🎉🎓Congratulations to our wonderful Statistics graduates on your graduation day! Enjoy every moment of this special occasion! From everyone in the Department, we wish you all the very best for your future adventures.

We were deeply saddened to hear of the sudden death of Professor Adrian Bowman, a distinguished statistician, longstanding RSS fellow, and valued contributor to the Society for almost five decades. Adrian's contributions to statistics, teaching, and the RSS will have a lasting impact.

Adrian W. Bowman, 1955-2026

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Federic Perlino, who is currently in the second year of a PhD working with Theo Damoulas and I has just arxived the first paper arising from it: arxiv.org/abs/2607.09645. In which he develops models for function composition over graphical structures using Gaussian processes.

Deep Gaussian Processes on Directed Acyclic Graphs

Many real-world processes can be represented as compositions of functions along a directed acyclic graph (DAG). In causal modelling, these correspond to the underlying mechanisms; in engineering, to m...

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Today's arxival doi.org/10.48550/arX... presents a fairly general construction showing how resampling can be implemented within conditional SMC to preserve the right invariant distribution for a very broad class of resampling schemes without resorting to permuting or cycling indices.

Warwick Statistics is recruiting a Tutor. This is a one year fixed-term role for the academic year 26-27. Closing Deadline: Thursday 9th July 2026 at 11:55pm (UK Time) warwick-careers.tal....

This RSS call for discussion papers might be of interest to many of my friends and colleagues.... rss.org.uk/news-publica... (abstract deadline is 8th July, fully paper in November).

With friends at the University of Warwick (in particular, Rocco Caprio and @adriencorenflos.bsky.social), we've recently arXived some work (arxiv.org/abs/2605.30253) on a method for approximate inference known as "Coordinate Ascent Variational Inference", or "CAVI" for short. Let me explain:

The theme for the RSS William Guy Lectureship for 2026/27 is "Statistics and Misinformation"; if you might be interested the deadline for applications is 27th March (see rss.org.uk/policy-campa...).

There's a funded PhD position on generative AI in the finance industry (UK Home students only, sadly) available at Cardiff www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (closes April 13th).

Gen AI Model Management in Financial Services: Advancing Explainability, Transparency, and Lifecycle Monitoring at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Gen AI Model Management in Financial Services: Advancing Explainability, Transparency, and Lifecycle Monitoring at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Today, Janique Krasnowska, a doctoral student working with Paul Jenkins and I, arxived her first manuscript: doi.org/10.48550/arX.... it's something of a departure for me, so I've certainly learned a lot!

📢 Applications for the Summer Research Experience at Warwick Statistics is now open! The Summer Research Experience (SRE) is an 8 week programme taking place in July and August for students not currently at Warwick.

Congratulations to Jenning Lim on a successful defence of his thesis, "Particle Algorithms for Inference of Probabilistic Models" today, a well deserved success! And thanks to @chris-nemeth.bsky.social and Theo Damoulas for acting as examiners.

Congratulations to Fernando Zepeda on their viva today at @warwickstats.bsky.social; I spent a very enjoyable afternoon with @louisaslett.bsky.social discussing Fernando's thesis, "Non-Reversible Extensions of the ALPS Methodology for Multimodal and Transdimensional Sampling".

🔥 WANTED: Student Researcher to join me, @vdebortoli.bsky.social, Jiaxin Shi, Kevin Li and @arthurgretton.bsky.social in DeepMind London. You'll be working on Multimodal Diffusions for science. Apply here google.com/about/career...

Two assistant prof. vacancies at Warwick Statistics: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre... (deadline 25 January 2025 at 11:55pm). CSML applications very welcome!

Dr. Shishen Lin has joined us as a Research Fellow on the ERC Synergy OCEAN project from September. His research is in learning in games, black-box optimisation and evolutionary algorithms. He is also interested in reinforcement learning and its combination with evolutionary computation methods.

Postdoc, Newcastle University (UK). PINCODE researches Monte Carlo Fusion methods: this postdoc will help developing #rstats packages that bring this methodological work to life, as well as opportunities to contribute to further methodological development. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ807/r...

Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics at Newcastle University

Apply for the Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the RSS CSML will take place on 2 December, 12:00–13:00 (UK time) via Zoom. The meeting is open to all and will review the section’s activities from the past year, outline plans for the year ahead, and present the committee for 2026.

Applications are invited for Chapman Fellow in Mathematics (Statistics Section) at the Department of Mathematics. Closing date: 11 November 2025 www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs//search...

Thinking about doing a PhD in statistics, probability or mathematical finance? Want to learn more about doctoral training at Warwick Statistics? Register now for our upcoming PhD Open Days. Find more information and book your place here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

We are hiring! We are inviting applications for the Chapman Fellowship in Statistics at Imperial College London. This is a kind of super-postdoc: 3 years contract, excellent working conditions, and candidates are expected to propose an independent research plan. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs//search...

Congratulations to Rocco Caprio -- thesis defended, minor corrections done and graduation imminent. Thanks to Gareth Roberts and Andrew Duncan for examining the thesis. Rocco is now a Prob-AI-funded research fellow warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/stat... and I look forward to seeing what comes next.

There are a couple of vacancies in Wollongong for Maths/Stats lecturers: www.uow.edu.au/about/jobs/j...

Some fun news: We're hiring! Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. Closing date 13 October 2025; link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

RcppSMC 0.2.9 on CRAN: Maintenance Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filters for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09... #rstats #rcpp

An announcement, which might be of some interest: In the period 2022-2024, myself and a number of other postdocs on the "CoSInES" and "Bayes4Health" EPSRC grants were involved in organising a number of internal tutorial workshops, on topics relevant to researchers in computational statistics.

As evidence that this prediction wasn't too bad, [https://academic.oup.com/biomet/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biomet/asaf061/8223075](Rocco's second paper), showing the fast convergence of the venerable EM algorithm using a rather fun functional analysis argument, is in press for Biometrika.

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I'm sure this will be the first of many.

Applications are still open for another two weeks.

Adam Johansen@adamjohansen.bsky.social · last yr.

If anyone is, or knows anyone who is, looking for a postdoc position to work on the foundations of scalable inference and such... applications for a postdoctoral position at Warwick as a part of the OCEAN project (oceanerc.com) are open until 20th August at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre....

If anyone is, or knows anyone who is, looking for a postdoc position to work on the foundations of scalable inference and such... applications for a postdoctoral position at Warwick as a part of the OCEAN project (oceanerc.com) are open until 20th August at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre....

OCEAN

OCEAN is an ERC Synergy grant gathering researchers to lay the fundations of the next-generation machine learning algorithms, involving decentralized inference and predictive tasks in the presence …

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New work on inference for partially observed (hypoelliptic) SDEs in frequentist/Bayesian regimes. Splitting schemes & controlled SMC (+ bridges) to recover the (pseudo)likelihood of interest arxiv.org/abs/2507.14535 Work led by Shu, with @adamjohansen.bsky.social and @bayesianstats.bsky.social