Spectral estimation for spatial point processes and random fields
Jake Grainger, Tuomas Rajala, David Murrell, Sofia Olhede, "Spectral estimation for spatial point processes and random fields." arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10176, 2024.
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Education
- 2019–22: Ph.D., Statistics, Spectral Time Series Analysis of Ocean Wave Buoy Measurements, Lancaster University (Advisors: Prof. Adam Sykulski, Prof. Philip Jonathan, Prof. Rob Lamb)
- 2018–19: M.Res., Statistics and operational research, Distinction, Lancaster University
- 2015–18: B.Sc. (Hons), Mathematics, First Class Honours, Lancaster University
Research Experience
- 2022–present: Collaborateur Scientifique (Post-doc), Statistical Data Science, EPFL, (Advisor: Prof. Sofia Olhede)
Publications
What is the Fourier transform of a spatial point process?
Tuomas Rajala, Sofia Olhede, Jake Grainger, David Murrell, "What is the Fourier transform of a spatial point process?." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2023.
Visualizing the Wavenumber Content of a Point Pattern
Jake Grainger, Tuomas Rajala, David Murrell, Sofia Olhede, "Visualizing the Wavenumber Content of a Point Pattern." IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2023.
A multivariate pseudo-likelihood approach to estimating directional ocean wave models
Jake Grainger, Adam Sykulski, Kevin Ewans, Hans Hansen, Philip Jonathan, "A multivariate pseudo-likelihood approach to estimating directional ocean wave models." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, 2023.
Estimating the parameters of ocean wave spectra
Jake Grainger, Adam Sykulski, Philip Jonathan, Kevin Ewans, "Estimating the parameters of ocean wave spectra." Ocean Engineering, 2021.
Talks
Partial statistics for point patterns and other spatial data
Conference talk at Royal Statistical Society 2025 International Conference, Edinburgh, UK
Spectral estimation for spatial point processes and random fields
Seminar at Imperial Statistics Seminar, London, UK
Spectral estimation for spatial point processes and random fields
Conference talk at Royal Statistical Society 2024 International Conference, Brighton, UK
Spectral estimation for spatial point processes and random fields
Seminar at Online Seminar on Spatial and spatio-temporal Point processes and beyond, OSSP
Spectral estimation for spatial point processes and random fields
Conference talk at 2023 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS), Lisbon, Portugal
Parametric estimation of the frequency-direction spectrum for ocean waves
Workshop at Workshop on Environmental Time Series Analysis, Maastricht University – School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands
Ocean Wave Spectra: Fitting models to data and resolving sources of uncertainty
Talk at Ocean Sciences Meeting, Virtual
Modelling the frequency domain behaviour of ocean waves
Conference talk at Royal Statistical Society 2021 International Conference, Manchester, UK
Time series parameter estimation for ocean wave models
Talk at CFE-CMStatistics 2020, 13th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics and 14th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics
Teaching
Software
Service and leadership
Journal reviewer
- 2025: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology)
- 2025: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
- 2025: Statistics in Medicine
- 2024: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
- 2022: Ocean Engineering
Conference Sessions
- 2025: Using Julia: fast, reproducible, composable Royal Statistical Society 2025 International Conference, organiser and chair (to occur)
Reading Group Organiser
- 2024–25: EPFL PhD statistics talks, organiser
- 2021–22: STOR-i time series reading group, organiser