Teaching (2008/2009):

Since I have recently become Head of School, I have no regular teaching this year.

Research Activities

Nonparametric density estimation and regression;
Classification techniques (the "StatLog book" is here);
Spatial statistics and image analysis
Bioinformatics

Research reports available on-line:

Boosting kernel density estimates: a bias reduction technique? (appeared in Biometrika)

Kernel Density Classification and Boosting: an $L_2$ analysis (appeared in Statistics and Computing)

On Boosting Kernel Regression (appeared in JSPI)

Automatic Bandwidth Selection for Circular Density Estimation (appeared in CSDA)

Protein Bioinformatics and Mixtures of Bivariate von Mises Distributions for Angular Data (appeared in Biometrics)

Local polynomial regression for circular predictors (to appear in Statistics and Probability Letters)

Using small bias nonparametric density estimators for confidence interval estimation (appeared in Journal of Nonparametric Statistics)

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Some xrays of my broken ankle (taken in 2004)! Front view and Side view