Richard Samworth
Richard John Samworth is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 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
- The COPSS Presidents' Award 2018
- IMS Medallion Lecture 2018
- The Adams Prize 2017
- Fellow, American Statistical Association
- Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society
- The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistica Society
Selected works
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- Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y., Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013-2038.
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