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.. date: 2015-01-25 21:53:39 UTC
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I'm a Professor of Mathematical Sciences in the `Department of Mathematics
`__ at the `University of Manchester
`__.
My work focuses on Mathematical Epidemiology, which is an exciting field that
draws on various areas of the mathematical sciences. During the COVID-19
pandemic, I have mainly been putting this expertise at the service of the
`Government
`__,
`ONS
`__,
and `NHS `__, making any
statement of other research interests a bit moot. Nevertheless,
I am currently particularly interested in efficient statistical inference for
these problems, complex data including networks and associated theory,
numerical probability, inverse problems, and model simplification.
Much of the support for COVID-19 work came via the UKRI-funded `JUNIPER
Consortium `__.
I was recently funded by the `Royal Society
Industry
`__
scheme `IBM Research
`__ locally, thinking about how we can make
better use of modern computing architectures to solve complex inferential and
modelling problems.
I was a Fellow of the `Alan Turing Institute `__ and
led the "Turing @ Manchester: Patient Subgroup Discovery" project. I am also
grateful for past and current funding from `EPSRC
`__.
I support development of open-source, modular software for epidemic modelling
and in science more generally.