5 x Postdoctoral Research Associate Opportunities: Statistical Foundations for Detecting Anomalous Structure in Stream Settings (DASS) Programme

Closing Date: Monday 27^th January, 2025 

We invite applications to join the Statistical Foundations for Detecting Anomalous Structure in Stream Settings (DASS) Programme.  

This £4M programme is funded by EPSRC and brings research groups from the Universities of Lancaster, Bristol, Warwick and the London School of Economics together with a committed group of industrial and public sector partners.  

DASS will consider the foundational statistical challenges of identifying anomalous structure in data streams within constrained environments, handling the contemporary data realities, and identifying and tracking dependence across streams.  

The programme is led by Idris Eckley (Lancaster University), Haeran Cho (University of Bristol), Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster University), Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics) and Yi Yu (University of Warwick).  

Five, two-year posts are currently advertised. Posts at Lancaster (2), Bristol and Warwick are advertised here, whilst a further post at LSE is advertised here; candidates are strongly encouraged to apply to all advertised positions. 

You should have, or be close to completing, a PhD in Statistics or a closely related discipline. Throughout, you should have demonstrated an ability to develop new statistical methods or theory in one of the relevant areas, including but not limited to: anomaly detection; changepoint analysis; non-stationary time series analysis; high dimensional statistics; statistical-computational trade-offs; scalable statistical methods. You will also have shown a demonstrable ability to produce academic writing of the highest publishable quality and/or statistical computing skills.  

The closing date for applications for all posts is Monday 27^th January, 2025.  

Candidates who are considering making an application are strongly encouraged to contact Idris Eckley (i.eckley@lancaster.ac.uk), Haeran Cho (haeran.cho@bristol.ac.uk), Paul Fearnhead (p.fearnhead@lancaster.ac.uk), Yi Yu (yi.yu.2@warwick.ac.uk), Qiwei Yao (q.yao@lse.ac.uk) to discuss the programme in greater detail.