Sylvia Richardson

Sylvia Therese Richardson CBE FMedSci is a French/British Bayesian statistician and is currently Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge.[1]. At the end of 2020 she will become the president of the Royal Statistical Society.[2]

Sylvia Richardson
CBE FMedSci
NationalityFrench, British
Known forTransdimensional MCMC
AwardsGuy Medal (Silver, 2009)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Warwick, University of Paris V, INSERM, Imperial College, London, University of Cambridge, Medical Research Council
ThesisSome Ergodic Properties of Stopping Time Transformations. (1978)

Education

Richardson completed her PhD at Nottingham University in 1978 with a thesis entitled "Ergodic properties of stopping time transformations”.[3][4] She then went to study at Université Paris-Sud supervised by Jean Bretagnolle submitting a thesis entitled "Processus spatialement dépendants: convergence vers la normalité, tests d'association et applications" in 1989.[5]

Career

Richardson has been the MRC Research Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge, bye-fellow of Emmanuel College and Director of the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit since 2012. Previously, she was chair in Biostatistics at Imperial College London from 2000 and before that she was Directeur de Recherches at INSERM and held lectureships at Warwick University and the University of Paris V.[6]

She is co-editor of the volume Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice with Wally Gilks and David Spiegelhalter.

Research

Richardson has made significant contributions to Bayesian statistical methodology and the application of Markov chain Monte Carlo. Her expertise is in spatial statistics with applications to geographic epidemiology and in biostatistics with applications in biochemical modeling, in particular modeling of gene expression data.

Recognition

Richardson was awarded the Guy Medal of The Royal Statistical Society in Silver in 2009.[7] She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,[8] of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis[9] and of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[10]

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to medical statistics.[11]

References
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  2. "Sylvia Richardson confirmed as next RSS President". 6 August 2019.
  3. "Some Ergodic Properties of Stopping Time Transformations".
  4. "CurriculumVitaeProfessor Sylvia Richardson PhD" (PDF).
  5. "Sylvia Richardson - Mathematics Genealogy Project".
  6. "Professor Sylvia Richardson". Archived from the original on 2010-08-01. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
  7. https://www8.imperial.ac.uk/content/dav/ad/workspaces/reporter/Reporter201web.pdf%5B%5D
  8. Honored Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, archived from the original on 2014-03-02, retrieved 2017-11-24
  9. ISBA Fellows, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, retrieved 2018-02-08
  10. "Professor Sylvia Richardson - The Academy of Medical Sciences". Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  11. "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B9.
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