Our PhD graduates

We are proud of our many wonderful PhD graduates who are working in many places within academia and beyond. Here are the most recent ones.

• Asma Farid (graduated 2022)
  Thesis: Analysis of Computer Experiments with Smooth Emulators
  Supervisor: Hugo Maruri-Aguilar
  Currently: Statistician, Siemens Healthineers 
  
  
• Marco Gramatica (graduated 2022)
  Thesis: Bayesian Spatial Modelling of Misaligned Data
  Supervisor: Silvia Liverani
  Currently: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL

• Shaoxiong Hu (graduated 2019)
  Thesis: Algebraic techniques for statistical model selection
  Supervisor: Hugo Maruri-Aguilar
  Currently: AI Researcher at Alibaba, DRC

• Ayon Mukherjee (graduated 2019)
  Thesis: Covariate-adjusted response-adaptive designs for clinical trials
  Supervisor: Steve Coad
  Currently: Principal Biostatistician at Clinipace, Germany

• Bairu Zhang (graduated 2018)
  Thesis: Functional Data Analysis in Orthogonal Designs with Applications to Gait Patterns
  Supervisor: Heiko Grossmann and Dylan Morrisey
  Currently: Senior Statistician at AstraZeneca

• Peter Curtis (graduated 2017)
  Thesis: Smooth supersaturated models for computer experiments
  Supervisor: Hugo Maruri-Aguilar
  Currently:

• Wenyu Liu (graduated 2017)
  Thesis: Group-sequential response-adaptive designs for comparing several treatments
  Supervisor: Steve Coad
  Currently: Senior Biostatistician at University of Birmingham

• Kabir Soeny (graduated 2017)
  Thesis: Pharmacometrically driven optimisation of dose regimens in clinical trials
  Supervisor: Barbara Bogacka and Byron Jones
  Currently: Senior Manager at Bain & Company

• Rebecca Lodwick (graduated 2016)
  Thesis: Crossover designs: issues in construction, use, and communication
  Supervisor: Rosemary Bailey
  Currently: Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Portsmouth

• Muhammad Iftakhar Alam (graduated 2016)
  Thesis: Optimal adaptive designs for dose finding in early phase clinical trials
  Supervisor: Steve Coad and Barbara Bogacka
  Currently: Associate Professor at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Lutfor Rahman (graduated 2014)
  Thesis: Bayesian Analysis of Multi-Stratum Designs and Probability-based Optimal Designs with Separation
  Supervisor: Steven Gilmour and Lawrence Pettit
  Currently: Professor, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Mitra Noosha (graduated 2014)
  Thesis: Mixtures of Conjugate Priors for Measuring Discordancy and Making Robust Inferences
  Supervisor: Lawrence Pettit
  Currently: Senior Data Scientist at PayPal

• Oleg Volkov (graduated 2014)
  Thesis: Optimal relaxed designs of experiments, with pharmaceutical applications.
  Supervisor: Barbara Bogacka
  Currently: Director at XITIFIC Ltd.

• Wai Yin Yeung (graduated 2013)
  Thesis: Inference following biased coin designs in clinical trials
  Supervisor: Steve Coad
  Currently: Senior Statistical Scientist at Roche

• Saiful Islam (graduated 2011)
  Thesis: Loss functions, utility functions and Bayesian sample size determination
  Supervisor: Lawrence Pettit
  Currently: Lecturer (Teaching) in Medical Statistics at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology