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The next book to be read in the Statistics Reading Group will be Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence and Data Science by Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie. The book delivers a masterful synthesis of classical statistical inference and modern computational methods, tracing their evolution over the past 60 years. Insightful, rigorous, and historically grounded, it is essential reading to understand the theoretical foundations and algorithmic developments shaping today’s data science.
Diego Serrano has obtained the best poster award in the International Workshop on Functional and Operatorial Statistics (IWFOS) held in Novara (Italy) from 25th to 27th June 2025. IWFOS is the leading international conference on functional data analysis.
The paper “A family of toroidal diffusions with exact likelihood inference”, coauthored by Eduardo García-Portugués and Michael Sørensen, has been accepted for publication in the renowned Biometrika! The preprint can be checked on the arXiv.
Diego Serrano has obtained the first award in the Thesis Talk 2025 contest organized by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The Thesis Talk is a challenging competition for PhD students to present their research in a 4-minute talk to a general audience, with the goal of making complex topics accessible and engaging.
The paper “Kernel density estimation for polyspherical data and its applications”, coauthored by Eduardo García-Portugués and Andrea Meilán-Vila, has been accepted for publication in the renowned Journal of the American Statistical Association! The preprint can be checked on the arXiv.
Diego Serrano has obtained the competitive PhD grant “PIPF Programa “Inteligencia Artificial”” from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Andrea Meilán-Vila has been promoted to Senior Assistant Professor (Personal Investigador Doctor)! The promotion was achieved from the public call announced by UC3M’s Resolution of November 5, 2024.
Paul Axmann joins NICDA through a PhD grant within the ‘Stein-based goodness-of-fit TEsts for Non-Euclidean Data’ (STENED) project! Paul will officially start his PhD at the Department of Mathematics of Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in February 2025.
