People
Meet the Department
Senior Management
Professor Milan Vojnovic
Professor and Head of Department
Professor Kostas Kardaras
Professor and Deputy Head of Department (Research)
Professor Umut Cetin
Professor and Deputy Head of Department (Teaching)
Imelda Noble Andolfo
Department Manager
Muhammed Sabih Iqbal
Deputy Department Manager for Teaching and Programme Delivery
Academic Faculty
Dr James Abdey
Associate Professor (Education)
Dr Leonardo Alves Dias
Assistant Professor in Data Science (Education Career Track) and BSc Economics and Data Science Programme Co-Director
Dr Mona Azadkia
Assistant Professor and MSc Statistics Programme Director.
Dr Marcos Barreto
Associate Professor (Education) and Department Lead on AI in Education
Professor Pauline Barrieu
Professor and Vice Chair of the Appointments Committee
Dr Erik Baurdoux
Associate Professor
Professor Wicher Bergsma
Professor
Professor Umut Cetin
Professor and Deputy Head of Department (Teaching).
Dr Yining Chen
Associate Professor
Dr Yunxiao Chen
Associate Professor and MSc Health Data Science Programme Director (joint with Health Policy)
Professor Angelos Dassios
Professor
Dr Alessandro De Palma
Assistant Professor in Data Science
Dr Oliver Feng
Assistant Professor and MSc Financial Statistics Deputy Programme Director
Professor Piotr Fryzlewicz
Professor
Dr Sara Geneletti
Associate Professor
Dr David Itkin
Assistant Professor and MPhil/PhD Deputy Programme Director.
Dr Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Associate Professor and MSc Statistics and MSc Statistics (Research) Deputy Programme Director.
Professor Kostas Kardaras
Professor and Deputy Head of Department (Research)
Dr Ieva Kazlauskaitė
Assistant Professor and MSc Data Science Deputy Programme Director.
Professor Jouni Kuha
Professor
Professor Clifford Lam
Professor
Dr Pik Liew
Associate Professor (Education), BSc Actuarial Science and BSc Actuarial Science with a Placement Year Programme Co-Director and Student Experience Strategic Lead.
Dr Giulia Livieri
Associate Professor and MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management Deputy Programme Director
Dr Joshua Loftus
Assistant Professor
Dr Gelly Mitrodima
Assistant Professor (Education) and BSc Mathematics, Statistics and Business Programme Director.
Professor Irini Moustaki
Professor
Dr Chengchun Shi
Associate Professor and MPhil/PhD Programme Director.
Dr Andreas Søjmark
Assistant Professor and MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management Programme Director.
Professor Fiona Steele
Professor
Professor Zoltan Szabo
Professor of Data Science and MSc Data Science Programme Director.
Professor Milan Vojnovic
Professor and Head of Department
Professor Tengyao Wang
Professor and MSc Financial Statistics and MSc Financial Statistics (Research) Programme Director.
Professor Qiwei Yao
Professor
Dr Christine Yuen
Assistant Professor (Education) and BSc Data Science Programme Director and BSc Economics and Data Science Programme Co-Director.
Dr Xiaolin Zhu
Assistant Professor (Education) and BSc Actuarial Science and BSc Actuarial Science with a Placement Year Programme Co-Director.
Academic Associates
Professor Anthony Atkinson
Emeritus Professor in Statistics
Dr Martin Knott
Emeritus Associate Professor in Statistics
Professor Howell Tong
Emeritus Professor in Statistics
Dr Phil Chan
Guest Lecturer
Dr Anastasia Kakou
Guest Lecturer and GTA Mentor
Dr Milt Mavrakakis
Guest Lecturer
Karsten Shaw
Guest Lecturer
Dr George Zouros
Guest Teacher
Dr Camilo Cárdenas Hurtado
Visiting Fellow
Dr Zetai Cen
Visiting Fellow
Dr Tomasz Dubiel-Teleszynski
Visiting Fellow
Dr Qin Fang
Visiting Fellow
Dr Shakeel Gavioli Akilagun
Visiting Fellow
Dr Haziq Jamil
Visiting Fellow
Dr Xinyi Lui
Visiting Fellow
Visiting Fellow
Dr Francesca Panero
Visiting Fellow
Dr Fabrice Wunderlich
Visiting Fellow
Dr Xuzhi Yang
Visiting Fellow
Professor Colm O’Muircheartaigh
Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
Professional Services Staff
John Barlow
External Engagement and Communications Lead
j.barlow1@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7955 6053 | COL 7.13Ask me about: Engagement and communications.
Penelope Smith
Communications Officer
p.a.smith@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7955 7629 | COL 7.13Ask me about: Internal student communications, student experience, website management, alumni events, student hub and graduation.
Daniel Titherington
External Engagement and Communications Officer
d.m.titherington@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7955 6954 | COL 7.13Ask me about: External communications, social media and events.
Imelda Noble Andolfo
Department Manager
i.noble-andolfo@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7955 7731 | COL 6.13Ask me about: Logistics, academic recruitment, teaching strategy, GTAs and planning.
Muhammed Sabih Iqbal
Deputy Department Manager for Teaching and Programme Delivery
m.s.iqbal@lse.ac.uk | +44 20 7955 7355 | COL 6.12Ask me about: Teaching and programme delivery.
Franks Reyes Sarria
Department Senior Student Adviser
f.r.reyes-sarria@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7955 7169 | COL 5.09
Further contact details available here.Ask me about: Getting advice and support.
Penny Montague
Research and Finance Manager
p.montague@lse.ac.uk | For finance queries: stats.finance@lse.ac.uk |+44 (0)20 7955 7511 | COL 5.09Ask me about: Research and finance.
Rossana Duarte
Finance and Operations Officer
r.duarte1@lse.ac.uk | For finance queries: stats.finance@lse.ac.uk |+44 (0)20 7955 6014 | COL 6.14Ask me about: Finance queries, space planning, IT equipment orders and inventory management.
Jide Gbadamosi
PhD and Teaching Programmes Manager
stats.mphil.phd@lse.ac.uk | COL 6.14Ask me about: PhD programme administration and class and seminar teaching.
Josiah Phoenix
MSc Programmes Manager
stats-msc@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 6879 | COL 6.11Ask me about: MSc Data Science, MSc Health Data Science (joint programme between Department of Health Policy and Department of Statistics), MSc Statistics (all streams) and MSc QMRM. Josiah will not be able to answer any admissions related queries.
Alison Sze
Programmes Administrator (Postgraduate)
stats-msc@lse.ac.uk | COL 6.11
Ask me about: Postgraduate administration.
Yanli Ji
Undergraduate Programmes Manager
stats.bsc@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7955 7453 | COL 6.11Ask me about: General BSc programme enquiries, timetabling, teaching and assessment, UG SSLC and exams administration.
Nicola Jordan
Placements Coordinator
n.jordan1@lse.ac.ukAsk me about: The industry placement year in the BSc Actuarial Science with a Placement Year degree. This includes sourcing, coordinating, and administering work placements for students.
Sharon To
Programmes Administrator (Undergraduate)
stats.bsc@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7955 7838 | COL 6.11Ask me about: General programme enquiries, coursework submissions, newletters and exams administration.
Research Staff
Dr Han Yan
Research Officer
PhD Students
Visiting Research Students
Thomas Borsani
Research interests: Optimising kernel-based deep learning models.
Caixia Xu
Research interests: Change-point detection, deep learning, and functional data analysis