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School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
James Clerk Maxwell Building
The King's Buildings
Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
Miguel de Carvalho
Professor & Chair of Statistical Data Science
Vice President - International Statistical Institute
Fellow - Generative AI Laboratory
Honorary Professor (Universidade de Aveiro)
E-mail: Miguel.deCarvalho@ed.ac.uk
Fields of Expertise
Extreme Value Theory, Interfaces between Statistics and AI, Bayesian Analysis
Spotlight
- I am a Vice President of the International Statistical Institute from 1 November 2026.
- I have chaired the Edinburgh Summer School on Generative AI for Extremes, which took place in Edinburgh over September 2026.
- The Handbook of Statistics of Extremes—which I co-edited and contributed to—is now with the production team of Chapman & Hall/CRC. Here is its webpage: https://extremestats.github.io/Handbook/
- Excited to lead Springer's new book series, Courses in Advanced Statistics and Data Science, as Editor-in-Chief. Have a book idea? We would love to hear from you. Download the book proposal form here.
- I have edited the special issue "Bridging Heavy Tails & AI" for Extremes (Q1 Springer); now available here.
- I am a proud member of GLEN (Glasgow–Edinburgh Extremes Network).
