LSE Department of Statistics

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⏰Event happening tomorrow⏰ On 21 October, we are delighted to host a talk with Prof Michael Jordan (University of California, Berkeley) who will present ‘A collectivist, economic perspective on AI’. Join for drinks in the Staff Common Room, 5th floor Old Building, LSE afterwards! 🔗 bit.ly/3VaAGwG

🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog

What’s the role of humans in an AI world? A bigger one than you might think. Frederic Kalinke of Exactimo reflects on hosting three LSE Statistics data science interns this summer, and on the human skills AI can’t replace. www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/t...

⏰ONE WEEK TO GO!⏰ On 21 October, we are delighted to host a talk with Prof Michael Jordan (University of California, Berkeley) who will present ‘A collectivist, economic perspective on AI’, joined by discussant Prof Max Kasy (University of Oxford) 🔗 bit.ly/3VaAGwG

On 21 October, we are delighted to host a talk with Prof Michael Jordan (University of California, Berkeley) who will present ‘A collectivist, economic perspective on AI’, joined by discussant Prof Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford). Register here!🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/events/econo... #LSEEvents

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Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events

🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog

Read our new blog by Ang Yu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) & Felix Elwert (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - 'Why group disparities persist: A new way to break down the causes'. 👉 Find their blog here, inc links to the award-winning full paper: tinyurl.com/ynkv6bhh

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🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog

Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events

Everyone in the Department extends a very warm welcome to Visiting Research Student, Thomas Borsani, who joins this summer. Thomas is currently a PhD student in Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Welcome Thomas! 🇮🇹 🇬🇧

📣 Calling all LSE Stats students: professional development opportunity with Red Hat! Red Hat are hosting a week-long student bootcamp re open-source tech, career insights, & how modern IT infrastructure operates in the real world. Interested? Reg here: reg.experiences.redhat.com/flow/redhat/...

🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog

Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events

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🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog

Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events

✈️ 🇺🇲 🍏 Dr Giulia Livieri visited the Big Apple last week to present ‘Testing for endogeneity of irregular sampling schemes’ at the MPSS Conference on Financial Econometrics that took place at Princeton University. Giulia's associated paper 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4307336

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Day 1 of our Research Showcase 2026 is done — a full day on generative AI with speakers from Meta, Barclays, AstraZeneca, GitHub Next, Cambridge, and our own department. Talks, posters, and plenty of conversation. Days 2 and 3 to come. 📊

We're excited to partner at #AISummit London! Join us 10 June at Tobacco Dock for AI career insights. 📍 #LondonTechWeek #LSE

Marcos Barreto will be our closing speaker at next week's Research Showcase industry 'Workshop on Generative AI: Research Advances & Applications' - presenting 'Rethinking core skills in programming education in the age of AI agents' 👉 Info & reg: tinyurl.com/b6nffrsz

🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog

🎙️ Giulia Livieri presents her research on endogeneity tests in high-frequency finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, 21 May. Find out more here: https://www.eur.nl/en/ese/events/testing-endogeneity-irregular-sampling-schemes-2026-05-21

What if your AI model looks fair, but only on average...? New 'The Measure of it' blog out now: 'Beyond average: A new approach to multicalibration brings group fairness to web scale'. Read our introduction to the powerful ML algorithm 'MCGrad' here: tinyurl.com/y3mrppdx

Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events

Join the Department of Statistics as we host Dr Sander Beckers from the Department of Statistical Science, UCL as he looks at Large Language Models as Nondeterministic Causal Models 21 May 2026 2.30pm - 3.30pm LSE, Columbia House Leverhulme Library

Dr Giulia Livieri received 2nd place in the #LSE Photo Competition! Giulia's photo is titled "Reflected Futures" with 'The Shard rising in a rain puddle beside older houses & bare branches, the photo turns an ordinary pavement into a layered image of London where past, present & future meet.'

The speakers for our 2026 Research Showcase 'Workshop on Generative AI: Research Advances & Applications' is almost complete - Barclays' Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos (Head of AI/ML & Quantum Technologies) has joined the lineup. 👉 Free ticket & programme here: tinyurl.com/b6nffrsz

Last night 200+ clinicians, policy makers, pharma leaders and health tech founders gathered at LSE to hear PharmovoAI's Akber Tahir on using predictive AI to stop medicine shortages before they happen. A brilliant start to our In-Practice lecture series. More to come. 🔬 #HealthcareAI #DataScience

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We're excited to welcome Rodolphe Jenatton, Co-Founder & CTO of Bioptimus, for our Industry Seminar on 19 May, 15:00 at Columbia House, LSE! 📍🗓⏰ #Bioptimus #AI Sign up: https://forms.office.com/e/yBDvsb6FgX

📢It's another speaker announcement for you re the LSE Dep of Stats Research Showcase 2026... GitHub's Principal Researcher, Don Syme, will present 'Agentic Repository Automation with GitHub Agentic Workflows'. Event open to all, register here today!: lse.ac.uk/statistics/e...

🎉New blog alert!🎉 Our wonderful MSc Data Science student Amara Jane Otero Salgado shares her recent insights on working as a Research Assistant at LSE. Read her blog here➡️https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog/on-working-as-an-lse-research-assistant

We loved seeing so many of you at our Statistics Undergraduate Offer Holder Day today!☺️☀️ Applicants with an offer for entry in September '26 came to #LSE to hear talks from our amazing BSc Programme Directors and get to know each other. We are excited for you to become #PartofLSE🥳

Subscribe to our quarterly LSE Statistics external newsletter and get our updates and developments delivered direct to your inbox. Enter your name + email address here and away you go! https://mailchi.mp/9410d12b2863/subscribe-to-the-lse-department-of-statistics-newsletter-and-events-mailing-list

📢We have another speaker announcement for you today re the LSE Dep of Stats Research Showcase 2026: Tatiana Shavrina, Research Scientist Manager at Meta will present 'Advancing Scientific Research with AI Research Agents'. Event open to all. 👉Register here today!: lse.ac.uk/statistics/e...

📢We're delighted to announce that Yi Wei (Lead, Deep Learning Team AstraZeneca) will be joining us at our 'Workshop on Generative AI: Research Advances & Applications', on 26 May, part of the 3 day LSE Dep of Stats Research Showcase 2026. 👉Reg: www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events/research-showcase-2026

What a brilliant day at LSE Undergraduate Open Day! Thanks to Pik, Gelly, and all who joined us to explore Statistics. Learn more: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/prospective-students/bsc-programmes

Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events

📣 New blog published! tinyurl.com/yfh3zat4 'Working with international trade data to establish robust evidence in turbulent times' by Dr Francesca Torti (European Commission). 🧐Read about her work exploring the use of statistical methods to identify customs duty evasion & sanctions circumvention.

🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog

💥Registration is now open for the LSE Dep of Stats Research Showcase 2026! Join us for 3 days packed with: industry, faculty & PhD student speakers; new & emerging research highlights; drinks reception & in-person networking opportunities. Get your free tickets now👇 lse.ac.uk/statistics/e...

Welcome back, everyone 👋 A new term begins—whether coursework, exams, or dissertation, we're rooting for you. Take care and reach out for support!

ESCoE will host a World Bank workshop on exploring global poverty and inequality data. This will take place at 14:00 – 16:00 on Thursday 21 May 2026 at @kingsbschool.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Find out more and register: tinyurl.com/28kerx48

Join Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yu Ang, University of Hong Kong on the 14th of April in the Leverhulme Library for a talk exploring how Four-part causal decomposition explains disparities, with robust estimators and policy insights on education’s role in mobility.