Data Science Applications - Environment/Ecology: Professor Ruth King, University of Edinburgh

Bio Ruth King is the Thomas Bayes Chair of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh. She was awarded her PhD in 2001 from the University of Bristol. She then held positions at the Universities of Cambridge (PDRA; 2001-3) and St Andrews (lecturer 2003-10; reader 2010-15) before taking up her appointment at the University of Edinburgh in 2015. Research My main research interests involve the development of new statistical models and associated model-fitting techniques and their application to real data problems. Particular areas of interest include hidden Markov models/state-space models; missing data; Bayesian inference; incorporating different forms of heterogeneity; capture-recapture; and applications particularly within ecology and epidemiology. #datascienceclasses