Welcome to the personal website of Professor Richard Boys
Research interests:
- Bayesian statistics: computationally intensive methods; inference for partially observed stochastic processes; applications mainly in science, social science and medicine.
- Statistical bioinformatics and stochastic systems biology: stochastic models in molecular biology, hidden Markov models for DNA sequences, phylogenetic inference
Current research projects:
- Eukaryotic genomic origins, parasites, and the essential nature of mitochondria - Dr Sarah Heaps, European Research Council funded PDRA (2012-15), with Dr Tom Nye and Prof Martin Embley (Institute for Cell and Molecular Bioscience).
- Rooting major cellular radiations using statistical phylogenetics - Svetlana Cherlin, European Research Council funded PhD student (2012-15), jointly supervised with Prof Martin Embley (Institute for Cell and Molecular Bioscience) and Dr Tom Nye.
- Bayesian inference for stochastic differential mixed-effects models - Gavin Whittaker, PhD student (2011-14), jointly supervised with Dr Andrew Golightly
- Probability and kinetics of inclusion formation - Nina Wilkinson, BBSRC DTG funded PhD student (2011-14), jointly supervised with Dr Viktor Korolchuk (Institute for Ageing and Health), Dr Colin Gillespie and Prof Doug Gray (University of Ottawa)
- Modelling gene tree heterogeneity in phylogenetic inference - Rute Vieira, Portugese FCT funded PhD student (2010-14), jointly supervised with Dr Tom Nye
- Bayesian inference for stochastic models in systems biology - Holly Ainsworth, EPSRC funded PhD student (2009-13), jointly supervised with Dr Colin Gillespie
Current MMathStat projects:
- Bayesian analysis of data using the skew t-distribution - Jordan Dickens
- Bayesian analysis of data using sinh-arcsinh distributions - Emma Varey
Previous research projects:
I have been involved in numerous previous projects with academic staff, PhD students, MMathStat project students and summer project students
Current main duties:
- Research Group Leader, Newcastle Group on Statistical Bioinformatics and Stochastic Systems Biology (SBSSB)
- Royal Statistical Society: Chairman, Graduate Training Programme Committee
- Member of EPSRC Peer Review College
Professor Richard Boys
School of
Mathematics & Statistics
Newcastle University, Newcastle
upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 7297, Fax: +44 (0)191 222 8020
E-mail: richard.boys at ncl.ac.uk