Background
I am an associate professor in statistics at University College Dublin since 2007, and am currently head of the statistics and actuarial science group. Prior to this I was a lecturer and then a reader at the Department of Statistics at the University of Glasgow. I have also been employed as a research associate at Queensland University of Technology, University of Cambridge and at Athens University of Economics and Business, following the award of my PhD from the University of Glasgow.
My UCD research portal webpage.
Research interests
My research interests include:
- Statistical network analysis -- Bayesian inference for statistical network models; applications in social network analysis.
- Spatial statistics -- especially statistical inference for hidden Markov random field models.
- Bayesian statistics -- model selection; Bayes factors; marginal likelihood calculations.
- Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and applications.
Editorial activities
- 2006 -- present: Associate editor for Statistics and Computing.
- Senior program committee member of AISTATS 2012.
- 2006 -- 2011: Member of the research section of the Royal Statistical Society.
Talks and seminars
- March 22, 2012: Seminar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
- April 16-19, 2012: Confronting intractability in statistical inference, Bristol.
- April 23-25, 2012: Advances in Markov chain Monte Carlo ICMS, Edinburgh.
- May 21-23, 2012: Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
- June 13-15, 2012: IMS/ASA Spring research conference, Harvard.
- December 1-3, 2012: Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing and Statistics , Oviedo, Spain.
- December 9-12, 2012: Winter simulation conference, Berlin.
Teaching
I am currently teaching:- Actuarial Statistics I (STAT40020).
- Monte Carlo inference (STAT40400)
- Stochastic Models (STAT30090)