SEDS existed from 2015-2020, and has now been replaced by the Data Science Institute. The information here is kept only for historical purposes.
Kenneth Benoit
Professor of Computational Social Science, Department of Methodology, LSE
Research interests: Automated quantitative methods; political texts and social media; analysis of big data; methods of text mining; comparative party competition; European Parliament; electoral systems
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László Végh
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE
Research interests: Discrete and continuous optimisation; algorithm design; game theory; theoretical foundations of machine learning
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Milan Vojnovic
Director, LSE SEDS
Professor of Data Science, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Machine learning and data mining; distributed computing; economics and computation; information networks
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Martin Anthony
Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE
Research interests: Mathematical modelling of machine learning; Boolean and pseudo-Boolean functions
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Pauline Barrieu
Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Model uncertainty; Decision making; Insurance-linked securities; Contract design
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Matteo Barigozzi
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Methods for high-dimensional factor analysis; network analysis; financial econometrics; statistical learning for spatio-temporal dependent data
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Tugkan Batu
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE
Research interests: Theory of Computation; Algorithms; Randomised Computation; Sublinear Algorithms; Property Testing; Testing Distributions
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Kenneth Benoit
Professor of Computational Social Science, Department of Methodology, LSE
Research interests: Automated quantitative methods; Political texts and social media; Analysis of big data; Methods of text mining; Comparative party competition; European Parliament; Electoral systems
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Umut Çetin
Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Theory of Markov processes; Monte-Carlo simulation; Stochastic analysis; Market microstructure; Mathematical finance
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Yining Chen
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Change-point detection; nonparametric estimation; computational statistics; applications in medicine
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Yunxiao Chen
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Statistical analysis and computational algorithms for large-scale item response data; Statistical modeling and computational algorithms for dynamic behavioural data; Sequential design of dynamic systems, with applications to educational assessment and learning
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Paul Duetting
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE
Research interests: Algorithms; Game Theory; Mechanism Design
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Piotr Fryzlewicz
Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Multiscale modelling and estimation; time series (especially nonstationary time series); change-point detection; high-dimensional statistical inference and dimension reduction; statistical learning, networks; statistics in economics and finance; statistics in the social sciences; statistics in neuroscience
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Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Bayesian Inference for Stochastic processes; Hamiltonian Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Sequential Monte Carlo; Factor Analysis
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Clifford Lam
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Regularization methods for high dimensional data; semiparametric and nonparametric modelling; financial econometrics; spatial econometrics
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Irini Moustaki
Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Latent variable and structural equation models for large and complex data sets; composite likelihood estimation methods; models for categorical data; handling missing values and drop out in longitudinal studies; multivariate analysis; Psychometrics
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Johannes Ruf
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE
Research interests: Stochastic analysis; Mathematical finance; statistics in finance; statistical learning; time series analysis; financial econometrics; Blockchain; machine learning; social network analysis
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Chris Skinner
Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Administrative data; confidentiality; data quality; government statistics; measurement error; missing data; privacy; sampling
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Milena Tsvetkova
Assistant Professor, Department of Methodology, LSE
Research interests: Computational social science; online experiments; network analysis; agent based modeling; cooperation; collective behaviour; sociology; social psychology
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Luitgard Veraart
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE
Research interests: Mathematical finance; statistics in finance; risk management in financial markets; financial networks; systemic risk; energy markets; optimal investment; stochastic volatility
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Qiwei Yao
Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE
Research interests: Time series analysis; dimension reduction; factor modelling; financial econometrics; statistical learning for dependent data
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