Dr Shahin Tavakoli

Assistant Professor of Statistics

University of Warwick

About

I am an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Warwick. My research interests include functional data analysis, and applications to (neuro-)imaging, genomics, phonetics, biophysics, and econometrics (see publications below).

My office hours in term 1 are Thursdays 13:30-14:30, Fridays 09:30-10:30.

More information are available in my short bio. See also my Warwick webpage.

(Picture courtesy of Archives of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.)

Recent News

October 2019: Our paper on modelling dialect sounds variations is now published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory & Methods) as a discussion paper.
June 2019: New preprint available: High-dimensional Functional Factor Models.

Recent Publications

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Shahin Tavakoli, Davide Pigoli, John AD Aston, John Coleman (2019). A Spatial Modeling Approach for Linguistic Object Data: Analysing dialect sound variations across Great Britain. Journal of the American Statistical Association 114(527).

Preprint Bibtex Published Paper Rejoinder

Gilles Nisol, Shahin Tavakoli, Marc Hallin (2019). High-dimensional Functional Factor Models. Arxiv Preprint.

Preprint

Marius A Tirlea, Shahin Tavakoli, Davide Pigoli, John AD Aston (2017). A Ticklish Problem: Studying Accent Variation from Speech Recordings. Significance, (14)2.

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