People

We are affiliated with Statistics and Probability Section (or Data Science Lab) and collaborate closely with other sections including Insurance and Economics and Machine Learning Theory. Within Denmark, we are affiliated with Pioneer Centre for AI and ELLIS Unit Copenhagen.

Current team:

Prospective postdoc / PhD:

Postdocs at the Department of Mathematical Sciences are usually 2-year positions. The PhD program typically lasts 3 years, but we also offer flexible PhD programs (4+4 and 3+5) which combine MSc and PhD studies.

Denmark has the flattest work hierarchy in the world. PhD students in Denmark are academic employees of the Universities, who have access to health care and many other social benefits, as do their accompanying families. PhD student receives a generous salary, pension, and full vacation rights. Most are placed at A-4 at the beginning of their PhD (see salary scale here). There is no tuition fee for PhD students.

Copenhagen is among the most livable cities in the world, with a rich culture within music, theater, and associations (see here). A publicly supported daycare and health care system, maternity/parental leave, and six weeks of annual vacation make life easy for families. International candidates may find information on living and working in Denmark here. Helpful information is also available at the International Staff Mobility office at the University of Copenhagen, which offers various services to international researchers coming to and working at the University of Copenhagen.

Master’s / Bachelor’s projects

If you are interested in my recent research, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Students in the MSc in Statistics program with a strong background in measure-theoretic probability are particularly encouraged to reach out.

2023

  • Tianjie Huang (MMath, Oxford 2023) → DRW Holdings
  • Rupert McKay (MMath, Oxford 2023)
  • Georg Meinhardt (MSc in Maths, Oxford 2023) → co-founder and CEO, LXQ Inc
    • Dissertation: Analytical Lower Bounds on the Probability of at Least m out of N Events
    • Awarded the OMMS Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the MSc Mathematical Sciences at University of Oxford
  • Songlan (Nick) Nie (MMath, Oxford 2023) → PhD Rice
  • Ziyue Su (MSc in Maths, Oxford 2023)
  • Shancheng Wang (MSc in Maths, Oxford 2023)

2022

  • Anass Ben Bouazza (MSc in Statistics, Oxford 2022, co-supervised by Quan Zhou) → Data Scientist, Shift Technology
    • Dissertation: Gaussian processes and MCMC methods for PDE parameter estimation
    • Follow-up paper: TBA
  • Qin Su (MSc in Statistics, Oxford 2022, co-supervised by Quan Zhou) → Data Scientist, L’Oréal
  • Yi Tu (MMath, Oxford 2022) → Jump Trading
  • Yiran Yang (visiting Oxford in 2022 from CUHK, co-supervised by Alex Shestopaloff) → PhD CUHK
  • Dongsheng Zeng (MSc in Statistics, Oxford 2022, co-supervised by Mihai Cucuringu)
  • Keyi Zhang (MMath, Oxford 2022) → Bank of America