Richard Samworth
Introduction '''Richard John Samworth'''  (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. His main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density estimation and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.
Honours and awards * Rustagi Memorial Lecture (2021), The Ohio State University* Fellow, Royal Society (2021 election)* The COPSS Presidents' Award 2018* IMS Medallion Lecture 2018 * The Adams Prize 2017* Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election)* Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust* Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election)*The Guy Medal 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's  home page at the University of Cambridge.