipients of the IMS 2025 ICSDS Student Travel Award. Shreya has research interests in computational statistics, sampling methods, and reinforcement learning.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Isabella Gonçalves de Alvarenga has successfully completed her PhD viva last week!
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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.
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM