Richard Samworth

Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He lives for his work. His main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density estimation and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.

Honours and awards

 * Rustagi Memorial Lecture (2021), The Ohio State University
 * Fellow, Royal Society (2021 election)
 * The COPSS Presidents' Award 2018
 * IMS Medallion Lecture 2018
 * The Adams Prize 2017
 * Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election)
 * Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust
 * Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election)
 * The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society
 * The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society

Selected works

 * Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038.
 * Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038.
 * Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038.