Warsaw School of Economics (1998 - 2003)
Warsaw University, mathematics (2001 - 2006)
Warwick University (2007 - 2010 exp.)

I am a third year PhD student at Warwick University. My supervisors are: Dr Diane Maclagan (maths) and Prof. Jim Smith (stats). I am working on algebraic geometry of models for phylogenetic data. My main research interests are: algebraic geometry, statistical graphical models and time series analysis. I am particularly interested in mathematical aspects of statistical models. I wrote my Master's thesis in Warsaw under the supervision of Prof. Jarosław Wiśniewski. In the thesis I analysed the connection between toric geometry, discrete geometry and statistical graphical models for binary data.

WOGAS2 Workshop on Geometric and Algebraic Statistics 2: Apr 6-7 2010 at Warwick. Read more. 

papers:

• Asymptotic model selection and identifiability of directed tree models with hidden variables, coming soon.
• The geometry of independence tree models with hidden variables (with Jim Q. Smith), 2010, 0904.1980, submitted.

current research:

• Hyperdeterminants and applications. 
• Identifiability of statistical models with hidden/missing data.
• Geometry of the hyper-Dirichlet distribution.
• Bayesian asymptotic model selection for phylogenetic tree models.
• Geometry of phylogenetic tree models and some inference issues.

activities:

• SIMAI 2010. (21.- 25. June 2010) at Università di Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
• Talk@WOGAS2 Workshop on Geometric and Algebraic Statistics 2. (6.-7. April 2010) at University of Warwick.
• Visitor at MSRI, Berkeley, CA (2. - 18. October 2009).
  • Tropical Geometry in Combinatorics and Algebra. (12.-16. October 2009) at MSRI, CA, US.

• Workshop on Geometric and Algebraic Statistics. (13. July 2009) at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
• Talk@YRM. (25. May 2009) at Warwick. "Asymptotic Bayesian model selection: what may go wrong?" (plots)(pdf).
• Poster@The Workshop on Graphical Models and Genetic Applications. (15. - 17. April 2009) at Warwick.
• Talk@RSC 2009. (23. - 26. March 2009) in Lancaster - "Asymptotic model selection under non standard conditions". (pdf).
• Workshop on Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo. (16. - 20. March 2009) at Warwick.
• Talk@The Workshop on Algebraic Statistics. (14. - 18. December 2008) at MSRI, Berkeley, CA, USA - "Semi-algebraic description of conditional independence tree models for binary data" (pdf, video).
• Talk@Seminarium MCMC. (13. October 2008) at MIM, Warsaw University, Warsaw.
• Poster@The Opening Workshop for 2008-09 Program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics. (14. - 17. September 2008) at SAMSI, NC, USA. I was a short time visitor at SAMSI until 20. September 2008.
• Poster@Workshop on Applied Mathematics/Statistics Interface, Warwick (11. June 2008) - "Semi-algebraic aspects of binary general Markov models on trees".
• Talk@WAG Workshop on Commutative Algebra, Complexes and Computer Algebra, Warwick (2. June 2008) - "Statistical models are algebraic varieties" (pdf).
• Talk@YRM Warwick (27. May 2008) - "Geometric aspects of statistical models for discrete data".

past courses:

• Algebraic Geometry School in Łukęcin, Poland. (6. - 12. September 2009) - "Algebraic torus actions" (Klaus Altmann and Jürgen Hausen).
• APTS@Glasgow (1. - 5. September 2008) - two modules: Spatial and Longitudinal Data Analysis (P J Diggle), Nonparametric Smoothing (A Delaigle).
• APTS@Bristol (7. - 11. July 2008) - two modules: Applied Stochastic Processes (W S Kendall), Computationally-Intensive Statistical Methods (B D Ripley).
• Oberwolfach Seminar: Algebraic Statistics (11. May - 17. May 2008)
• APTS@Oxford (April 2008) - two modules: Statistical Modelling (A C Davison and J J Forster), Statistical Asymptotics (G A Young).
• APTS@Warwick (December 2007) - two modules: Statistical Inference (D R Cox and D Firth), Statistical Computing (S N Wood).
• EABCN Training School (10. Sep - 14. Sep 2007) - "Forecast Evaluation and Related Topics in Applied Time Series" hosted by Banco de Portugal, Lisbon.
• (Pre)Doc Course (7. May - 25. July 2007) - A summer course "Integer Points in Polyhedra".
• Summer School (17. June - 21 June 2006) - A summer school "Algebraic statistics, tropical geometry and computational biology"

contact information:

Address: 
Dept of Statistics
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
UK

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