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🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog
Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events
✈️ 🇺🇲 🍏 Dr Giulia Livieri visited the Big Apple last week to present ‘Testing for endogeneity of irregular sampling schemes’ at the MPSS Conference on Financial Econometrics that took place at Princeton University. Giulia's associated paper 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4307336
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Day 1 of our Research Showcase 2026 is done — a full day on generative AI with speakers from Meta, Barclays, AstraZeneca, GitHub Next, Cambridge, and our own department. Talks, posters, and plenty of conversation. Days 2 and 3 to come. 📊
We're excited to partner at #AISummit London! Join us 10 June at Tobacco Dock for AI career insights. 📍 #LondonTechWeek #LSE
Marcos Barreto will be our closing speaker at next week's Research Showcase industry 'Workshop on Generative AI: Research Advances & Applications' - presenting 'Rethinking core skills in programming education in the age of AI agents' 👉 Info & reg: tinyurl.com/b6nffrsz
🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog
🎙️ Giulia Livieri presents her research on endogeneity tests in high-frequency finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, 21 May. Find out more here: https://www.eur.nl/en/ese/events/testing-endogeneity-irregular-sampling-schemes-2026-05-21
Testing for endogeneity of irregular sampling schemes
Giulia Livieri (LSE)
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What if your AI model looks fair, but only on average...? New 'The Measure of it' blog out now: 'Beyond average: A new approach to multicalibration brings group fairness to web scale'. Read our introduction to the powerful ML algorithm 'MCGrad' here: tinyurl.com/y3mrppdx
John Barlow and Daniel Titherington introduce MCGrad (MultiCalibration Gradient Boosting).
John Barlow and Daniel Titherington introduce MCGrad (MultiCalibration Gradient Boosting), a powerful machine learning algorithm developed by researchers at Meta and Professor Milan Vojnovic.
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Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events
Join the Department of Statistics as we host Dr Sander Beckers from the Department of Statistical Science, UCL as he looks at Large Language Models as Nondeterministic Causal Models 21 May 2026 2.30pm - 3.30pm LSE, Columbia House Leverhulme Library
Dr Giulia Livieri received 2nd place in the #LSE Photo Competition! Giulia's photo is titled "Reflected Futures" with 'The Shard rising in a rain puddle beside older houses & bare branches, the photo turns an ordinary pavement into a layered image of London where past, present & future meet.'
The speakers for our 2026 Research Showcase 'Workshop on Generative AI: Research Advances & Applications' is almost complete - Barclays' Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos (Head of AI/ML & Quantum Technologies) has joined the lineup. 👉 Free ticket & programme here: tinyurl.com/b6nffrsz
Last night 200+ clinicians, policy makers, pharma leaders and health tech founders gathered at LSE to hear PharmovoAI's Akber Tahir on using predictive AI to stop medicine shortages before they happen. A brilliant start to our In-Practice lecture series. More to come. 🔬 #HealthcareAI #DataScience
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We're excited to welcome Rodolphe Jenatton, Co-Founder & CTO of Bioptimus, for our Industry Seminar on 19 May, 15:00 at Columbia House, LSE! 📍🗓⏰ #Bioptimus #AI Sign up: https://forms.office.com/e/yBDvsb6FgX
📢It's another speaker announcement for you re the LSE Dep of Stats Research Showcase 2026... GitHub's Principal Researcher, Don Syme, will present 'Agentic Repository Automation with GitHub Agentic Workflows'. Event open to all, register here today!: lse.ac.uk/statistics/e...
🎉New blog alert!🎉 Our wonderful MSc Data Science student Amara Jane Otero Salgado shares her recent insights on working as a Research Assistant at LSE. Read her blog here➡️https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog/on-working-as-an-lse-research-assistant
We loved seeing so many of you at our Statistics Undergraduate Offer Holder Day today!☺️☀️ Applicants with an offer for entry in September '26 came to #LSE to hear talks from our amazing BSc Programme Directors and get to know each other. We are excited for you to become #PartofLSE🥳
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📢We have another speaker announcement for you today re the LSE Dep of Stats Research Showcase 2026: Tatiana Shavrina, Research Scientist Manager at Meta will present 'Advancing Scientific Research with AI Research Agents'. Event open to all. 👉Register here today!: lse.ac.uk/statistics/e...
📢We're delighted to announce that Yi Wei (Lead, Deep Learning Team AstraZeneca) will be joining us at our 'Workshop on Generative AI: Research Advances & Applications', on 26 May, part of the 3 day LSE Dep of Stats Research Showcase 2026. 👉Reg: www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events/research-showcase-2026
What a brilliant day at LSE Undergraduate Open Day! Thanks to Pik, Gelly, and all who joined us to explore Statistics. Learn more: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/prospective-students/bsc-programmes
Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events
📣 New blog published! tinyurl.com/yfh3zat4 'Working with international trade data to establish robust evidence in turbulent times' by Dr Francesca Torti (European Commission). 🧐Read about her work exploring the use of statistical methods to identify customs duty evasion & sanctions circumvention.
Producing international trade statistics
Dr Francesca Torti outlines her work on producing international trade statistics in our increasingly crises-, protectionism- and sanction- defined era.
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🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog
