Richard Samworth

Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is a Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge,^[1] and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Currently, his main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.

Honours and Awards

• Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election)^[2]
• The Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust ^[3]
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election)^[4]
• The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society^[5]
• The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society^[6]

Selected works

• Cule, M. L., Samworth, R. J. and Stewart, M. I. (2010), Maximum likelihood estimation of a multidimensional log-concave density, J. Roy. Statist. Soc., Ser. B. (with discussion), to appear.
• Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, J. Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038.
• Hall, P., Park, B. U. and Samworth, R. J. (2008), Choice of neighbour order in nearest-neighbour classification, Ann. Stat., 36, 2135–2152

References

External links

• Richard Samworth's home page at the University of Cambridge.