Richard Samworth

Richard John Samworth (born May 1978) is a British statistician who is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. His main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density estimation and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.

Honours and awards The Research Prize 2008, Royal Statistical Society The Guy Medal in Bronze 2012, Royal Statistical Society Philip Leverhulme Prize 2014, Leverhulme Trust Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2014 election) Fellow, American Statistical Association (2015 election) The Adams Prize 2017 The COPSS Presidents' Award 2018 IMS Medallion Lecture 2018 Rustagi Memorial Lecture 2021, The Ohio State University Fellow, Royal Society (2021 election) Arthur Cohen Award & Lecture 2024, Rutgers University IMS Grace Wahba Award & Lecture 2025 The Guy Medal in Silver 2025, Royal Statistical Society David Cox Medal 2025

Selected works

Fan, J., Samworth, R. and Wu, Y. (2009), Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 2013–2038.