Conference Speakers
Professor Sofia Olhede (University College London)
Sofia Olhede is director of UCL’s Centre for Data Science, a professor of Statistics, an honorary professor of Computer Science, and a member of both the London Mathematical Society research Meetings Committee and the London Mathematical Society Research Policy Committee. She has contributed extensively to the study of stochastic processes; time series, random fields and networks. Further to her methodological interests, Sofia also has an interest in how data and algorithms are impacting our daily lives. She serves on a Law Society Public Policy Commission on Algorithms in the Justice system and has previously been part of the Royal Society committee on Machine Learning, as well as the British Academy and Royal Society committee on data governance.
Professor Wilfrid Kendall (University of Warwick)
Wilfrid Kendall is a professor in the Statistics department at the University of Warwick, served as President of the Bernoulli Society, and was founding co-director of the APTS scheme for training first-year UK Statistics students. Wilfrid has made substantial contributions to the field of probability theory, and include: random processes, stochastic geometry, stochastic calculus, computer algebra in statistics and probability, and perfect simulation.
Dr Stefanie Biedermann (University of Southampton)
Stefanie Biedermann holds an associate professor position within Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton, whose research focuses on enabling researchers in Medicine and Science to draw accurate conclusions from their experiments. She has published prolifically to address optimal designs for broad classes of statistical models, however her recent interest in informative censoring in survival analysis has led to her being awarded a grant by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to develop new modelling approaches for sensitivity analyses.