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Nial Friel is a Full Professor of Statistics at University College Dublin. He was awarded a PhD in 1999 from the University of Glasgow. Following postdocs at Queensland University of Technology, University of Cambridge, Athens University of Economics and Business, he joined the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 2002 and was promoted to Reader in 2006. In 2007 he was appointed as a Professor of Statistics at University College Dublin until being promoted to Full Professor of Statistics in 2014, a position which he currently holds. His research interests are in Bayesian Statistics, network analysis, Monte Carlo methods. He served as Joint Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B from 2019 to 2022.
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Yi Yu 于怡 is Professor in Statistics and the Deputy Head of Department (Research) in the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. She is interested in various aspects of high-dimensional and nonparametric statistics, with a recent interest in trustworthy AI related problems. She has worked in high-dimensional regression, differential privacy, change point analysis, statistical network analysis, nonparametric statistics and functional data analysis.
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Céline Cunen is a researcher at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) at the Oslo University Hospital. There she works on a variety of topics within methodological and applied statistics, including clinical trials. She also holds a part-time position at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) where she does research on the evaluation of conflict forecasts. She received her PhD in statistics from the University of Oslo in 2018.
Alice Corbella is an Assistant Professor in Applied Statistics at the University of Warwick. Her research centres on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, with a particular focus on Zig-Zag sampling and its application to Bayesian inference of infectious disease dynamics from epidemic data.