Recent PhD theses awarded in the Department of Statistics, University of Leeds

2009

• Niloufar Abouraschi. Stochastic financial mathematics. Supervisors J.T. Kent and A.Y. Veretennikov.
• Reman Abu-Shanab. Information inequalities and parameter estimation. Supervisors J.T. Kent and A.Y. Veretennikov.
• Georgios Aivaliotis. Controlled Markov diffusions and "mean-variance" optimisation . Supervisors J.T. Kent and A.Yu. Veretennikov.
• John Davies. Statistical methods for matching protein-ligand binding sites Supervisors K.V. Mardia, C.C. Taylor and R.M. Jackson.
• Emma Petty. Shape analysis in bioinformatics. Supervisors K.V. Mardia and C.C. Taylor.
• Farag Shuweihdi. Clustering and classification with shape examples. Supervisor C.C. Taylor.

2008

• Alex Goodwin. Wavelet analysis of temporal data. Supervisors R.G. Aykroyd and S. Barber
• Weiqi Luo. Spatial/temporal modelling of crop disease data using high-dimensional regression. Supervisors P.D. Baxter and C.C. Taylor.
• Ali Mohammadian Mosamam. New statistical methods for splines and spatial-temporal modelling. Supervisor J.T. Kent.
• Rebecca Walls. Statistical analysis of genomic and proteomic data. Supervisors S.Barber, M.S. Gilthorpe (Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and J.T. Kent.

2007

• Gareth Hughes. Multivariate and time series models for circular data with applications to protein conformational angles. Supervisors K.V. Mardia and C.C. Taylor.
• Raed Saed. Spatio-temporal modelling for seismic data. Supervisor R.G. Aykroyd.

2006

• Vysaul Nyirongo. Statistical approaches to protein matching in bioinformatics. Supervisor K.V. Mardia.

2005

• Ali Al-Hajraf. The kriged Kalman filter and its applications. Supervisor K.V. Mardia.
• Jamal Bugrien. Robust approaches to clustering based on density estimation and projection. Supervisor J.T. Kent.
• Fathi Hamed. Geometric modelling and identification of structure in image data. Supervisor R.G. Aykroyd.
• Matthew Langdon. Classification of images and censored data. Supervisors R.M. West (Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics), C.C. Taylor, P.A. Dowd (SPEME) and Dr D Goddard (BNFL).
• Kolamunnage Ruwanthi. Statistical shape analysis for bilateral symmetry. Supervisor J.T. Kent.
• Ganesh Krishnan Subramaniam. Von Mises distributions with applications in speech data. Supervisors K.V. Mardia and C.C. Taylor.

2004

• Kassim Mwitondi. Robust methods in data mining. Supervisors J.T. Kent and C.C. Taylor.

2003

• Salem Al-Gezeri. Modelling of multivariate data in archaeological geophysics. Supervisor R.G. Aykroyd.
• Yousef El-Gimati. Bootstrapping techniques to improve classification methods. Supervisor C.C. Taylor.
• Veronica Lima. Resistant fitting methods for statistical shape comparison. Supervisor J.T. Kent.

2002

• Paul McDonnell. Planar shape distributions and image averaging. Supervisor K.V. Mardia and I.L. Dryden.

2001

• Karen Oldman. Classification of data from a digital chemical sensor array system. Supervisor C.C. Taylor.
• Bree Waine. Face analysis and the bivariate wrapped Cauchy distribution. Supervisors K.V. Mardia and R.G. Aykroyd.

2000

• Rahman Farnoosh. Statistical analysis of nearly regular point patterns and images. Supervisors C.C. Taylor and I.L. Dryden.
• Deborah Godwin. Deformations in shape analysis. Supervisor J.T. Kent.

1999

• Fikret Er. Robust methods in statistical shape analysis. Supervisors P.D.L. Constable and J.T. Kent.
• Gary Walker. Robust, non-parametric and automatic methods for matching spatial point patterns. Supervisors J.T. Kent, I.L. Dryden, and C.A. Glasbey (BioSS, Edinburgh)

1998

• Jayne Kirkbride. Fusion, statistical shape and photograph identification. Supervisor K.V. Mardia.
• Ian Moreton. Statistics of bilateral symmetry of shapes. Supervisor K.V. Mardia.
• Mark Scarr. Texture modelling and classification using statistical image analysis. Supervisors C.C. Taylor and I.L. Dryden.

1997

• Gayle Allum. A statistical approach to inverse data problems in archaeological geophysics. Supervisor R.G. Aykroyd.
• Catherine Anderson. Object recognition using statistical shape analysis. Supervisors J.T. Kent and I.L. Dryden.
• Xiaojuan Feng. Shape analysis of fingerprint scans and spinal data. Supervisors K.V. Mardia and A.J. Baczkowski.
• Mohsen Mohammadzadeh. Kriging methods in statistical spatial data. Supervisor J.T. Kent.
• Gebriel Shamia. Statistical properties of generalized diversity indices. Supervisors D.N. Joanes and A.J. Baczkowski.
• Harry Southworth. Classification of spatial data using neural networks and statistical methods. Supervisors K.V. Mardia and C.C. Taylor.
• Stelios Zimeras. Statistical models in medical image analysis. Supervisor R.G. Aykroyd.