School of Computer Science and Statistics
In network modelling, edges are inherently interdependent: for instance, if you express interest in this project and contact me, it is more likely that a friend of yours, specifically one who shares similar interests and studies mathematics, will do the same. This interdependence complicates the statistical modelling of relational data, such as email communication networks. … Read more
In this project we are exploring non-parametric methods for the estimation of probability density functions and for regression. The interested Student must be comfortable with Statistics and Mathematics. The Student must do a search about kernel density estimation and Nadaraya–Watson kernel regression. You may also have a look in Prof. Tsybakov’s book “Introduction to nonparametric … Read more
This project is particularly for the Students in Statistics and Sustainability. The interested Student should first check the papers: Establishing the link: Does web traffic from various marketing channels influence direct traffic source purchases? | Marketing Letters (springer.com) Unveiling digital dynamics: Do digital media investments impact organic branded searches? | Journal of Marketing Analytics The … Read more
The project will deal with the statistical analysis of meteorological data. See for example here: 🌤️ Free Open-Source Weather API | Open-Meteo.com The interested Students, must do a good search in this or another relevant data, contact me for confirmation and then they can request the project.
ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student on the M.Sc. in Statistics and Data Science. In this project, we’ll look at the various ways in which ecologists have attempted to answer the question ‘How many species are there?’. Some of these methods are statistical, and we’ll focus on those, but we’ll also take a look … Read more
Individuals in a species (esp. humans) may cooperate and they may communicate. Recent decades have seen quite a lot of efforts to use computational simulation — so-called individual/agent-based modelling — to investigate what cooperation is , and how communication factors into it, striving to fit this into a general picture of varying levels of survival … Read more
There is a traditional ‘optimal’ way to play the game of ‘tic tac toe’ — the way defined by applying the so-called ‘minimax’ algorithm (Chap 5 Russell & Norvig ‘Artif. Intelligence: a Modern Approach’ [R&N]) . An area in of application of ‘Markov Decision Processes’ and ‘Reinforcement Learning’ (Chap 22 [R&N], Chap 13 Mackworth & … Read more
My teaching and research relate to natural language processing and machine learning. There’s code I have developed for algorithms relating to this, some traditional and some more novel. There is scope for projects relating to this pre-existing code and algorithms that is not necessarily related to improving the bottom-line performance of these algorithms, but more … Read more
BRIEFLY: I am quite interested in ‘sound shifts’ that apparently systematically relate languages which have common ancestry and there are possibilities to implement tools to assist in the presentation/verification of data that scholars have over the years assembled to attest to these sound shifts AT GREATER LENGTH: Sometime during the 19th century it was observed … Read more
The online OED (see bottom for url ) contains a lot of information about a word, including ‘etymological’ information on the words ‘origin‘. This info is given near the top of an entry in very terse format, making it accessible really only to specialists. There are several things that could be done to generate portrayals … Read more