"SAMBa offers high level training in statistical and applied mathematical disciplines, as well as direct engagement with industrial partners"
Before joining SAMBa, I did a BSc in Mathematics at the University of Torino and then a Masters at Collegio Carlo Alberto. My research involved multilevel methods, MCMC algorithms, transport maps and Bayesian inverse problems. In particular, I worked with computationally expensive high-dimensional problems, trying to reduce the cost per iteration and performing algorithms that scale well in high dimension.
In my third year, I was selected to join the Turing Enrichment programme (https://www.turing.ac.uk/workturing/studentships/enrichment) and spent a year in London building new collaborations and broadening my research. Following that I took on an internship working for a small data science company in London. Finally I spent a year at the University of Heidelberg, working with one of my supervisors. I am now working for Amazon in Berlin as a Machine Learning Scientist.
SAMBa gave me a broad base of training, access to lots of excellent research and confidence in engaging with applications. The opportunities to spend time in London and Heidelberg broadened my perspective and personal network a lot and meant I had a really strong and varied CV which helped me stand out to employers.
SAMBa offers high level training in statistical and applied mathematical disciplines, as well as direct engagement with industrial partners. The faculty is friendly and cohesive, which makes the experience great for interdisciplinary studies. It’s a well orchestrated, fast growing reality. I could not recommend it more.
The ITTs were invaluable in providing experience in collaborating effectively with others on large projects, understanding and synthesising new information quickly, and liasing with academic leads and commercial partners
I joined thinking I wanted to do one type of PhD but ended up doing a completely different one due to the flexibility that was provided in finding/forming a PhD during the masters year
SAMBa exposes students to a wide range of cutting edge statistical and mathematical research that will be useful to them in their PhD and later career
I was able to use the SAMBa training in statistics, to support training workshops in Mexico and in fact took a break from my PhD to take on a statistics teaching assistant role.
I enjoyed the big portfolio of opportunities I was given, which I believe is an essential property of SAMBa and something which truly makes the programme worth it
You get a lot of freedom to choose your research area...and there is a wide range of research areas within the department from which to choose
I found the one-on-one reading courses an incredible opportunity to both learn about a topic in detail, and to get to know a potential area and supervisor before starting my PhD
I can't imagine studying for my PhD anywhere other than SAMBa
I really valued the experience of being part of a cohort of students in SAMBa, which guaranteed that we were not doing our PhDs in isolation, despite working intensively on independent projects
The SAMBa team understands how to efficiently bridge the gap between the abstract world of mathematics and statistics to industrial research
