Dr Oliver Feng

Oliver is a Assistant Professor in Statistics, having previously been a lecturer at the University of Bath and a PhD student and postdoc at the University of Cambridge. He is interested in developing flexible theory and methodology that respect meaningful structural constraints. For instance, he has worked on shape-restricted inference problems where it may be reasonable to assume that a regression function or log-density is concave, but not that it belongs to a specific parametric family. Oliver is also exploring the applications of score matching and its links to convex optimisation. Overall, his research has a nonparametric flavour, with a particular emphasis on the robustness of statistical procedures to outliers and model misspecification. Oliver has also been involved in some interdisciplinary collaborations related to respiratory illnesses and the career intentions of medical students.