Steve Brooks (statistician)
- Steve Brooks (statistician)
Steve Brooks is professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. [cite web|url=http://www.cei.group.cam.ac.uk/directory/people/record.html?id=131|title=Cambridge Environmental Initiative: Steve Brooks]
He received a degree in mathematics from Bristol University in 1991, and a Master's degree in statistics from the University of Kent. He received his Ph.D. at Cambridge; his supervisor was Gareth Roberts. He then returned to Bristol as a lecturer in the Statistics Group and, following an appointment as Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey, returned to Cambridge in 2000.
He is a specialist in Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.
In addition to his academic posts, he is a director of ATASS, a statistical research consultancy specialising in sports modelling.
Honours
*2005 Royal Statistical Society's Guy medal in Bronze
*2004 Philip Leverhulme Prize [cite web|url=http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/|title=Report of the Leverhulme Trustees 2007]
*1999 Royal Statistical Society's Research prize
References
External links
* [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~steve/index.html Home page at Cambridge]
* [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~steve/Research/ Recent publications]
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