About Me
I am currently a junior assistant professor (RTD-A) at the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale under the mentorship of Prof. Aldo Goia and Prof. Enea Bongiorno. Starting in July 2024, I will be an assistant professor at the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham.
My main research interests are in Functional data analysis (specifically in Small-ball probability, Single Functional Index Model). As a secondary interest, I am interested also in Multiple Systems estimation and its application to human rights.
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Academic Positions
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale
Assistant Professor
2022 - Present
Postdoctoral research assistant
2020 - 2022
Dipartimento di STUDI PER L'ECONOMIA E L'IMPRESA (DISEL), Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
I am currently an Junior Assistant Professor. I previously was a postdoctoral research assistant in the same department under the supervision of Prof. Aldo Goia and Prof. Enea Bongiorno
The Open University, Milton Keynes
Research Associate
2019 - 2020
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Funded by AND Technology and Research, I worked under the supervision of Dr. Danica Greetham on energy disaggregation algorithms.
University of Nottingham
Research fellow
2018 - 2019
Research Assistant
2017 - 2018
Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute and the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
I was a research assistant mentored by Dr. Iker Perez and Dr. Mercedes Torres Torres and worked on clustering algorithms and Bayesian inference. I then worked as a research fellow under the mentorship of Sir Bernard Silverman and worked on developing methodlogies in Multiple Systems estimation and its application to human rights.
Education
The Open University Milton Keynes
Ph.D. in Mathematics
2014 - 2018
The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
I worked under the joint supervision of Professor Uwe Grimm and Dr. Ian Short. Thesis title: Continuous spectra for substitution-based sequences. Defended in 2017, title awarded officially in 2018.
University of Liverpool
M.Sc. in Mathematical Sciences
2013 - 2014
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
I specialised in Pure mathematics, in particular on geometry and number theory.
Thesis title: Dynamics of low-discrepancy sequences
Advisor: Dr. Radhakrishnan Nair.
University of Liverpool
B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics
2010 - 2013
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
I have taken a range of Pure, applied mathematics and statistics courses. In the third year, I specialised in Pure mathematics.
Thesis title: Tiling with dominoes.
Advisor: Prof. Anna Pratoussevitch.
Publications
Articles in refereed journals
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Silverman, B.W., Chan, L., Vincent, K. (2024). Bootstrapping Multiple Systems Estimates to Account for Model Selection. Statistics and Computing 34(44). [Link]
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Bongiorno, E. G., Chan, L., Goia. A. (2023). Detecting the complexitiy of a Functional time series. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics [Link]
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Chan, L., Delsol, L., Goia, A. (2023). A link function specification test in the Single Functional Index Model. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification [Link]
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Chan, L., Silverman, B.W., Vincent, K. (2021). Multiple Systems Estimation for sparse capture data: inferential challenges when there are non-overlapping lists. Journal of American Statistical Association 116(535), 1297–1306. [Link] [R package]
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Dryden, I., Goulding, J. Preston, S., Chan, L. (2020). Discussion of Multiple-systems analysis for the quantification of modern slavery: classical and Bayesian approaches by Silverman. Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series A 183(3), 691–736. [Link]
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Chan, L., Grimm, U., Short, I. (2018). Substitution-based structures with absolutely continuous spectrum. Indagationes Mathematicae 29(4), 1072–1086. [Link]
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Chan, L., Grimm. U. (2017). Spectrum of a Rudin–Shapiro-like sequence. Advances in Applied Mathematics 87, 16–23. [Link]
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Chan, K., Nair. R. (2014). Problems in Strong Uniform Distribution. Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications 59, 51–64. [Link]
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Chan, K., Nair. R. (2014). A remark on the distribution of Chebyshev polynomials on [−1,1]. Uniform distribution theory 9(2), 125–134 [Link]
My registered name at the University of Liverpool was Kwo Chan, short for Kwo Lik Lax Chan.
Submitted papers
Conference proceedings and technical report
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Bongiorno, E.G., Chan, L., Goia, A. (2023) Nonparametric dimensionality detection for functional data COMPSTAT 2023 Book of Abstracts, ISBN 9789073592414 [Link]
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Chan, L. (2023) On specifying a link function of a single functional index model. COMPSTAT 2023 Book of Abstracts, ISBN 9789073592414 [Link]
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Chan, L., Goia, A. (2023) Goodness–of–fit test for the single functional index model. Cladag 2023 Book of short papers, ISBN 978-88-9193-563-2 [Link]
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Chan, L. (2022) A specification test for the single functional index model. CFE-CMStatistics 2022 Book of Abstracts, ISBN 9789925781263 [Link]
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Bongiorno, E.G., Chan, L., Goia, A. (2021) Evaluating the complexity of a functional time series. CFE-CMStatistics 2021 Book of Abstracts, ISBN 9789925781256 [Link]
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Bongiorno, E.G., Chan, L., Goia, A., Vieu, P. (2021) About the complexity of a functional time series. IWFOS 2021 Book of Abstracts [Link]
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Perez, I., Chan, L., Torres, T. M., Goulding, J., Kypraios, T. (2018) On Bayesian inferential tasks with infinite-state jump processes: efficient data augmentation. Technical report [arXiv]
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Chan, L., Grimm, U. Substitution-based sequences with absolutely continuous diffraction, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 809(012027) [Link]
Awards
Academic awards
- Young scientist award to attend International conference on Quasicrystals Kathmandu, Nepal 2016
- Partial funding to attend thematic month Oleron, France 2-16
- Fully funded studentship with stipend 2014-2017
- Liverpool affinity award 2013-2014
- Faculty of physical sciences and engineering post graduate scholarship 2013-2014
- University of Liverpool Departmental Scholarship for M.Sc. students 2013-2014
- University of Liverpool Regional award 2010-2013