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SEDS is an interdisciplinary research unit established to foster the study of data science at LSE

SEDS existed from 2015-2020, and has now been replaced by the Data Science Institute. The information here is kept only for historical purposes.

 

Faculty Co-Directors

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Kenneth Benoit

Professor of Computational Social Science, Department of Methodology, LSE

Research interests: Automated quantitative methods; political texts and social media; analysis of big data; methods of text mining; comparative party competition; European Parliament; electoral systems

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László Végh

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE

Research interests: Discrete and continuous optimisation; algorithm design; game theory; theoretical foundations of machine learning

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Milan Vojnovic

Director, LSE SEDS

Professor of Data Science, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Machine learning and data mining; distributed computing; economics and computation; information networks

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SEDS Affiliates

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Martin Anthony

Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE

Research interests: Mathematical modelling of machine learning; Boolean and pseudo-Boolean functions

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Pauline Barrieu

Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Model uncertainty; Decision making; Insurance-linked securities; Contract design

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Matteo Barigozzi

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Methods for high-dimensional factor analysis; network analysis; financial econometrics; statistical learning for spatio-temporal dependent data

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Tugkan Batu

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE

Research interests: Theory of Computation; Algorithms; Randomised Computation; Sublinear Algorithms; Property Testing; Testing Distributions

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Kenneth Benoit 

Professor of Computational Social Science, Department of Methodology, LSE

Research interests: Automated quantitative methods; Political texts and social media; Analysis of big data; Methods of text mining; Comparative party competition; European Parliament; Electoral systems

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Umut Çetin

Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Theory of Markov processes; Monte-Carlo simulation; Stochastic analysis; Market microstructure; Mathematical finance

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Yining Chen

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Change-point detection; nonparametric estimation; computational statistics; applications in medicine

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Yunxiao Chen 

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Statistical analysis and computational algorithms for large-scale item response data; Statistical modeling and computational algorithms for dynamic behavioural data; Sequential design of dynamic systems, with applications to educational assessment and learning

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Paul Duetting

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE

Research interests: Algorithms; Game Theory; Mechanism Design

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Piotr Fryzlewicz

Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Multiscale modelling and estimation; time series (especially nonstationary time series); change-point detection; high-dimensional statistical inference and dimension reduction; statistical learning, networks; statistics in economics and finance; statistics in the social sciences; statistics in neuroscience

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Kostas Kalogeropoulos

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Bayesian Inference for Stochastic processes; Hamiltonian Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Sequential Monte Carlo; Factor Analysis

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Clifford Lam

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Regularization methods for high dimensional data; semiparametric and nonparametric modelling; financial econometrics; spatial econometrics

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Irini Moustaki

Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Latent variable and structural equation models for large and complex data sets; composite likelihood estimation methods; models for categorical data; handling missing values and drop out in longitudinal studies; multivariate analysis; Psychometrics

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Johannes Ruf

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE

Research interests: Stochastic analysis; Mathematical finance; statistics in finance; statistical learning; time series analysis; financial econometrics; Blockchain; machine learning; social network analysis

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Chris Skinner

Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Administrative data; confidentiality; data quality; government statistics; measurement error; missing data; privacy; sampling

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Milena Tsvetkova

Assistant Professor, Department of Methodology, LSE

Research interests: Computational social science; online experiments; network analysis; agent based modeling; cooperation; collective behaviour; sociology; social psychology

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Luitgard Veraart

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, LSE

Research interests: Mathematical finance; statistics in finance; risk management in financial markets; financial networks; systemic risk; energy markets; optimal investment; stochastic volatility

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Qiwei Yao

Professor, Department of Statistics, LSE

Research interests: Time series analysis; dimension reduction; factor modelling; financial econometrics; statistical learning for dependent data

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