Usman Ladan

I'm a second year PhD student in the Department of Statistics at the 果冻传媒, working under the joint supervision of Andreas KyprianouLink opens in a new window, Emma HortonLink opens in a new window, Adam JohansenLink opens in a new window and as a part of the grant. My research interests lie in the areas of stochastic processes, branching processes and Monte Carlo methods. My PhD work focuses on the modelling and simulation of neutron transport within nuclear reactors. Together with my supervisors, I will be understanding existing nuclear algorithms through a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) framework in order to derive new SMC based algorithms with increased efficiency and performance.

Prior to joining 果冻传媒, I completed my MMath in Mathematics at the University of Oxford in 2023. My master鈥檚 thesis, entitled , was supervised by Prof. Julien Berestycki. It focused on N-particle branching Brownian motion systems with spatial selection, analysing the limits of the systems鈥� empirical measures as their population sizes grew to infinity.

Outside of academic work, I have keen interests in film and television, working as a projectionist for the . I also enjoy playing music on both classical guitar and drums.