Staff Profile
Axel Finke
Senior Lecturer in Statistics
- Email: axel.finke@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Herschel Building, 4th Floor, Room 4.16B
Background
Education/experience:
- I obtained an MSc (2011) and (2015) in Statistics from The University of Warwick;
- subsequently, I worked as a research associate at Cambridge, UCL, and NUS (Singapore);
- before joining 缅北禁地, I was Lecturer in Statistics at Loughborough University.
Current administrative roles:
- lead
- PGR Selector for the Statistics Section;
Research
Research interests:
I develop and analyse methodology for Computational (Bayesian) Statistics, especially in high dimensions, e.g.:
- conditional sequential Monte Carlo (CSMC) methods in high dimensions [, ],
- CSMC-type generalisations of MALA, MGRAD and PCN(L) which scale more favourably than standard versions of these algorithms with the time horizon in state-space models [],
- particle MCMC methods [, ].
I am also interested in applications of such methods in biology. For instance, I have been working on:
- ecology [, ],
- epigenetics (DNA methylation) []; our implementation is available as a Nextflow pipeline on .
Other research interests:
- machine learning, in particular on machine unlearning;
- mathematical and statistical modelling of endurance sports, e.g., running or cycling; some preliminary works are available here [journal, ] (see also the ) and here [].
More generally, I am always keen to collaborate across disciplines on projects that could benefit from statistical/mathematical modelling, data science, or machine learning. Also feel free to contact me if you are interested in PhD projects in any of the above-mentioned areas.
PhD students:
- (machine unlearning; supervised jointly with Prof. ; graduated 2024);
- Jonah Drake (statistical modelling of endurance sports; supervised jointly with Dr );
- Petros Andreou (machine unlearning; supervised jointly with Prof. );
- Jamie Lanyon (machine unlearning; supervised jointly with Prof. ).