Position | Lecturer |
Phone (external) | +44(0)20 7679 1858 |
Phone (internal) | 41858 |
Email(*) | samuel.livingstone |
Personal webpage | |
Themes | Computational Statistics, General Theory and Methodology, |
* @ucl.ac.uk
Biographical Details
I have been a lecturer (assistant professor) in Statistics at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ since January 2018. Before that I was a postdoctoral researcher with Christophe Andrieu at the University of Bristol, as part of the 'i-like: intractable likelihood' project, and before that I was a PhD student at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾, supervised by Mark Girolami and Alex Beskos. In a previous life I worked as a transport planner specialising in demand and revenue forecasting.
Research Interests
My primary research area is Bayesian computation, with a particular focus on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. I also workÌýin Health Data Science, by which I mean building probabilisticÌýmodelsÌýforÌýhealthcareÌýand biological applications.
Group
I currently supervise three PhD students:
- Xitong Liang (co-supervised with Professor Jim Griffin), since September 2019
- Max Hird, since September 2020
- Luke Hardcastle (co-supervised with Professor Gianluca Baio), since September 2021
Selected publications
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