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Paul Fearnhead

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Paul Fearnhead
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Scientific career
InstitutionsLancaster University
ThesisSequential Monte Carlo Methods in Filter Theory (1998)
Doctoral advisorPeter Clifford
Other academic advisorsPeter Donnelly
Websitewww.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~fearnhea/

Paul Fearnhead is Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the leading researchers in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods. His interests include genetics – he has published several papers working on the epidemiology of campylobacter by looking at recombination events in a large sample of genomes – and sampling theory.

Awards

Fearnhead won the Adams Prize in 2007.[1]

In 2007 he also won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society.

References

  1. ^ "2007 Adams Prize winner announced". 2007-07-27. Retrieved 2010-05-17.


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