Chris Oates
I lead a team working in the areas of Computational Statistics and Probabilistic Machine Learning at Newcastle University in the UK.
Recent News
- New monograph: Probabilistic Inference and Learning with Stein's Method
- I am proud to have supervised the ISBA Savage Award winner!
- New podcast: The Indecisive Statistician, on the Numberphile podcast.
- New video: Stein's Paradox, on the Numberphile channel.
- For 2025-2028 I am serving on the Programme Committee of the ICMS.
- For 2025-2027 I am serving as an Associate Editor of the SIAM/ASA Journal of Uncertainty Quantification.
- New book: Scalable Monte Carlo for Bayesian Learning
- I am delighted to be awarded the Guy Medal in Bronze from the Royal Statistical Society!
- I have been awarded a Leverhulme Prize, which will support the team's activities in 2024-2027.
Current Group Members
- Wafa M Alahmari (2025-2029) PhD candidate in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, supported by Saudi Arabia. (Co-supervised by Dr. Matthew Fisher.)
- Yinghan Li (2025-2028) PhD candidate in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University. (Co-supervised by Dr. Matthew Fisher.)
- Juntao Chen (2026-2029) PhD candidate in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, supported by the China Scholarship Council. (2025-2026) MPhil candidate in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University. (Co-supervised by Dr. Markus Rau.)
- Quinne Lin (2025-2030) PhD candidate in the School of Computing, Newcastle University. (Co-supervised by Dr. Jichun Li and Dr. Stephen McGough.)
- Qingyang Liu (2024-2027) PhD candidate in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, supported by the China Scholarship Council. (Co-supervised by Dr. Matthew Fisher.)
- Huihui Wang (2024-2028) PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematics, King's College London, UK. (Co-supervised by Dr. Marina Riabiz.)
- Mengxin Xi (2023-2027) PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematics, King's College London, UK. (Co-supervised by Dr. Marina Riabiz.)
- Carrow Morris-Wiltshire (2022-2026) PhD candidate in the Geospatial Systems CDT, Newcastle University, supported by EPSRC. (Co-supervised by Prof. Stuart Barr.)
Former Group Members
- Zheyang Shen (2023-2026) Postdoctoral researcher in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, supported by EPSRC.
- Congye Wang (2022-2026) PhD candidate in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, supported by the China Scholarship Council. (Co-supervised by Dr. Matthew Fisher.) (Joined Lancaster University as a Senior Research Associate in 2026.)
- Aidan Mullins (2022-2026) PhD candidate in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University. (Co-supervised by Dr. Markus Rau.)
- Heishiro Kanagawa (2022-2025) Postdoctoral researcher in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, supported by EPSRC. (Joined Fujitsu as a Research Scientist in 2025.)
- Marina Strocchi (2021-2025) Postdoctoral researcher on a BHF Programme Grant, joint with Imperial College London, UK. (Co-supervised by Prof. Steven Niederer and Prof. Richard Wilkinson.) (Joined Medtronic as a Senior Computational Modelling Engineer in 2025.)
- Takuo Matsubara (2019-2023) PhD candidate in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, joint with the Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. (Joined the University of Edinburgh on a William Gordon Seggie Brown Research Fellowship in 2023.)
- Matthew Fisher (2021-2022) UKRI Mathematical Sciences Fellow in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, UK. (Joined Newcastle University as a Lecturer in Statistics in 2022.)
- Onur Teymur (2020-2021) Postdoctoral researcher in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, joint with the Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. (Joined the University of Kent as a Lecturer in Statistics in 2021.)
- Toni Karvonen (2020-2021) Postdoctoral researcher at the Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. (Joined the University of Helsinki on an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2021.)
- Matt Graham (2020-2021) Postdoctoral researcher in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, joint with the Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. (Joined University College London in 2021.)
- Liam Fleming (2019-2022) PhD candidate in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, joint with the Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. (Joined Johnson Matthey in 2022.)
- Marina Riabiz (2018-2021) Postdoctoral researcher on a BHF-Turing Cardiovascular Data Science Award, joint with King's College London and the Alan Turing Institute, London UK. (Joined the Statistics group at King's College London as a Lecturer in 2021.)
- Junyang Wang (2017-2021) PhD candidate in the EPSRC Cloud Computing CDT. (Joined Imperial College London as a postdoc in 2021.)