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👏 Our congratulations to Emeritus Professor Brian Ripley on being named a 2026 Rousseeuw Prize laureate.
The award recognises the contributions of Professor Ripley and the international R Core Team to statistical computing worldwide.
Find out more at https://tinyurl.com/yjhcj4ja
Oxford statisticians took part in the PKU–Oxford Joint Conference on Quantitative Finance and Data Science in Beijing, with contributions across econometrics, machine learning and financial maths.
The visit also marked plans for future collaboration between researchers.
👏 Our congratulations to Professor Charlotte Deane MBE, Professor of Structural Bioinformatics and lead of the Oxford Protein Informatics Group, who has been announced among the new Fellows of the @royalsociety today.
Read more about the news: https://tinyurl.com/mtpx69vr
📢 A milestone for AI-driven drug discovery
Researchers from the department, as part of the @openbind.bsky.social consortium, have helped release a major new open dataset and predictive AI model to strengthen the data foundations for AI in drug discovery.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/2j9u44mw
We’re recruiting for a StatML CDT Administrator to support the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistics and Machine Learning (StatML).
📅 Closing date: 12.00 noon (UK time), 6 March 2026
➡️ Details and application information: tinyurl.com/2zcadjrc
📢 Event: Science in the Age of Algorithms
19 May 2026, 5pm, Andrew Wiles Building, Maths Inst.
Public panel discussion with Professor Mullainathan (MIT), Professor Shadbolt (Oxford), and Dr Hadsell (Google DeepMind), chaired by Professor Abeler.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/36fy2mxx
Nearly 30 years of data. One major social split.
In a new study led by the University of Texas at Austin, Oxford researchers contributed to the analysis of nearly 30 years of data tracking the breakdown of the world’s largest known chimpanzee community.
Find out more: https://tinyurl.com/22b2mrch
Our congratulations to Professor Christl Donnelly on being awarded the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social's Guy Medal in Silver for her outstanding work on infectious disease modelling, including COVID-19.
A well-deserved honour 👏
Read more about the story: https://tinyurl.com/ywsvnypy
The OpenBind consortium’s first release of experimental data marks a milestone in efforts to improve how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in drug discovery.
Find out more ⬇️
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05-12-openbind-releases-first-open-dataset-and-ai-model-for-drug-discovery
We are proud to announce the 2026 RSS medal & prize winners: Peter McCullagh, Christl Donnelly, Maria Skoularidou, Finn Lindgren and Sophie Carr—recognised for outstanding contributions to statistics and data science.
Read more about the winners and their work: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
