Po-Ling Loh is an American theoretical statistician based at the University of Cambridge. She discusses her childhood, choosing a university, and her path to higher dimensional statistics and differential privacy.
She also compares life as an academic in the US and UK.
This episode was made possible by the Leverhulme Trust, a UK-based organisation which fu ... Show More
Jan 2025
Episode 374: WDx #34: It’s Not a Meritocracy
Description: Kaylin, Sharmin, and Cheryl are joined by Dr. Arghavan Salles. They discuss career transitions/pivots, challenging workplace experiences, social/digital media use, and thoughts on allyship and gender biases/stereotype threat as self-identified angry women. Bio: Dr. S ... Show More
1h 22m
May 2024
EP 133: Insights into pharmacogenomics and increasing diversity in genomics research with Dr. Emma Magavern
Join us as we welcome Dr. Emma Magavern to The Genetics Podcast! In addition to being a medical doctor with an English Literature degree, Dr. Magovern is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre of Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine at Queen Mary, Barts, and the London ... Show More
39m 17s
Nov 2017
Lakatos Award Lectures [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Brian Epstein, Dr Thomas Pradeu | The Lakatos Award is given for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the previous five years. The 2015 award winner Dr Pradeu will speak on W ... Show More
1h 36m