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Career

· Professor Of Probability And Statistical Physics, University of Portsmouth2025–
· Reader In Probability And Statistical Physics, University of Portsmouth2019–2025
· Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth2012–2019
· Mathematics Teacher, The Portsmouth Grammar School2009–2011
· Graduate Teacher Program, Physics, St Olave's Grammar School2008–2009
· Quant, Royal Bank of Scotland Business2005–2008
· Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistical Physics, University of Cambridge2001–2004
· Part III Mathematics (MAst), Mathematics, University of Cambridge2000–2001
· Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, First Class (Seymour Prize), University of Warwick1997–2000

Publications (125)

A useful variant of the Davis--Kahan theorem for statisticians
2014
634
cited
Screening of healthcare workers for SARS-CoV-2 highlights the role of asymptomatic carriage in COVID-19 transmission
medRxiv · 2020
511
cited
Ultrahigh Dimensional Feature Selection: Beyond The Linear Model
Journal of machine learning research · 2009
481
cited
Variable selection with error control: another look at stability selection
2011
377
cited
Sure independence screening for ultrahigh dimensional feature space Discussion
2008
351
cited
Choice of neighbor order in nearest-neighbor classification
2008
330
cited
Optimal weighted nearest neighbour classifiers
2011
288
cited
High dimensional change point estimation via sparse projection
2016
257
cited
Maximum likelihood estimation of a multi‐dimensional log‐concave density
2008
206
cited
Neogene overflow of Northern Component Water at the Greenland‐Scotland Ridge
2006
174
cited
Random‐projection ensemble classification
2015
167
cited
The conditional permutation test for independence while controlling for confounders
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 2018
142
cited
Statistical and computational trade-offs in estimation of sparse principal components
2014
137
cited
Efficient multivariate entropy estimation via $k$-nearest neighbour distances
Annals of Statistics · 2016
135
cited
Robust inference with knockoffs
Annals of Statistics · 2018
129
cited
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma classification system that associates normal B-cell subset phenotypes with prognosis.
Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2015
116
cited
Theoretical properties of the log-concave maximum likelihood estimator of a multidimensional density
2009
114
cited
Nonparametric independence testing via mutual information
Biometrika · 2017
110
cited
A unifying tutorial on Approximate Message Passing
Found. Trends Mach. Learn. · 2021
109
cited
Global rates of convergence in log-concave density estimation
2014
106
cited
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