Professor Chenlei Leng (冷琛雷), Co-Director, OxWaSP CDT
I am a statistician interested in developing new methods for analysing large complex data of high-dimensional, longitudinal, networked, and correlated nature.
I joined Warwick in 2013 as a Professor of Statistics, having received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and PhD in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I co-direct the Oxford-Warwick Statistics Programme (OxWaSP), the EPSRC & MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generational Statistical Science.
Research Activities
- Associate editor, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B.
- Chair, the Research Section Committee of the Royal Statistical Society. Consider submitting your paper as a read paper to JRSS-B.
- Faculty fellow, the Alan Turing Institute for data science.
Tutees: For beginning term meetings in Term 1 AY 2016/2017, please sign up to meet on 10 Oct or 14 Oct.
Office Hours in Term 1 AY 2016/2017: M 9:30-10:30, F 9:30-10:30. Please send an email for appointment in advance.
Students, Postdocs, Visitors, Collaborators:
- Enquiry about research collaboration or supervision is always welcome;
- I am recruiting talented PhD students. Some indicative projects on offer can be found here and here. Students interested in these topics are encouraged to get in touch directly. OS applicants from China, please consider applying for a studentship offered by China Scholarship Council;
- I am happy to host those who wish to apply for Open Research Fellowships or are externally funded, e.g. by the China Scholarship Council.

Office: Room D0.13, Zeeman Building.
Email: C dot Leng at warwick dot ac dot uk
Phone: +44 (0)24 7615 0779
Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 4532
Address: Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.