Richard Samworth

Richard John Samworth
Born	May 1978 (age 46)
Residence	Cambridge, United Kingdom
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge
Thesis	Some mathematical and theoretical aspects of the bootstrap (2004)
Doctoral advisor	Alastair Young

Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is a Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is Associate Editor of Annals of Statistics and Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series B, and also has been Associate Editor of Biometrika and Statistica Sinica.

He was educated at the 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)
• The Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election)
• The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society
• The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society

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. Statist., 36, 2135–2152

External links

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