Ritabrata (Rito) Dutta is an Assistant Professor of Statistics.

Research Interests: Likelihood-free Inference, Scoring rules, Mechanistic Models, Model Selection, Applications of Statistics in Natural Science (e.g. Meteorology, Epidemiology, Bio-simulation etc.).

Ongoing Projects

Likelihood-free inference using machine learning (eg. classification, distance learning, energy-based models)
COVID-19: Optimal Lock-down
Quantifying effects of climate change on extreme weather events via distributional downscaling

Postdocs

Dr. Georgios Vasdekis (with Dr. Richard Everitt)

Phd students

Lorenzo Pacchiardi, University of Oxford, UK (with Prof. Geoff Nicholls)
Rilwan Adewoyin, University of Warwick, UK (with Prof. Yulan He)