Dasha Semochkina

Dr. Dasha Semochkina is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton's Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI) and Mathematical Sciences department. Her work focuses on computational methods in Bayesian statistics, including emulator development for optimization problems and uncertainty quantification. She holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Limerick and a bachelor's in Pure Mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Education: BSc in Pure Mathematics (Lomonosov Moscow State University), PhD in Statistics (University of Limerick).

Research Interests:

• Emulation techniques for computationally intensive models
• Bayesian optimization under uncertainty
• Multi-objective optimization strategies
• Design of experiments for statistical inference

Teaching: Postgraduate module MATH6174 (Likelihood and Bayesian Inference).

Labs/Teams: Member of the Computational Engineering and Design Group, Statistics Research Group, and S3RI.