Foundations of Data Science

Professor Ken Benoit

Professor of Computational Social Science

Dr Tuğkan Batu

Assistant Professor - Department of Mathematics

My main research interests are in algorithms and theory of computation in general. 

Generalized Uniformity Testing (2017-).

Dr Siân Brooke

LSE Fellow in Computational Social Science / Leverhulme ECR Fellowship - Department of Methodology

Women in data science and AI (2021)

Professor Umut Cetin

Professor of Statistics - Department of Statistics

Dr Yunxiao Chen

Assistant Professor - Department of Statistics

Recent collaborations include Compound sequential change-point detection in parallel data streams (2021)

Kostas Kalogeropoulos

Associate Professor - Department of Statistics

I am involved in two projects on factor analysis, one focusing on model assessment and the other on sequential learning thereof. Another project is on estimating causal effects using Gaussian processes.

Dr Joshua Loftus

Assistant Professor - Department of Statistics

I am interested in statistical and mathematical theory to support applications in the regulation, explanation, and control of machine learning and AI systems, especially in order to reduce social or environmental harms of the proliferation of such systems.

Disaggregated Interventions to Reduce Inequality (2021)

Dr Blake Miller

Assistant Professor - Department of Methodology

Dr Eleanor Power

Assistant Professor - Department of Methodology

Developing Latent Hierarchical Network Models for Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Social and Economic Inequality (2021)

Watch Elly discuss her research here.

Xinghao Qiao

Assistant Professor - Department of Statistics

Research interests: functional data analysis, high dimensional statistics, time series analysis, Bayesian nonparametrics.

Professor Johannes Ruf

Associate Professor - Department of Mathematics

Information Leakage in Backtesting (2021)

Dr Chengchun Shi

Assistant Professor - Department of Statistics

My research lies in reinforcement learning and analysis of complex data, with applications to healthcare, ridesharing and neuroimaging.

Dr Rachel Spicer

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science

I am very interested in how data processing decisions can lead to spurious results. I identified an error in the handling of missing data in a Nature article that led to it being retracted simultaneously to the publication of our rebuttal (Treatment of missing data determines conclusions regarding moralising gods (2021)).

Professor László Végh

Professor - Department of Mathematics

Research interests: Statistical machine learning with focus on information theory, kernel methods, scalable computation.

Professor Henry Wynn

Emeritus Professor of Statistics

Against Sacrifice (2021)

Dr Erica Thompson

Senior Policy Fellow in Ethics of Modelling and Simulation