
Desmond Higham
@deshigham
mathematics, computation, stochastics, AI, networks
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https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~dhigham/ 19-10-2012 22:33:08
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We won the Equate Scotland Student Society of the Year award! Thank you to everyone who has been involved with Piscopia since our founding 🥳 #Celebration






In SIAM News, Ernest Davis reviews two recent #books about #FacialRecognition technology and associated implications for personal privacy and inequality: "Unmasking AI" by Dr. Joy Buolamwini and "Your Face Belongs to Us" by Kashmir Hill. Read more: sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/t…






Job posting...come and join us! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader in Applied Mathematics UofG Maths and Stats University of Glasgow jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF628/lec…

Nicholas Higham—a leading researcher and communicator in computational and #AppliedMathematics and a former president of SIAM—passed away on January 20, 2024. Desmond Higham and Francoise Tisseur remember his extraordinary life in SIAM News. Read more: sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/o…


Ever wondered how population counts are done? Tune in to our new episode with Ruth King about the use of statistics and how it can be used to benefit our world. . Listen now link in bio! . #maths #statistics #science #stem #sciencemedia Edinburgh Uni Maths Bayes Centre







Happy to share that I'll be joining the School of Maths Edinburgh Uni Maths as a Chancellor's fellow (~tenure track assistant prof). Will be continuing to apply probabilistic thinking to genomics. Very grateful for all support and encouragement I've received. Come say hi if in town!
