Richard Samworth Explained

Richard John Samworth
Field:	Statistics
Work Institutions:	University of Cambridge
Alma Mater:	St John's College, Cambridge
Doctoral Advisor:	Alastair Young
Thesis Title:	Some mathematical and theoretical aspects of the bootstrap
Thesis Year:	2004
Thesis Url:	http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~rjs57/Thesis.pdf

Richard John Samworth ^[1] (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge,^[2] and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. His main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density estimation and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.

Honours and awards

• Rustagi Memorial Lecture (2021), The Ohio State University^[3]
• Fellow, Royal Society (2021 election)^[1]
• The COPSS Presidents' Award 2018^[4]
• IMS Medallion Lecture 2018 ^[5]
• The Adams Prize 2017^[6]
• Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election)^[7]
• Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust^[8]
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election)^[9]
• The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society^[10]
• The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society^[11]

Selected works

• 10.1111/rssb.12228. Random-projection ensemble classification. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology). 79. 4. 959–1035. 2017. Cannings. Timothy I.. Samworth. Richard J.. free. 1504.04595.
• 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00753.x. Maximum likelihood estimation of a multi-dimensional log-concave density. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology). 72. 5. 545–607. 2010. Cule. Madeleine. Samworth. Richard. Stewart. Michael. 0804.3989. 1524045.
• Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038.
• 10.1214/07-AOS537. Choice of neighbor order in nearest-neighbor classification. The Annals of Statistics. 36. 5. 2135–2152. 2008. Hall. Peter. Park. Byeong U.. Samworth. Richard J.. 0810.5276. free.

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Richard Samworth FRS. Royal Society. royalsociety.org. 2021.
2. Web site: Richard Samworth Official web page at Cambridge . statslab.cam.ac.uk. 21 June 2016.
3. Web site: Rustagi Memorial Lecture | Department of Statistics.
4. Web site: ASA Community.
5. Web site: Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Medallion lecture previews: Richard Samworth, Thomas Mikosch.
6. Web site: Adams Prize winners 2016–17 announced | Adams Prize.
7. Web site: ASA Newsroom.
8. http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/templates/asset-relay.cfm?frmAssetFileID=1733
9. Web site: IMS Fellows 2014 « IMS Bulletin. bulletin.imstat.org. 21 June 2016.
10. Web site: Account Suspended. rssenews.org.uk. 21 June 2016.
11. Web site: The Royal Statistical Society . 16 May 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120317045440/http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=479 . 17 March 2012 .