Dr Seva Shneer
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
Teaching and administrative duties
I have been involved in teaching various probability, statistics and actuarial sciences courses, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
I am currently serving as Director of MSc in Computational Data Science, which is a joint programme between School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences and School of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
Research
My research interests are in:
- Stability and performance analysis of stochastic networks, especially those appearing in queueing theory, communication networks, data centres, healthcare and energy applications
- Rare events and large deviations
- Random graphs: their structure and connectivity properties
- Random processes on random graphs, such as epidemic or data spread
Publications
You can find the list of my publications here
Major research funding
- EPSRC First grant, 2014-2016
- PECRE grant to spend EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) as visiting professor (2015)
- MIGSAA grant to hold special course on random graphs, 2017
- Co-applicant on MIGSAA grant to hold Summer School on random structures and processes, 2018
- Co-applicant on ICMS grant to hold Stochastic Networks meeting, 2018
- Co-applicant on LMS and Maxwell Institute grants to hold Modern Applied Probability workshop in honour of Sergey Foss' 65th birthday
- Scholarship for PhD student from ETP, HW Energy Academy and National Grid. 2012
- 3 James Watt Scholarships for PhD students (2013, 2015, 2019, 2021)
Students
- Timofei Prasolov (2019)
- David Cheek (2019)
- Abla Azalekor (2021)
- Evgeny Vylegzhanin (2022)
- Albert Sola Vilalta (2022)
- Alastair Haig (2023)
Other
Patent US 10,321,488 B2 "CSMA/CA in time and frequency domains" (with J. Herzen, P. Thiran and A. Banchs, 11 June 2019).
Contact
Postal address:
Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh
EH14 4AS
United Kingdom
Tel.: (+44) 131 451 3902
Email:
V.Shneer {at} hw.ac.uk