Professor Shaomin Wu

Shaomin Wu earned both an MSc and a doctoral degree in applied statistics. He subsequently worked for a leading global manufacturer in Shanghai for five and a half years before relocating to the UK in 2001. His first two roles in the UK were as postdoctoral research fellows, focusing on machine learning and reliability mathematics, respectively. He then served as a lecturer in risk and decision analysis at Cranfield University. In 2012, he was appointed senior lecturer in business/applied statistics at Kent Business School, became a reader in 2013, and was promoted to professor in 2018.

Shaomin’s research focuses are:

• Recurrent event data analysis,
• Machine learning, and
• Reliability mathematics.

His research was financially funded by the EPSRC, ESRC, and other funding bodies.

Examples of his projects include:

• Managing Risk And Uncertainty In Warranty Servicing Policy
• Smart Data Analytics for Business and Local Government
• Development of demand forecasting models for sustainable supply chain management

Shaomin taught modules including:

• Risk analysis,
• Reliability engineering,
• Business statistics,
• Introductory statistics,
• Database management,
• Machine learning and forecasting

Supervision topics:

Time series forecasting, recurrent event data analysis, explainable machine learning, reliability mathematics

Current Supervision:

He is supervising several PhD students in the research areas of time series forecasting, explainable machine learning, and recurrent event data analysis. The research topics of the supervisees include:

• Development of novel methods for bankruptcy prediction
• Development of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods for recurrent event data analysis
• Development of demand forecasting models for sustainable supply chain management
• Development of artificial intelligence algorithms for warranty claims forecasting

• A co-chair of four international conference;
• A member of scientific programmes of more than 30 international conferences
• An external examiner for more than 20 doctoral degrees
• A member of the editorial boards of more than 10 journals

He was also honoured to be within the top 2% Ranking of Scientists in the World by Stanford University for several years.