Our academic staff

Dr Daniel Ahelegbey

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Dr Murat Akman

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities associated to quasi-linear elliptic PDEs and stability of these inequalities.; Minkowski type problems associated to quasi-linear elliptic PDEs.; Perturbation of elliptic operators on non-smooth domains; Regularity and free boundary regularity for quasi-linear elliptic PDEs in rough domains; Conformal densities and metric properties of measures

Dr Tahani Al-Karkhi

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Dr Chris Antonopoulos

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Mathematical modelling of the brain; Mathematical approaches to infer network connectivity; Multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, chaotic dynamics and complex statistics; Mathematical modelling of the spread of COVID-19 in communities; Nonlinear dynamics and long-term behaviour; Synchronisation, chimera-like states and emergence of collective behaviour in complex systems; Time-series analysis and forecasting; Any of the PhD projects I am offering, combined with machine learning and/or artificial intelligence approaches

Dr Oludare Ariyo

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Biostatistics; Bayesian computational statistics; Joint modelling for longitudinal and survival analysis.; Multivariate Analysis; Mixed-Effect model; High-Dimensional data; Models for multivariate repeated measures

Dr Joseph Bailey

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Mathematical biology/ecology, individual and group movement, random walk theory, movement and time-series data analysis, mathematical education.

Dr Yanchun Bao

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Longitudinal data analysis; Survival analysis; Mendelian Randomization; Causal method (Instrumental variable method, structural mean model); Covariance modelling; Bioinformatics research for omic data

Dr Zoe Bartlett

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Dr Xu Chen

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Neuroimaging data analysis; Multiple testing; Imaging genetics

Dr Jessica Claridge

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Network Coding; Information Theory; Coding Theory; Mathematics Education

Professor Edward Codling

Faculty Dean Research (Science and Health) - Professor (R), School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Animal movement and dispersal; Random walks and diffusion; Analysis of movement data; Collective behaviour; Human crowd behaviour; Animal social network analysis; Fisheries modelling, assessment, and management; Modelling population dynamics

Dr Alex Diana

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Dr Saideh Ferdowsi

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Computational neuroscience; Brain Connectivity; Deep Learning application in neuroscience; Blind Source Seperation for biomedical data analysis; Brain Computer Interface; Physiological signal Processing

Dr Nikolaos Fytas

Reader (R), School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Statistical Mechanics; Disordered Systems; Theoretical Physics; Applied Mathematics; Condensed Matter Physics; Soft Matter Physics; Computational Physics; Physical Chemistry

Dr Tao Gao

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Nonlinear waves; Applied Mathematics; Numerical Optimisation; Uncertainty quantification; Fluid mechanics

Dr Vasileios Giagos

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Inference for stochastic kinetic dynamics; Bayesian Analysis; Data Science and Statistical Applications

Dr Georgi Grahovski

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Mathematical physics; Integrable systems (continuous and discrete); Theory of solitons. Nonlinear waves; Lie groups and Lie algebras. Symmetries; Spectral theory. Analysis of PDEs

Dr Sema Gunturkun

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Commutative algebra

Dr Wenxing Guo

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Statistical Machine Learning; Statistical Inference; Statistical Models

Dr Stella Hadjiantoni

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Numerical methods for the development of recursive regularisation and machine learning algorithms; Numerical methods for handling high-dimensional data sets; Predictive modelling; Numerical linear algebra in data science and machine learning; Natural Language Processing

Dr Andrew Harrison

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Bioinformatics

Professor Peter Higgins

Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Algebraic Semigroups (primary); Formal Language Theory, Combinatorics and Graph Theory (secondary)

Dr Junlei Hu

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Professor Berthold Lausen

Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Data Science

Dr Alastair Litterick

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Reductive algebraic groups; Finite groups of Lie type; Representation varieties

Dr Peng Liu

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Optimal reinsurance and decentralized insurance; Quantitative Risk Management (QRM); Extreme Value Theory; Mathematical Finance

Dr Jianya Lu

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Stochastic Processes; Probability Limit Theorems and Moderate Deviations; Time Series; Stochastic Algorithms

Dr Osama Mahmoud

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Medical Statistics and Genetic epidemiology; Causal inference in public health; Data Science and Machine Learning; Predictive modelling

Dr Felipe Maldonado

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Supply Chain & Logistics - Machine Learning Approach; Market Design and Optimisation; Revenue Management; Reinforcement Learning; Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models; Energy Analytics; Time Series Analysis

Dr Jesus Martinez-Garcia

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Algebraic Geometry; Birational geometry and Fano varieties; Moduli spaces and geometric invariant theory; K-stability and canonical metrics

Dr John O'Hara

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: The study of differential equations in finance; The application of artificial intelligence in finance.

Dr Georgios Papamikos

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Continuous and Discrete Integrable Systems; Mathematical Physics; Algebraic methods in the study of Differential Equations

Dr David Penman

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: probabilistic combinatorics, especially random graphs with correlation structure; Paley graphs and other pseudo-random graphs; extremal Ramsey graphs; aspects of posets, quicksort-type algorithms; fixed point polynomials of finite permutation groups; aspects of additive combinatorics such as sets with more sums than differences; sandpile groups of graphs

Dr Danilo Petti

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Copula link-based additive models for bivariate time-to-event outcomes; Variable Ranking in Bivariate Domain; Analysis of Financial Time Series; Development of Statistical Softwares in R Environment

Dr Yassir Rabhi

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Cure rate models; Nonparametric/Semiparametric methods for multivariate length-biased and censored data; Copulas and measures of dependence; Time series and spectral analysis

Dr Igor Rodionov

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Statistics of extremes; Extreme value theory

Dr Rishideep Roy

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Bayesian Statistics; Sports Analytics; Stochastic Processes; Interacting Particle Systems; Election Analytics; Information Spread; Time Series Analysis

Professor Christopher Saker

Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Combinatorics on words, particularly on the study of unavoidable factor sets and related topics; Mathematics Education

Professor Abdellah Salhi

Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Optimisation Mathematical Programming and Heuristics (Evolutionary Computing, Nature-inspired Algorithms, the Strawberry Algorithm); Numerical Analysis Data Mining (Big Data) Bioinformatics

Dr Dmitry Savostyanov

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: High-dimensional problems; Tensor product decompositions

Dr Terry Sithole

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Dr Lan Truong

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Mathematical foundations of deep learning and large language models; Kernel Methods for Machine Learning and Deep Learning; Information Theory for Communications, Deep Learning, and Large Language Models; High-Dimensional Statistics and Algorithms

Dr Alexei Vernitski

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Applying algebra (especially semigroups) to study knots, graphs etc.; Mathematical education; in particular, increasing motivation of learners of mathematics; Machine learning in mathematics; reinforcement learning applied to knot theory; Deep learning and reinforcement learning, applied to mathematical problems

Dr Lisa Voigt

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Astrostatistics; cosmology; weak lensing; machine learning in cosmology; data science

Professor Spyridon Vrontos

Head of Department - Professor (R), School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Actuarial Mathematics and Actuarial Modelling; Design of Optimal Bonus &ndash Malus Systems; Asset - Liability Management for Pension Funds; Performance Measurement for Pension Funds, Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds; Predictability of Financial Time Series; Risk Management and Solvency; Risk Theory

Professor Gerald Williams

Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Groups defined in terms of graphs; Circulant matrices and graphs; Cyclically presented groups

Dr Jackie Wong Siaw Tze

Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Mortality modelling and forecasting; Bayesian computational statistics; Bayesian model comparison; Estimation of marginal likelihoods (bridge sampling); Machine learning in actuarial science

Professor Xinan Yang

Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Stochastic Optimization and its applications in Logistics, Telecommunications, Revenue Management and Energy.; Stochastic Optimization and Markov Decision Process (MDP); Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) and Reinforcement Learning; Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and solution approaches

Dr Na You

Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Research interests: Statistical divergence for survival analysis; Survival regression

Dr Kareemah Chopra

Senior Research Officer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Dr Robert Hanson

Senior Research Officer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Dr Shirsho Mukherjee

Senior Research Officer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Dr Alexandros Vasilopoulos

Senior Research Officer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Oluwatayo Akindolie

Language Modelling Engineer (KTP Associate), School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Fernanda Hinze Medina

Data Scientist (KTP Associate), School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Dr Yasmin Jaaron

Mathematical Optimisation Research Officer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Buddhika Kiththangoda Gamage

Research Associate (KTP Associate), School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)

Professor John Dowden

Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science

Research interests: Heat and mass transfer processes occurring in laser materials processing, in medicine and in geophysics.

Professor David Fremlin

Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science