Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the

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of the

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, and a Teaching Fellow of

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. He was educated at

. His main research interests are in nonparametric and

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. Particular topics include shape-constrained density estimation and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric

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, clustering and

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, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.

Honours and awards

* Rustagi Memorial Lecture (2021), The Ohio State University * Fellow,

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(2021 election) * The

COPSS Presidents' Award The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The COPSS Presidents' Award is generally ...

2018 *

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Medallion Lecture 2018 * The Adams Prize 2017 * Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election) *

Philip Leverhulme Prize The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize schem ...

2014, Leverhulme Trust * Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election) *The

Guy Medal The Guy Medals are awarded by the Royal Statistical Society in three categories; Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Silver and Bronze medals are awarded annually. The Gold Medal was awarded every three years between 1987 and 2011, but is awarded biennia ...

in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society *The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society

Selected works

* * * Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038. *

References

External links

* Richard Samworth'
home page
at the University of Cambridge. {{DEFAULTSORT:Samworth, Richard Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge English statisticians Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Cambridge mathematicians Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Living people 1978 births Professors of the University of Cambridge Annals of Statistics editors