2018 – 2019 Editor for a Special Issue of Statistics and Computing on Probabilistic Numerics.
Funding
2025 – 2026 Co-investigator on UKRI HPC for "Diffusion Modelling Under the Lens of Markov Diffusion Processes" (15,000 GPUh on Bede; APP80558). (Led by Marina Riabiz @ KCL.)
2024 – 2026 Turing Fellowship, the Alan Turing Institute, UK.
2024 – 2027 Leverhulme Prize (Mathematics and Statistics, 2023; 100,000 GBP). The Leverhulme Trust.
2024 Principal Investigator on "Mathematical Foundations for the Next Generation of Extrapolation Methods" (4,950 GBP). Heilbronn Institute Small Grant.
2023 Co-Investigator on Probabilistic Numerics Network Grant (20,000 GBP). Isaac Newton Institute. (Led by Jon Cockayne @ Southampton.)
2022 – 2028 Co-Investigator on "NUData", an STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science (1,086,584 GBP). STFC (ST/W006790/1). (Led by James McLaughlin @ Northumbria and Tamara Rogers @ NU.)
2022 – 2026 Principal Investigator on "Harnessing the Power of Stein Discrepancies in Bayesian Computation" (704,773 GBP). EPSRC (EP/W019590/1).
2021 – 2024 Co-Investigator on "Measuring and Modelling Atrial Mechanics in Health and Heart Failure" (315,477 GBP). British Heart Foundation (PG/21/10534). (Led by Steven Niederer @ Imperial).
2020 Principal Investigator on "Probabilistic Approaches to Numerical Computation" (6,300 GBP). Heilbronn Institute Focused Research Grant.
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2020 Co-Investigator on "Modelling the Heart's Chemical Signals" (27,000 USD). Alan Turing Institute Azure Funding. (Led by Steven Niederer @ KCL).
2020 – 2025 Co-Investigator on "Selecting Rhythm or Rate Control in Patients with both Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure" (691,686 GBP). British Heart Foundation Programme Grant (RG/20/4/34803). (Led by Steven Niederer @ KCL).
2020 – 2022 Co-Investigator on "Advances in Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Bayesian Models" (390,000 AUD). Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP200102101). (Led by Chris Drovandi @ QUT.)
2020 – 2023 Turing Fellowship, the Alan Turing Institute, UK.
2019 – 2021 Fellowship in Data-Centric Engineering (470,000 GBP), supported by the Lloyd's Register Foundation and Newcastle University.
2018 – 2020 Co-Investigator on "Auto Generation of Optimal Deep Learning Networks" (114,393 GBP) from the Alan Turing Institute, UK. (Led by Steven McGough @ NU.)
2018 – 2019 Turing Fellowship (20% Salary), the Alan Turing Institute, UK.
2018 – 2022 Co-Investigator on "Approximate Bayesian computation with application to 3D printing" (191,700 EUR). SFI-EPSRC Lead Agency Agreement, University College Dublin, IE, and the Alan Turing Institute, UK. (Led by Nial Friel at UCD.)
2018 Principal Investigator on "Overcoming Uncertainty in Legacy Engineering Resilience Modelling for Flood Hazards" (22,380 GBP), Models 2 Decisions Feasibility Fund.
2018 – 2020 Co-Investigator on "Quantifying Functional Co-Variation in Calcium Handling Proteins in Cardiac Myocytes" (196,538 GBP), BHF-Turing Cardiovascular Data-Science Award, British Heart Foundation and the Alan Turing Institute, UK. (Led by Steven Niederer @ KCL).
2018 Cambridge Philosophical Society Bursary to spend time at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK. (500 GBP)
2017 – 2020 Secondment to the Lloyd's Register Foundation programme on data-centric engineering at the Alan Turing Institute, UK. (105,000 GBP)
2015 VicBiostat Visiting Fellowship. (2,000 AUD)
Committees and Working Groups
2025 – 2029 REF Unit of Assessment Lead (Mathematics) for Newcastle University.
2020 Ayoub Belhadji, École Centrale de Lille, France.
2020 Xi Chen, Newcastle University, UK.
2019 Christian Davey, Monash University, Australia.
2018 Onur Teymur, Imperial College London, UK.
2017 Nathan Owen, University of Exeter, UK.
External Assessor / Interview Panel
2026 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader / Professor in Data Science, Newcastle University, UK.
2026 Assistant / Associate / Professor in AI, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Finland.
2025 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader / Professor in Data Science, Newcastle University, UK.
2025 Assistant / Associate / Professor in AI, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Finland.
2024 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Newcastle University, UK.
2023 Reader / Professor in Statistics, Newcastle University, UK.
2022 Associate Professor, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
2022 Reader / Professor in Statistics, Newcastle University, UK.
2021 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Newcastle University, UK.
2019 Lecturer in Statistics, University College Dublin, IE.
Reviewing Service
AISTATS; Anal. Appl.; Ann. Stat.; Bayesian Anal.; Bioinformatics; Biometrika; BMC Syst. Biol.; Can. J. Stat.; Commun. Comput. Phys.; Electron. J. Stat.; IEEE T. Inform. Theory; IEEE T. Pattern Anal.; IJCAI; Int. J. Intell. Syst.; J. Am. Stat. Assoc.; J. Appl. Probab.; J. Approx. Theory; J. Comput. Graph. Stat.; J. Comput. Neurosci.; J. Comput. Phys.; J. Mach. Learn. Res.; J. R. Soc. Interface; J. R. Statist. Soc. B; J. R. Statist. Soc. C; Mach. Learn.; Math. Biosci.; MCQMC; Methodol. Comput. Appl.; NeurIPS; Prob Num; SIAM J. Matrix Anal. A.; SIAM J. Opt.; SIAM J. Sci. Comput.; SIAM J. Uncertainty Quantification; Stat. Appl. Genet. Mo. B.; Stat. Comput.; Stat. Method App.
Grant Reviewing Service
EPSRC Standard Grants, UK
ERC Consolidator Grants, EU
Horizon 2020, EU
Isaac Newton Institute Programme Grants, UK
KU Leuven Internal Funding
Marsden Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand, NZ
National Science Centre, Poland
NERC Landscape Decisions, UK
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, HK
Organised Conferences & Workshops
2026 Post-Bayesian Statistics, August 2026, University of Sydney, Australia.
2026 Markov Chain and Quasi Monte Carlo Methods, June 2026, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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2026 Uncertainty Quantification in the North East, February 2026, Newcastle University, UK.
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2025 Kernels, Flows and Sampling, October 2025, Newcastle University, UK.
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2024 Next-Generational Extrapolation Methods, November 2024, Newcastle University, UK.
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2024 Prob Num 2024. July 2024 @ St Pancras Meeting Rooms, UK.
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2024 Probabilistic Numerics Spring School, April 2024, University of Southampton, UK.
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2023 Next Generational Kernel Methods, October 2023, Newcastle University, UK.
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2023 Making Better use of MCMC Samples, September 2023, RSS Annual Conference @ Harrogate, UK.
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2023 Modelling, Analysis and Inference for Digital Twins, March 2023 @ Alan Turing Institute, UK.
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2023 Stein Discrepancies, March 2023 @ Bayes Comp, Levi, Finland.
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2022 Prob Num 2022. March 2022 @ St Pancras Meeting Rooms, UK.
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2021 Stein's Method in Computational Statistics, December 2021, Royal Statistical Society, UK.
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2021 European Young Statistician's Meeting: Online (EYSM), September 2021. (International organising committee)
2021 Stein's Method: Post-processing of Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo Methods (MCM), August 2021 @ Universität Mannheim, Germany.
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2020 Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting: Online (BAYSM:O), November 2020. (Senior discussant)
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2020 Cosines & Bayes4Health Data Study Group, September 2020, University of Warwick, UK.
2020 Quantifying Uncertainty due to Discretisation Error in Numerical Computation, September 2020, RSS Annual Conference @ Bournemouth, UK.
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2020 Probabilistic Numerical Methods for Cubature, March 2020 @ SIAM UQ, Garching, Germany.
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2019 Prob Num 2019. October 2019 @ Alan Turing Institute, UK.
2019 Stein's Method for Machine Learning and Statistics, June 2019 @ ICML, California, USA.
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2018 Evolution of Data-Centric Engineering, September 2018, RSS Annual Conference @ Cardiff, UK.
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2018 Max Ent, July 2018 @ Alan Turing Institute, UK.
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2018 Minisymposium on Probabilistic Numerical Methods for Quantification of Discretisation Error. April 2018 @ SIAM UQ, Orange County, CA, USA.
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2018 Meeting of the SAMSI Probabilistic Numerics Working Group. April 2018 @ Alan Turing Institute, UK.
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2018 Data Sciences for Climate and Environment, March 2018 @ Alan Turing Institute, UK.
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2017 Grand Challenges in Data-Centric Engineering. September 2017, RSS Annual Conference @ University of Strathclyde, UK.
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2016 Probabilistic Numerics. August 2016, MCQMC @ Stanford, California, USA.
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2016 Algorithms for Intractable Problems. January 2016, MCMSki @ Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
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2016 Probabilistic Integration: Integrating Inference With Integration. January 2016, MCMSki @ Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
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2015 Julia for Statisticians. November 2015 @ University of Technology Sydney.
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2015 Probabilistic Numerics for Differential Equations. April 2015 @ University of Warwick, UK.
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2014 Statistical Systems Biology. December 2014 @ University of Warwick, UK.
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2012 Inference and Control for Complex Dynamical Systems. November 2012 @ University of Warwick, UK.
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Media and Engagement
2025 Recorded an interview for the Numberphile podcast.
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2025 Created a video on Stein's Paradox for the Numberphile channel.
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2025 Interview for Research Professional News.
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2025 Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society.
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2023 Leverhulme Prize for Mathematics and Statistics.
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2017 Programme on Data-Centric Engineering at the Alan Turing Institute.
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2017 Biennial Research Prize of the Royal Statistical Society.
RSSACEMS
2017 Gave evidence to the NSW State Parliament on housing regulation. More frivolously, featured in a lobbying advert.
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