Johnny MyungWon Lee
Me at Meadows My name is Myung Won (pronounced as M'yung Won) or Johnny Lee and I am a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh affiliated with the School of Mathematics and Maxwell Institue for Mathematical Sciences. Under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Paulin and Prof. Miguel de Carvalho, I belong to the Statistics group associated with Data and Decisions. My research is currently funded by the School of Mathematics PhD Studentships.

My primary research interests lie in the field of Bayesian Statistics, Extreme Value Theory and Neural Networks. They share the same goal of utilising the information and discovering insights through data. Currently, I am modelling heavy-tailed distributions and exploring regression frameworks for extremes together with shrinkage priors. I am also increasingly passionate about the intersection of our daily lives and statistics. This includes applications that draw inspiration from extreme events, finance, natural language processing that use machine learning to accelerate scientific discovery.

INTERESTS

  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Bayesian Regularisation
  • Extreme Value Theory
  • Neural Networks

EDUCATION

  •   PhD in Statistics,
      University of Edinburgh, UK

  •   BSc (Hons.) in Mathematics and Statistics,
      University of Edinburgh, UK

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