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: Harmonic Analysis; Geometric Measure Theory; Potential Theory; Partial Differential Equations; Linear and Non-Linear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

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 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 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 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 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 recursive 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; Tensors and multiway data analysis

Dr Junlei Hu

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

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; Formalisation and automated theorem proving

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 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 Igor Rodionov

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

Research interests: Statistics of extremes; Extreme value theory

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

Dr Alexei Vernitski

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

Research interests: Applying algebra (for example, group theory) to study knots and braids; Mathematical education; Machine learning in mathematics; reinforcement learning applied to knot theory; Deep learning and reinforcement learning, applied to mathematical problems

Professor Spyridon Vrontos

Professor, 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

Head of School - Professor (R), 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 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)

Dragos-Cristian Gruia

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

Buddhika Kiththangoda Gamage

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

Prachi Prachi

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

Mohanna Torkashvand

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

Dr Yurun Yang

Fintech Data Scientist (Machine Learning Engineer, 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

Prof Peter Higgins

Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science

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

Prof Berthold Lausen

Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science

Prof Abdellah Salhi

Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science

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