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Chris Holmes (mathematician)

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British statistician

Christopher C. Holmes
Chris Holmes
Alma mater	Imperial College London
Scientific career
Fields	Biostatistics
Institutions	University of Oxford
Thesis	Bayesian methods for nonlinear classification and regression (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Bani K. Mallick

Christopher C. Holmes is a Britishstatistician. He has held the position of Professor of Biostatistics in Genomics in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and the Department of Statistics at theUniversity of Oxford since September 2014, a post that carries with it aFellowship ofSt Anne's College, Oxford.^[1] Previously he was titular Professor ofBiostatistics and a Fellow ofLincoln College. After working in industry he completed hisdoctorate inBayesian statistics atImperial College, London, supervised byAdrian Smith.^[2]

Holmes's research interests are inspatial statistics, Bayesiannon-parametrics and statistical problems ingenetics. He is one of the co-founders of theOxford-Man Institute. Holmes was awarded the 2003 Research Prize^[3] and the 2009Guy Medal in Bronze^[4] by theRoyal Statistical Society.

^"Appointments: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences/Medical Sciences".Oxford University Gazette.145 (5084). University of Oxford. 29 January 2015. Archived fromthe original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved3 February 2015.
^"Christopher Holmes - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". Retrieved2020-12-12.
^2003 Society Medals & Prizes.Archived October 27, 2006, at theWayback Machine Royal Statistical Society. Accessed January 23, 2010. Award Citation:"The Research Prize for 2003 is awarded to Christopher Holmes for his important original contributions to statistical methodology, including work on Bayesian regression with wavelets and other basis functions, partitioning modelling, pattern recognition and perfect sampling"
^2009 Society Medals & Prizes.^{[permanent dead link]}Royal Statistical Society. Accessed January 23, 2010.