Departmental news
Undergraduate of the year award with AON
The Warwick Statistics Department are very proud that one of our students, Oliver Crook, has won the Future Actuary Undergraduate of the Year Award with AON.
Fan Wang awarded a 2024 Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award
Fan Wang, a 4th year PhD student, has awarded a Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She is the only UK-based recipient this year.
Theo Damoulas wins Wilkes Award
Theo Damoulas and co-authors have been announced as the recipients of the 2024 Wilkes Award for the best paper published in The Computer Journal in 2023.
Yi Yu wins Leverhulme Prize
Congratulations to Yi Yu who has been announced as one of the winners of the 2023 Philip Leverhulme Prizes. Chosen from over 400 nominations, five prizes were awarded in each of six subject areas, one of which was Mathematics and Statistics. The prizes recognise and celebrate the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future careers are exceptionally promising. Each prize is worth £100,000 and may be used for any purpose that advances the prize winner’s research.
PSI Student Prize
MMORSE student Megan Adrian has been awarded a prize by PSI (Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry)
David Firth awarded Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship
Professor David Firth has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, to support his research in the next two years on a new project, ‘Compositional data analysis via statistical modelling.’
Interdisciplinary Workshops on Statistics and the Law
Professor Jane Hutton of Warwick Statistics has won the Royal Statistical Society 2023 Mardia interdisciplinary workshop prize. Four workshops will be held on aspects of Statistics and the Law.
Warwick Statistics ranked 16th globally by QS
In the latest (2023) QS World University rankings, Warwick is ranked 16th (4th in the UK) for Statistics and Operational Research, the highest for any subject group at Warwick.
Honourable Mention for Tom Berrett for Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award
Tom Berrett has received an honourable mention for the Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2023
Warwick Statistics & The National Archives joint project shortlisted for 2022 DAS / SDP Practice Award
Joint research between the department's Applied Statistics & Risk Unit and The National Archives has been shortlisted for the international 2022 DAS / SDP Practice Award.