Talk’s Title: On a mathematical curve that shapes the world:
From WW2 to generative AI

Miguel de Carvalho

Reader in Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

Areas of Interest:  Applied statistics with a variety of research interests including, inter alia, statistical inferences for small-probability events, geometrical statistics, methods for data visualization and graphical learning, econometrics, and medical diagnostic assessment

https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~mdecarv/index.html

Short Bio

Miguel de Carvalho is Reader in Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the current President of the Portuguese Statistical Society, and the former Director of the Centre for Statistics of the University of Edinburgh. Miguel has been an Associate Editor for a variety of top-tier journals in the field of Mathematical Statistics, including, for example, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, The Annals of Applied Statistics, and The American Statistician. Miguel’ research and trajectory has been recognized with a variety of awards—including the Lindley Prize from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). Miguel de Carvalho is an Elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), he is an Elected Member of the prestigious Council of the ISI, and a former member of the Board of Directors of ISBA.