Profile

I am a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick.

I obtained a BSc in Statistics from the Athens University of Economics and Business in 2004. I was then awarded a PhD in Statistics in 2007 from the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick with a thesis titled “Bias reduction in exponential family nonlinear models”, where I subsequently held an appointment as a CRiSM Research Fellow until 2010. In September 2010, I joined the Department of Statistical Science at University College London as a Lecturer, and I got promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015. I moved back to University of Warwick as a Reader in Data Science in January 2018, and I got promoted to Professor in August 2021. From September 2016 until September 2025, I have been a Turing Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, which is the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, and between January 2022 and September 2023 I was the Turing University Lead for the University of Warwick. I also hold a position as an Honorary Professor of Statistics at University College London.

In these pages, you will find details about my research interests and activity, work on scientific and non-scientific software development, and my supervision, teaching, editorial and other activities.

Working with me

I am actively looking for PhD students and PostDoc researchers with strong mathematical, statistical or computational backgrounds to join my group. If you are interested in working with me, please take a look at my research pages to find out more about my current research interests. Please also take a look at my supervision page to see current and former PhD students and PostDoc researchers I am/have worked with, research topics that I am particularly keen to explore with a PhD student or a PostDoc, and how to get in touch.

Blog and news

Analyses, curiosities, opinions, explanations, explorations, and random thoughts will appear at IKosmidis-Blog.

For a list of news items see IKosmidis-News.

Collaboration platforms and social media

I use GitHub for most of my authoring and software development work and for collaborating. I also use Mastodon and BlueSky, mainly for keeping up-to-date with what people and organisations I follow think or do, and sometimes for (shameless) self-advertising.

Take a look at my GitHub repositories and my Mastodon and Twitter feeds, and feel free to follow me on either.

CV

My CV can be found here.