Steven Kerr

Chancellor's Fellow

  • Usher Institute
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Contact details

Address

Street

Centre for Medical Informatics
Usher Institute, Usher Building
The University of Edinburgh
5-7 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter ‒ Gate 3

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH16 4UX

Biography

Background

I started out life as a physicist. Initially I worked on theoretical particle physics (lattice QCD), but then switched to quantum gravity (topological quantum field theory and state sum models).

After that, I turned my hand to economics. I worked on a grab-bag of different topics, including game theory, affirmative action, and micro/macroeconomic modelling.

From there I spent some time working in the private sector as a data scientist. I'm currently a Chancellor's fellow at the University of Edinburgh, doing research in health data science, statistics, machine learning and secure multiparty computation.

Qualifications

PhD Mathematical Physics, University of Nottingham, 2014.

PhD Economics, University of Edinburgh, 2019.

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Research summary

  • Vaccine effectiveness and safety
  • Epidemiology
  • Statistical theory and methodology
  • Health economics
  • Using secure multiparty computation to enable joint analysis of multiple private health datasets with zero information sharing.
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