Jonathan Koh Boon Han
EPFL SB MATH STAT
MA B1 433 (Bâtiment MA)
Station 8
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://stat.epfl.ch/
Biography
I am currently a PhD candidate at EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Anthony C. Davison. My broad research focus is on Extreme Value Theory (EVT), a branch of probability and statistics that deals with the analysis of extreme and rare events. My narrower research interest lies in the intersection of EVT, spatial statistics, machine learning and Bayesian statistics, applied to environmental research problems.
Teaching Assistantships
- "Wildfire Modelling", four Master/Bachelor semester projects for MA (Spring 2021)
- "Statistical Machine Learning", Master course for MA (Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017)
- "Bayesian Computation", Master course for MA (Spring 2020, Spring 2019)
- "Probability and Statistics", Bachelor course for IN and SC (Spring 2018)
Conferences
- Invited talk, 12th Extreme Value Analysis (Virtual), July 2021
- Contributed talk, 12th Extreme Value Analysis (Virtual), June 2021
- Contributed talk, 13th Workshop on Spatial Statistics and Image Analysis in Biology (Virtual), May 2021
- Invited talk, University of Bern IMSV seminar (Virtual), December 2020
- Invited talk, 13th CMStat 2020 (Virtual), December 2020
- Invited talk, 12th CMStat 2019, London, United Kingdom, December 2019
- Contributed talk, 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2019
- Invited talk, 11th Extreme Value Analysis, Zagreb, Croatia, July 2019
- Contributed talk, 14th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Toulouse, France, June 2019
Competitions
I've recently started dabbling with data challenges, under the alias "Kohrrelation"
- 2nd place (£250), 12th Extreme Value Analysis Data Challenge, July 2021: Wildfire prediction
- 1st place (€1,250), 8th European Congress of Mathematics Data Challenge, June 2021: Claim frequency estimation
Education
PhD
Statistics
EPFL
2017-Present
MSc
Quantitative Finance
ETH Zurich
2017
BSc
Mathematics and Economics
London School of Economics
2014
Research
Publications
- Koh, J., Pimont, F., Dupuy, J.-L. and Opitz, T. (2021). Spatiotemporal wildfire modeling through point processes with moderate and extreme marks. arXiv:2105.08004, link to video here
- Koch, E., Koh, J., Davison, A. C., Lepore, C. and Tippett, M. K. (2021). Trends in the extremes of environments associated with severe US thunderstorms. Journal of Climate 34(4):1259–1272
- Davison, A. C., Koch, E. and Koh, J. (2019). Comment: Models Are Approximations! Statistical Science 34(4):584–590