Brett Houlding
Assistant Professor
Statistics
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
From 2000 to 2004 I obtained an undergraduate Master of Mathematics (MMath I class honours) from Trevelyan College, Durham University, UK. I then proceeded as a PhD student (EPSRC funded) of Trevelyan College, Durham University in the field of Statistics. This was under the supervision of Prof. Franciscus Petrus Antonius Coolen of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. In 2008 my thesis titled 'Sequential Decision Making with Adaptive Utility' was successfully defended at a viva voce examination and in 2009 I was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy from Durham University. In May 2008 I joined Trinity College Dublin as a post-doctoral research fellow within the Center for Telecommunications Value-Chain (CTVR) research group under the supervision of Prof. Simon Paul Wilson, this was further followed in May 2009 as a research fellow within the STATICA group headed by the same Prof. Wilson. In October 2011 I was appointed to the post of Assistant Professor in Statistics (5 year term) within the School of Computer Science and Statistics of Trinity College Dublin. The position was later confirmed to an established academic post of the School of Computer Science and Statistics in October 2015.
Research Interest
Biological Modeling; Biostatistical methods; Criminal Statistics; Data Analysis; Decision Sciences; Forensic Law; Game Theory; Operations Research; Optimization; Probability; RELIABILITY THEORY; Risk Factors/Analysis; Signal processing; Simulation and modelling transportation networks; Statistical and simulation methodologies; Statistics; Stochastic Processes; Utilities
Publications
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Coolen, F.P.A. and Houlding, B. and Parkinson, S., Jury Size and Composition - A Predictive Approach, ISIPTA 07, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-19 July 2007, edited by De Cooman, G. and Vejarnova, J. and M. Zaffalon , 2007, pp87 - 96
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S.P.Wilson, B. Houlding, A. Bhattacharya and T. Forde, A fast Bayesian model for a latent radio signal , Workshop on Stochastic Processes for Wireless Networks, Seoul, Korea, 2009, 2009
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Ben Flood, Brett Houlding, Simon P. Wilson, Sergiy Vilkomir., A probability model of system downtime with implications for optimal warranty design , Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 26, (1), 2009, 83 - 96
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Brett Houlding and Simon P. Wilson, Considerations on the UK re-arrest hazard rate analysis, Journal of Law, Probability and Risk, 10, (4), 2011, p303 - 328
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Brett Houlding and Simon P. Wilson, Considerations on the UK Re-Arrest Hazard Data Analysis (How Model Selection Can Alter Conclusions for Policy Development), 58th Congress of the International Statistical Institute, Dublin, Ireland, 21/08/11 - 26/08/11, 2011
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B. Houlding and F.P.A. Coolen, Adaptive utility and trial aversion, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 141, (2), 2011, p734-747
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Coolen FPA, Houlding B, & Parkinson G, Considerations on Jury Size and Composition using Lower Probabilities, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 141, (1), 2011, p382 - 391
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Houlding B & Haslett J, Method and System for Scheduling of Events, 2011
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Costello MJ, Wilson S, Houlding B, Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort., Systematic biology, 61, (5), 2012, p871-83
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Mark Costello, Simon P. Wilson and Brett Houlding, Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort, Systematic Biology, 61, (5), 2012, p871 - 883
