SMC Down Under: AMSI-AustMS Workshop on Sequential Monte Carlo

Dr Francesca Crucinio is a PostDoctoral Fellow at ENSAE in Paris and a member of the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) working with Nicolas Chopin. She is interested in Monte Carlo and interacting particle methods (e.g. importance sampling, sequential Monte Carlo, Markov chain Monte Carlo, McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations) both from a methodological and a theoretical point of view.

Before joining ENSAE, Francesca was a Research Fellow in the Department of Statistics of the University of Warwick working with Gareth Roberts and Adam Johansen.

Personal website: https://francescacrucinio.github.io/

Professor Sumeetpal Singh recently started as the Tibra Foundation Chair in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wollongong. He moved to UOW from the University of Cambridge. His area of expertise is statistical signal processing and computational statistics. He is well known for his contributions to some of the most effective computational techniques for contemporary data science. At UOW, Professor Singh will continue to develop an internationally renowned research program in Computational Methodology for Statistics and Machine Learning, hoping to collaborate with other applied sciences within the University, such as life sciences and engineering

Saifuddin Syed is a Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Fellow in computational statistics and machine learning at the University of Oxford’s Department of Statistics, where he is also a member of the Algorithms and Inference Working Group for the Generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT). His research focus is on developing mathematically rigorous and scalable algorithms for Bayesian inference in scientific applications. Saifudden's approach is centered around the use of “annealing” techniques, which involve progressively transforming solutions from a more manageable reference problem to address intractable problems. He draws inspiration from a range of fields, including stochastic analysis, statistical physics, and differential geometry.”

Personal website https://www.saifsyed.com/