Paul Fearnhead
British statistician, University of Lancaster
Paul Fearnhead is the Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is a researcher in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods. His interests include changepoint analysis, sampling theory and genetics – he has published several papers working on the epidemiology of campylobacter by looking at recombination events in a large sample of genomes. Since January 2018 he has been the editor of Biometrika.
Awards
Fearnhead won the Adams Prize in 2007.
In 2007 he also won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society.
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