David Huk
I am a third-year PhD student in the CDT in Mathematics and Statistics at Warwick. I am jointly supervised by Dr Rito Dutta and Professor Mark Steel. My main research interests are computational statistics, multivariate dependence, and reinforcement learning. Currently, I focus on applying these ideas within reinforcement learning to enhance agents.
News:
- January 2025: "Your copula is a classifier in disguise: classification-based copula density estimationLink opens in a new window" has been accepted at AISTATS 25!
- December 2024: I presented "Quasi-Bayes meets VinesLink opens in a new window" at Neurips 24.
Publications:
- Your copula is a classifier in disguise: classification-based copula density estimation, AISTATS 2025Link opens in a new window
David Huk, Mark Steel, and Ritabrata Dutta
- Quasi-Bayes meets Vines, Neurips 2024Link opens in a new window
David Huk, Yuanhe Zhang, Mark Steel, Ritabrata Dutta
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Recorded 5-minute video: https://youtu.be/6kTmdM7DUUELink opens in a new window
- Contribution to the Discussion of “Martingale Posterior Distributions”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (2023)Link opens in a new window
David Huk, Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Ritabrata Dutta and Mark Steel
Link opens in a new window - Probabilistic Rainfall Downscaling: Joint Generalized Neural Models with Censored Spatial Gaussian Copula, Preprint (2023)Link opens in a new window
David Huk, Rilwan A. Adewoyin, Ritabrata Dutta
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Talks and Presentations
- Your copula is a classifier in disguise: classification-based copula density estimation, 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, AISTATS 2025, Mai Khao, Thailand, poster, (May 2025)
- Quasi-Bayes meets Vines, Colloquium of the Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Munich, invited talk, (January 2025)
- Quasi-Bayes meets Vines, The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Neurips 24, Vancouver, poster, (December 2024)
- Quasi-Bayes meets Vines, Algorithms & Computationally Intensive Inference seminar, University of Warwick, invited talk, (June 2024)
- Probabilistic Rainfall Downscaling: Joint Generalized Neural Models with Censored Spatial Gaussian Copula,
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, online, invited talk (October 2023) - Probabilistic forecasting with censored spatial copulas via scoring rules, CRiSM Workshop on Fusing Simulations with Data Science, University of Warwick, poster (July 2023)
- Probabilistic forecasting with censored spatial copulas via scoring rules, Workshop on Distance-based Methods in Machine Learning, University College London, poster (June 2023)
- Joint Generalized Neural Models and Censored Spatial Copulas for Probabilistic Rainfall Forecasting, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2023, Vienna, poster (April 2023)
Academic Roles
- Chair of Student-Staff Liaison Committee in Statistics, 24/25
- Student-Staff Liaison Committee member in Statistics, 23/24 and 24/25
- Research Committee member in Statistics, 24/25
- Gregynog departmental conference 2024 organising committee
- Co-organiser of research group meetings for Computing for Natural Science in 23/24
- Organising volunteer for the CRiSM Workshop on "Fusing Simulation with Data Science", July 2023
Tutorial Teaching
- ST 404 Applied Statistical Modelling (Term 2, 2023/2024)
- ST 219 Mathematical Statistics Part B (Term 2, 2022/2023)
