Oliver Feng

I am an Assistant Professor in Statistics at the London School of Economics. Previously, I was a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Bath, and also a student and postdoc at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor Richard J. Samworth.

My research interests include shape-constrained inference and robust statistics, as well as the statistical analysis of approximate message passing (AMP) algorithms.

Email: O.Feng [at] lse.ac.uk; of402 [at] bath.ac.uk

Address: Department of Statistics, Columbia House, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE

Publications and preprints

Preprints

Underwood, W. G., Reeve, H. W. J., Feng, O. Y., Lambert, S. A., Mukherjee, B. and Samworth, R. J. (2025). Upgrading survival models with CARE.

Feng, O. Y., Kao, Y.-C., Xu, M. and Samworth, R. J. (2024). Optimal convex M-estimation via score matching. Ann. Statist., to appear. Accompanying R package: asm.

Core statistical publications

Feng, O. Y., Venkataramanan, R., Rush, C. and Samworth, R. J. (2022). A unifying tutorial on Approximate Message Passing. Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, 15, 335–536.

Feng, O. Y., Chen Y., Han, Q., Carroll, R. J. and Samworth, R. J. (2022). Nonparametric, tuning-free estimation of S-shaped functions. J. Roy. Statist. Soc., Ser. B, 84, 1324–1352. Accompanying R package: Sshaped.

Feng, O. Y., Guntuboyina, A., Kim, A. K. H. and Samworth, R. J. (2021). Adaptation in multivariate log-concave density estimation. Ann. Statist., 49, 129–153.

Interdisciplinary collaborations

Ferreira, T., Collins, A. M., Handscombe, A., French, B., Bolton, E., Fortescue, A., Plumb, E. and Feng, O. (2025). Specialty choices among UK medical students: certainty, confidence and key influences—a national survey (FAST Study). BMJ Open, 15, e103061.

Ferreira, T., Collins, A. M., Handscombe, A., French, B., Bolton, E., Fortescue, A., Plumb, E. and Feng, O. (2025). Socioeconomic and demographic predictors of extracurricular achievements among UK medical students (FAST study). BMJ Open, 15, e103062.

Ferreira, T., Collins, A. M., Feng, O., Samworth, R. J., Horvath, R. and the AIMS Collaborative (2023). Career intentions of medical students in the UK: a national, cross-sectional study (AIMS study). BMJ Open, 13, e075598.

Schwiening, M., Swietlik, E. M., Pandya, D., Burling, K., Barker, P., Feng, O. Y., Treacy, C. M., Abreu, S., Wort, S. J., Pepke-Zaba, J., Graf, S., Marciniak, S. J., Morrell, N. W. and Soon, E. (2022). Different cytokine patterns in BMPR2-mutation positive patients and pulmonary arterial hypertension patients without mutations and their influence on survival. Chest, 161, 1651–1656.

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Teaching

In the Winter Term 2026, I will be teaching ST304: Time Series and Forecasting. Course materials can be found on Moodle.

From 2023–25, I taught MA40092: Classical Statistical Inference at the University of Bath.

I was a Teaching By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge from 2021–23. I supervised many undergraduate courses, including Part IA Probability; Part IB Linear Algebra, Markov Chains, Statistics and Optimisation; Part II Mathematics of Machine Learning, Principles of Statistics and Probability and Measure. I also gave examples classes for Part III Topics in Statistical Theory.

In 2022, I gave a graduate course on Nonparametric Inference under Shape Constraints.

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