Richard Everitt

I am currently a Postdoctoral Scientist in the Nuffield Department for Clinical Medicine, working on the Modernising Medical Microbiology project.  My background is in (mostly Bayesian) statistics and machine learning, which I am currently using to investigate the evolution of pathogens through the study of full genomic data.

I was formerly a Brunel Fellow in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bristol (where I also studied for my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Peter Green).  Prior to this I was a researcher at QinetiQ, specialising in target tracking, signal and image processing and classification.

My primary research interests are in methodological work in Bayesian statistics, in both inference and modelling.  The majority of my work on inference is in Markov chain Monte Carlo, sequential Monte Carlo and approximate Bayesian computation, with my modelling interests focussing on graphical models, social networks and non-parametrics.  I have an ongoing interest in the use of computers in computational statistics.