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Víctor Elvira

Professor in Statistics and Data Science

University of Edinburgh

email: victor.elvira@ed.ac.uk

2 PhD opportunities for 2026 (interested candidates should contact me):
  • Scalable data assimilation for forecasting and understanding climate tipping points (E5 DTP).
  • Monte Carlo Methods for High-Dimensional Multi-Target Tracking (SPADS CDT).

About me

I am a Professor with a Personal Chair in Statistics and Data Science at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh. My research interests are in computational statistics, statistical signal processing, and probabilistic machine learning. My theoretical and methodological work covers Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian inference for static and dynamical models, and statistical modelling. A large part of my recent research focuses on importance sampling and sequential Monte Carlo.

I am currently heavily focused on probabilistic forecasting of climate tipping points, funded through the ARIA Forecasting Tipping Points programme. Additional interests include statistical ecology, biomedical signal processing, wireless communications, and energy forecasting, among many others.

Keywords

  • Computational statistics
  • Climate
  • Probabilistic machine learning
  • Statistical signal processing
  • Artificial intelligence

Awards and recognitions

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Other responsibilities

Organization

  • Local Chair of the 23rd IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP 2025), Edinburgh, UK, June 2025.
  • General Chair of the 6th Sequential Monte Carlo Workshop (SMC 2024), Edinburgh, UK, May 2024.
  • Lead organizer of the Summer School in Bayesian Filtering, Edinburgh, UK, May 2024.
  • General Co-Chair of the 5th Sequential Monte Carlo Workshop (SMC 2022), Madrid, Spain, May 2022.
  • Local Chair of the 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2019), Coruña, Spain, September 2025.
  • Co-chair of the 4th EURASIP-IEEE Spanish Workshop on Signal Processing, Information Theory, and Communications, Santander, Spain, July 2016.

Editorial duties

Committees