Steve Brooks (statistician)
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Born | July 1970 |
Residence | UK |
Nationality | British |
Fields | Computational and Applied Statistics |
Institutions | University of Bristol University of Surrey University of Cambridge |
Alma mater | University of Bristol University of Kent University of Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | Gareth Roberts[1] |
Doctoral students | Yanan Fan Ruth King Ricardo Ehlers Lara Jamieson Garfield Brown Teresa Barata Paul Birrell Alex Glaser Chiara Mazzetta Ioanna Manolopoulou Vanessa Cave Christiana Spyrou Silvia Figini Luciana Dalla Valle |
Notable awards | Guy Medal (Bronze, 2005) Philip Leverhulme Prize RSS Research Prize |
Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd,[2] a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.[3]
He received a degree in mathematics from Bristol University in 1991, and a Master's degree in statistics from the University of Kent. He received his PhD at Cambridge; his supervisor was Gareth Roberts. Post-graduation he then returned to Bristol as a lecturer in the Statistics Group and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey. In 2000 Brooks returned to Cambridge first as a fellow of Kings College, Cambridge.[4] and then of Wolfson College.[5]
He is a specialist in Markov chain Monte Carlo and applied statistical methods.
He is one of the founding directors[6] of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology[7] in 2005.
He left Cambridge in 2006 to become Director of Research for ATASS Sports and is now executive director of Select Statistical Services Ltd a statistical consultancy firm based in Exeter and the Director of the Exeter Initiative for Statistics and its Applications[8]
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Career
- 1989–1991 Undergraduate, University of Bristol
- 1991–1992 Graduate Student, University of Kent
- 1992–1993 Research Associate, University of Kent
- 1993–1996 Research Student, University of Cambridge
- 1996–1999 Lecturer, University of Bristol
- 1999–2000 Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey
- 2000–2002 Lecturer, University of Cambridge
- 2002–2005 Reader, University of Cambridge[9]
- 2005–2008 Professor, University of Cambridge[10]
- 2006–2011 Director of Research ATASS[11]
- 2011-Executive Director Select Statistical Services Ltd
Degrees and Qualifications
- 1991 BSc Mathematics, Bristol
- 1992 MSc Statistics, Kent
- 1996 PhD, Cambridge
- 1999 Chartered Statistician
- 2011 Chartered Scientist
Honours and awards
- 2005 Royal Statistical Society's Guy medal in Bronze[12]
- 2004 Philip Leverhulme Prize[13]
- 1999 Royal Statistical Society's Research prize
Books
- Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo edited by Steve Brooks, Andrew Gelman, Galin Jones and Xiao-Li Meng; Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011[14]
- Bayesian Analysis for Population Ecology by Ruth King, Olivier Gimenez, Byron Morgan and Steve Brooks; Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2009[15]
References
- ↑ Steve Brooks at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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External links
- EngvarB from September 2014
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- Living people
- English statisticians
- Alumni of the University of Bristol
- Alumni of the University of Kent
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
- Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge
- Winners of the Guy Medal in Bronze
- Members of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
- 1970 births