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Honourable Mention for Tom Berrett for Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award
The Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award (https://www.bernoullisociety.org/prizes/267-bernoulli-society-new-researcher-award) is given annually to young researchers of the Bernoulli Society alternately in the fields of Mathematical Statistics and Probability. Tom has received an honourable mention for the 2023 award for researchers in Mathematical Statistics. Tom joined the Department of Statistics as an Assistant Professor in July 2020. He works mainly to develop statistical methodology and theory for nonparametric and high-dimensional problems, with a recent focus on data privacy and missing data. Particular interests include nearest neighbour and permutation methods, and hypothesis testing.