Bio
Ioannis Kosmidis is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Statistical Science in University College London. Having obtained a BSc in Statistics at the Athens University of Economics and Business in 2004, he was then awarded his PhD in Statistics in 2007 at University of Warwick with a thesis titled “Bias reduction in exponential family nonlinear models“. He then held an appointment as a CRiSM Research Fellow at University of Warwick until 2010. In September 2010, Ioannis joined University College London as a Lecturer in the Department of Statistical Science, and got promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015.
Research
Ioannis’ theoretical and methodological research focuses on optimal estimation and inference from complex statistical models, penalized likelihood methods and clustering. A particular focus of his work is the development of efficient, in terms of computational complexity and implementation, algorithms for applying the methods he develops to prominent data-analytic scenarios. He is doing extensive work in producing corresponding, well-documented, open-source software that delivers the methodological advances to the data science community and beyond (for example, the brglm, profileModel, betareg and trackeR R packages). Ioannis also actively engages in a range of cross-disciplinary applications (e.g. applications in earthquake engineering, finance, and sport and health analytics), particularly in settings where statistical modelling and the associated algorithms can impact policy making. He is the founder and leader of the Statistics in Sports and Health research group at the University College London, and associate editor for Statistics and Computing and the Journal of Statistical Software.
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