Sam Power

Hello! My name is Sam, and I am a researcher in Statistics.

I am currently Lecturer in Statistical Science at the University of Bristol.*

Prior to this role, I was a Senior Research Associate (also at the University of Bristol) working with Prof. Christophe Andrieu on the Bayes4Health grant, and also collaborating closely with Prof. Anthony Lee. 

Even further in the past, I was a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, working with Dr. Sergio Bacallado. You can find an online copy of my dissertation here.

If you are eager to contact me, then I encourage you to get in touch by email (sam.power@bristol.ac.uk). 

If you want to learn more about my research, then either navigate to my Research page, or jump directly to my Google Scholar profile. For some more informal research-oriented content, you might check out some of my Notes or Blog Posts.

*(not to be confused with the Sam Power who is Lecturer in Politics, also(!) at the University of Bristol.)

Research Interests

My research interests center around the design and analysis of stochastic algorithms, with applications mainly to statistics, using tools from probability and analysis.

I am particularly interested in Monte Carlo methods, such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Sequential Monte Carlo, and how the implementation of these methods can be made automatic, robust, and efficient. 

On the more mathematical side, exploring these topics lead to various interesting questions of a more general character, concerning stability of stochastic processes, the concentration of measure phenomenon, geometric functional inequalities, and beyond.

You can find more details on my Research page.