About me
I am a post-doc at Professor Seth Flaxman’s lab at Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. I am also a part of Machine Learning and Global Health Network I completed my PhD degree in Statistics at London School of Economics (LSE), supervised by Professor Wicher Bergsma. My research interests include: Gaussian process regression, kernel methods, spatio-temporal analysis, statistical modelling, Bayesian inference and efficient and interpretable statistical learning. I am particularly interested in applications to the areas of environmental studies, and epidemiology. Prior to starting my PhD study, I was working as a statistician at the pharmaceutical industry. I completed my Master’s degree in Statistics at LSE, and my Bachelor’s in Economics and Political Science at Waseda University in Tokyo with Professor Shuhei Kurizaki as my advisor.
Projects
My PhD projects revolved around statistical modelling with additive Gaussian process priors. More specifically I am intersted in modelling and selecting interaction effects and exploring ways to efficiently implement such models with many terms involved. This is discussed in this paper currently in submission. I also explored missing/censored data and imputations with Gaussian process models; see here.
Currently I am involved in two projects on Food security in collaboration with UN World Food Programme.
- Transforming mobile phone survey to a fine grained population-representative map of food insecurity prevalence using multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP)
- Forecasting and now-casting food secuity in the area where primary survey data is not available or interrupted. This is a joint work with Dr.Francesca Panero.
Other things
Having suffered from eating disorder for a large part of my high school and undergraduate study and chronic fatigue syndrome during my PhD, I’d like to be understanding of everyone who is affected by health issues.
- I support BEAT, a UK based charity organisation, whenever I can.
- Any prospetive students with health issues considering doing a PhD, or others, are more than welcomed to reach out!