Theresa R Smith

4 West 5.15
Dept of Mathematical Sciences
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
email: t.r.smith 'at' bath.ac.uk

I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath. I am currently Head of Group for Statistics and Probability and Deputy Director of the SAMBa CDT. I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2009 with a BA in History and a BS in Statistics. I did my PhD in Statistics at the University of Washington from 2009 to 2014.

Research Interests

Applications of statistics to health and the social sciences.
Methods for data with spatial or longitudinal dependence.
Development and communication of clinical decision support tools.

Recent Publications

Basson, M., Louw, T.M. and Smith, T.R. (2023) Variational Tobit Gaussian process regression. Statistics and Computing.
Gascoigne, C., and Smith, T.R. (2023) Penalised smoothing splines resolve the curvature identifiability problem in age-period-cohort models with unequal intervals. Statistics in Medicine.
Faraway, J., Boxall-Clasby, J., Feil, E.J., Gibbon, M.J., Hatfield, O., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., and Smith, T. (2022) Challenges in realising the potential of wastewater-based epidemiology to quantitatively monitor and predict the spread of disease. Journal of Water & Health.

Recent Funded Projects

AI for Collective Intelligence. A UKRI AI Research Hub Led by the University of Bristol (Co-I, 2024 - ongoing).
Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection: WBE@Bath. Funded by Research England's E3 program. (Co-I, 2024 - ongoing).
Super Rehab trials in collaboration with the Royal United Hospital in Bath (trial statistician, 2022 – ongoing). Funders: Study 1 (Coronary Artery Disease) – NIHR; Study 2 (Atrial Fibrillation) – RUHX.
Royal Society short industry fellowship with Mayden (PI, 2021-2022).

News

I am thrilled to be a Theme Lead for Healthcare Ecosystems in the new £12M AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) research hub led by Bristol with partners in Cardiff, Exeter, UCL, Glasgow and Ulster.
Starting in February 2024, I am Head of Group for Statistics and Probability and Deputy Director of the SAMBa CDT. I look forward to supporting the transformation of our teaching programmes at all levels and continuing to strengthen Bath's reputation for interdisciplinary and industrial collaboration in mathematics.
My PhD student, Laura Oporto Lisboa, passed her viva in September 2023. Laura is the first woman from Paraguay with a Maths PhD and is now Mathematical Innovation Research Associate at Bath's Institute for Mathematical Innovation.
I joined the Editorial Board of Significance Magazine in July 2023.
My PhD student, Connor Gascoigne, passed his viva with no corrections in September 2022! Connor is now a post doc in Biostatistics at Imperial College London.

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Last Modified: 11 April 2024