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Past PhD students

The Department of Statistics is proud to list a selection of its past doctoral research students who have successfully completed their PhD.

Statistics is enduringly and increasingly important for making sense of the enormous amounts of data in today’s world

Past PhD Students from 1966 to the present day

2023

Patrick Aschermayr
Principal Supervisor: Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Thesis: Bayesian Inference on State Space Models

Camilo Cárdenas Hurtado
Principal Supervisor: Irini Moustaki
Thesis: 

Zezhun Chen
Principal Supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Gianluca Giudice
Principal Supervisor: Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Thesis: 

Yirui Liu
Principal Supervisor: Qiwei Yao
Thesis: Three Essays in Bayesian Nonparametric Machine Learning. 

Filippo Pellegrino
Principal Supervisor: Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Thesis: 

Ragvir Sabharwal
Principal Supervisor: Irini Moustaki
Thesis: 

Jing Han Tee
Principal Supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Jialin Yi
Principal Supervisor: Milan Vojnovic
Thesis: 

Kaifang Zhou
Principal Supervisor: Milan Vojnovic
Thesis:  

2022

Rico Blaser
Principal Supervisor: Piotr Fryzlewicz
Thesis: 

Cheng Chen
Principal Supervisor: Xinghao Qiao
Thesis: 

Tomasz Dubiel-Teleszynski                                                            Principal Supervisor: Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Thesis: Bayesian Sequential Inference and Machine Learning Applied to Yield Curve Forecasting

Qin Fang                                                                              
Principal Supervisor: Xinghao Qiao
Thesis: High-dimensional functional data/time series: finite-sample theory, adaptive functional thresholding and prediction

Anica Kostic                                                                          
Principal Supervisor: Piotr Fryzlewicz
Thesis: On change-point perspectives in multiple testing and weak signal inference

Yan Lu                                                                              
Principal Supervisor: Irini Moustaki   
Thesis: 

Despoina Makariou
Principal Supervisor: Pauline Barrieu
Thesis: 

Alexandra Tsimbalyuk
Principal Supervisor: Kostas Kardaras
Thesis: 

Konstantinos Vamvourellis 
Principal Supervisor: Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Thesis: 

Yiliu Wang                                                                      
Principal Supervisor: Milan Vojnovic
Thesis: 

Tianlin Xu
Principal Supervisor: Wicher Bergsma
Thesis: 

2021

Quoc Viet Dang
Principal supervisor:  Hao Xing
Thesis: 

Davide De Santis
Principal supervisor:  Luciano Campi
Thesis: 

Reinhard Fellmann
Principal supervisor:  Erik Baurdoux
Thesis: 

Jose Manuel Pedraza Ramirez
Principal supervisor:  Erik Baurdoux
Thesis: 

Alice Pignatelli di Cerchiara
Principal supervisor:  Erik Baurdoux
Thesis: 

Lok Ting (Christine) Yuen
Principal supervisor:  Piotr Fryzlewicz
Thesis: 

Junyi Zhang
Principal supervisor:  Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

2020

Xiaolin Zhu
Principal supervisor:  Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

2019

Andy Ho
Principal supervisor:  Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Luting Li
Principal supervisor:  Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Hye Young Maeng
Principal supervisor:  Piotr Fryzlewicz
Thesis:  

Cheng Qian
Principal supervisor:  Clifford Lam
Thesis: 

Yan Qu
Principal supervisor:  Angelos Dassios
Thesis

Georgios Vichos
Principal supervisor:  Kostas Kardaras
Thesis: 

Diego Zabaljauregui
Principal supervisor: Luciano Campi
Thesis:    

2018

Phoenix Feng
Principal supervisor:  Clifford Lam
Thesis: 

Haziq Jamil
Principal supervisor:  Wicher Bergsma
Thesis: 

Shiju Liu
Principal supervisor:  Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Ewelina Sienkiewicz 
Principal supervisor:  Leonard Smith
Thesis: 

Yajing Zhu
Principal supervisor:  Fiona Steele
Thesis: 

2017

Ali Habibnia
Principal supervisor:  Matteo Barigozzi
Thesis: 

Tayfun Terzi
Principal supervisor:  Chris Skinner
Thesis: 

Ed Wheatcroft
Principal supervisor:  Leonard Smith
Thesis: 

2016

Rafal Baranowski
Principal supervisor:  Piotr Fryzlewicz
Thesis: 

Na Huang
Principal supervisor:  Piotr Fryzlewicz
Thesis:  

Cheng Li
Principal supervisor: Hao Xing
Thesis: 

Trevor Maynard
Principal supervsior: Leonard Smith
Thesis: 

Anna Louise Schroeder
Principal supervisor: Piotr Fryzlewicz
Thesis: 

2015

Baojun Dou
Principal supervsior: Qiwei Yao
Thesis: 

Mai Hafez
Principal supervisor: Irini Moustaki
Thesis: 

Sarah Higgins
Principal supervisor: Leonard Smith
Thesis: 

Malvina Marchese
Principal supervisor: Qiwei Yao
Thesis: 

Youyou Zhang
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

2014

Zhanyu Chen
Principal supervisors: Thorsten Rheinlander and Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Yehuda Dayan
Principal supervisor: Jouni Kuha
Thesis: 

Alex Jarman
Principal supervisor: Leonard Smith
Thesis: 

Karolos Korkas
Principal supervisor: Piotr Fryzlewicz
Thesis: 

Jia Wei Lim
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Filippo Riccardi
Principal supervisors: Thorsten Rheinlander and Angelos Dassios
Thesis:  (MPhil)

Yang Yan
Principal supervisor: Qiwei Yao
Thesis: 

2013

Joseph Dureau
Principal supervisor: Kostas Kalogeropoulos 
Thesis: 

Ilya Sheynzon
Principal supervisor: Umut Cetin
Thesis: 

2012

Daniel Bruynooghe
Principal supervisor: Henry Wynn
Thesis: 

Xiaonan Che
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Flavia Giammarino
Principal supervisor: Pauline Barrieu
Thesis: 

Sujin Park
Principal supervisor: Oliver Linton
Thesis: 

Yu Ren
Principal supervisors: Henry Wynn and Wicher Bergsma
Thesis: 

Roy Rosemarin
Principal supervisor: Qiwei Yao
Thesis: 

Billy Wu
Principle supervisor: Qiwei Yao
Thesis:  (MPhil)

Hongbiao Zhao
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

2011

Dan Chen
Principal supervisor: Thorsten Rheinlander
Thesis: 

Haeran Cho
Principal supervisor: Piotr Fryzlewicz
Thesis: 

Sandrine Tobelem
Principal supervisor: Pauline Barrieu
Thesis: 

Noha Youssef
Principal supervisor: Henry Wynn
Thesis: 

2010

James Spencer Abdey
Principal supervisor: Irini Moustaki
Thesis: 

Neil Bathia
Principal supervisor: Qiwei Yao
Thesis: 

Sarah Haider
Principal supervisor: Henry Wynn
Thesis: 

Takeshi Yamada
Principal supervisors: Angelos Dassios and Umut Cetin
Thesis: 

2009

Anna Andrianova
Principal supervisor: Leonard Smith 
Thesis: 

Hailiang Du
Principal supervisor: Leonard Smith
Thesis: 

Diego Jimenez-Huerta
Principal supervisor: Ragnar Norberg
Thesis: 

Young Lee
Principal supervisor: Thorsten Rheinlander
Thesis: 

Miltiadis C. Mavrakakis
Principal supervisor: Qiwei Yao and Jeremy Penzer
Thesis: 

Edward Tredger
Principal supervisor: Leonard Smith
Thesis: 

Shanle Wu
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

2008

Adrian Urs Gfeller
Principal supervisor: Ragnar Norberg
Thesis: 

Oksana Yurievna Savina
Principal supervisor: Ragnar Norberg
Thesis: 

Christopher Strom
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Limin Wang
Principal supervisor: Henry Wynn
Thesis: 

2007

Berna Burcak Basbug
Principal supervisor: Henry Wynn
Thesis: 

Dario Ciraki
Principal supervisor: Martin Knott
Thesis: 

Milena Clarissa Cuéllar Sánchez
Principal supervisor: Leonard Smith
Thesis: 

2006

Chrysoula Dimitriou-Fakalou
Principal supervisor: Qiwei Yao
Thesis: 

Georgios Tripodis
Principal supervisor: Jeremy Penzer
Thesis: 

2005

Stefan Markus Kassberger
Principal supervisors: Ruediger Kiesel and Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Shaoul Nathan
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

2004

Panagiotis Avramidis
Principal supervisor: Qiwei Yao
Thesis: 

Theophilus Harry Samuel Boafo-Yirenkyi
Principal supervisors: Ruediger Kiesel and Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Simona Costanzo
Principal supervisor: Anthony Atkinson
Thesis: 

Maria Teresa Catarino Leitao
Principal supervisor: Jeremy Penzer
Thesis: 

Jayalaxshmi Nagaradjasarma
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

2001

Agnès Marie Estibals
Principal supervisor: Celia Phillips
Thesis: 

Yoshihiko Nishiyama
Principal supervisor: Martin Knott
Thesis: 

2000

Philip Tak Kay Chan
Principal supervisor: Martin Knott
Thesis: 

Colm Aongus O'Muircheartaigh
Principal supervisor: David Bartholomew
Thesis: 

1999

Sankarshan Basu
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

Pamela Comber Campanelli
Principal supervisor: Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh
Thesis: 

Mbolaji Lateef Oladejo
Principal supervisor: Celia Phillips
Thesis: 

Panagiota Tzamourani
Principal supervisor: Martin Knott
Thesis: 

1998

Tsung-Chi Cheng
Principal supervisor: Anthony Atkinson
Thesis: 

H. M. Waisul Islam
Principal supervisor: Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh
Thesis: 

Ji-Wook Jang
Principal supervisor: Angelos Dassios
Thesis: 

1996

Irini Moustaki
Principal supervisor: Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh
Thesis: 

Siem Jan Koopman
Principal supervisor: Andrew Harvey
Award: PhD
Thesis: 

1992

Antonio Carlos Monteiro Ponce De Leon
Thesis: Principal supervisor: Anthony Atkinson

Esther Ruiz-Ortega
Principal supervisor: Andrew Harvey
Thesis: 

1991

Leila Fuad Aboulela
Principal supervisor: David Bartholomew
Thesis: 

Mariane Streibel
Principal supervisor: Andrew Harvey
Thesis: 

1990

Maria-Theresinha Albanese
Principal supervisor: Martin Knott
Thesis: 

Ilias Kevork
Principal supervisor: David Balmer
Thesis: 

Tan Hwee Kwan
Principal supervisor: Andrew Harvey
Thesis: 

Pablo Marshall-Rivera
Principal supervisor: Andrew Harvey
Thesis: 

Ham-Mukasa Mulira
Principal supervisor: Anthony Atkinson
Thesis: 

1989

Harilaos Lambropoulos
Principal supervisor: Celia Phillips
Thesis: 

Neil Graeme Shephard
Principal supervisor: Andrew Harvey
Thesis: 

1987

Cristiano Augusto Coelho Fernandes
Principal supervisor: Andrew Harvey
Thesis: 

Richard Donovan Wiggins
Principal supervisor: Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh
Thesis: 

1986

Jandyra Maria Guimarães Fachel
Principal supervisor: David Bartholomew
Thesis: 

Francisco Javier Fernandez Macho
Principal supervisor: Andrew Harvey
Thesis: 

Wilson Thinwa Wamani
Principal supervisor: David Bartholomew
Thesis: 

1984

Ghali Abdellaoui-Maan
Principal supervisor: David Bartholomew
Thesis: 

Peter Douglas Congdon
Principal supervisors: David Bartholomew and Celia Phillips
Thesis: 

Catherine Michalopoulou
Principal supervisor: Martin Knott
Thesis: 

1983

Aglaia Kalamatianou
Principal supervisor: David Bartholomew
Thesis: 

1982

Juan Carlos Abril
Principal supervisor: Oscar Eduardo 
Thesis: 

Hernandez-Rodriguez
Thesis: 

1980

Christos C. Frangos
Principal supervisor: David Balmer
Thesis: 

Cristina Sernadas
Principal supervisor: David Bartholomew
Thesis:  Multivariate Branching Processes

1976

Mohamed Nuruzzaman
Principal supervisor: Celia Phillips
Thesis: 

1970

Eleftkerios G. Charatsis
Thesis: 

1967

Celia Mary Phillips
Principal supervisor: Claus Moser
Thesis: 

1966

Martin Knott
Principal supervisor: Alan Stuart
Thesis: