Professor Jonathan Gillard
Personal Chair
Deputy Head of School
- gillardjw@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 0619
- 2.03, Abacws, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a Professor in Statistics but I also work at the interface of optimization, linear algebra and operational research. My research is intradisciplinary, straddling several separate disciplines within mathematics. I work on large-scale data-driven and computationally-intensive topics, and on industrial problems with societal impact, having current or past collaborations with the NHS, Welsh Ambulance Service Trust, Airbus and the Office for National Statistics, for example. My main current research topic is in matrix optimization problems and their statistical application.
I am Deputy Head of the School of Mathematics and I lead its Statistics Research Group. I am delighted to be Academic Chair of Cardiff University's strategic partnership with the Office for National Statistics.
I am always interested to hear from interested PhD candidates. I currently have students working in big data, global optimization and learner analytics. I am interested in supervising students in any of my research areas.
Biography
Professional memberships
- Member of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics
- Member of the International Society for Global Optimization
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Publications
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I am delighted to be a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I am presently a module leader for MA1501 Statistical Inference, and have published a textbook with Springer entitled "A First Course in Statistical Inference".
Research interests
- Matrix low-rank approximation and its interface in statistical methodologies such as time series analysis
- Development of novel statistical techniques for applied and interdisciplinary research
- Innovative teaching methods and the analysis of survey data generated from student evaluations
Research group
Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
- low-rank matrix optimization problems and their applications
- time series analysis
- statistical methodology for industrial application
- learner analytics
Current supervision
Past projects
Some examples of previous projects include:
- Julie Vile (2013): Time-Dependent Stochastic Modelling for Predicting Demand and Scheduling of Emergency Medical Services.
- Gareth Davies (2018): Examination of Approaches to Calibration in Survey Sampling.
- Henry Wilde (2021): New Methods for Algorithm Evaluation and Cluster Initialisation with applications to Healthcare