Jeremie Houssineau

Current research

I am an Assistant Professor in the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. I also hold an honorary Associate Professor position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick.

Prospective PhD students with a background in Mathematics, Statistics or Statistical Signal Processing can contact me to discuss opportunities.

My main research interest is: Tackling challenges in statistical inference by leveraging a combination of possibility theory and probability theory to model both epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty. Applications include robust inference, reinforcement learning, active learning and multi-target tracking.

I am also on the Editorial Board of Statistics and Computing.

Previous positions

2019-2023: Assistant professor, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, tenured in 2023
2016-2018: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore
2011-2015: PhD student, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
2009-2011: Research engineer, Naval Group

Past PhD students

Jiajie Zeng (2016-2020): Computational Methods for Multiple Target Tracking (with Ajay Jasra)
Chatchuea Kimchaiwong (2019-2024): Possibilistic Ensemble Kalman Filtering (with Adam Johansen)

Current PhD students

Jake Thomas (2019-2025): RL via possibility theory
Ting Zhu (2021-2025): Multi-agent RL – agent modelling other agents (with Giovanni Montana)
Sharlin Utke (2021-2025): A relational approach to multi-agent RL (with Giovanni Montana)
Nati Neggatu (2021-2025): Methods for off-line multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (with Giovanni Montana)
Yihui Tong (2023-2027): Developing the capability to forecast extreme Space Weather events (with Ravindra Desai)
Bingran Guo (2024-2028): Robust inference with possibility theory
Jiaqi (Noame) Qin (2025-2029)

Current Research Fellows

Shelvia Wongso (2025-)
Yao Ni (2025-)
Gregor Steiner (2025-2026)
Jasraj Singh (2025-2026)

Recent collaborators

Han Cai (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Pierre Del Moral (INRIA Bordeaux, France)
Emmanuel D. Delande (CNES, France)
Ajay Jasra (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Dann Laneuville (Naval Group, France)
David Nott (NUS, Singapore)
Branko Ristić (RMIT, Australia)
Murat Üney (University of Liverpool, UK)

Events

I was the main organiser of the 50th anniversary conference of the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick, held on September 7-9, 2022
I was the co-chair of the First International Summer School on Finite Set Statistics, held in Edinburgh July 22-26, 2013 (Lecture notes).

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