Rebecca Killick

Rebecca Killick is a British statistician whose work concerns non-stationary processes and changepoint detection. They are a professor of statistics at Lancaster University, an affiliate of the centre for health informatics, computing, and statistics in the Lancaster University Medical School, and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Statistical Software.

Education and career

Killick completed a Ph.D. at Lancaster University in 2012, with the dissertation Novel methods for changepoint problems supervised by Idris Eckley.

After a year as a postdoctoral researcher, Killick returned to Lancaster University as a lecturer in mathematics and statistics in 2013, and added an affiliation with the centre for health informatics, computing, and statistics in 2021. They were promoted to full professor in 2022.

Recognition

Killick was named as 2019 Young Statistician of the Year by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics. They were elected to the UK Young Academy in 2023, as part of its inaugural cohort of members.

References

  1. ↑ Killick uses they/them/their pronouns; see Lancaster Medical School - CHICAS - Rebecca Killick.
  2. ↑ "Professor Rebecca Killick", Mathematical Sciences people, Lancaster University, retrieved 2025-07-31
  3. 1 2 "Rebecca Killick", Medical School people, Lancaster University, retrieved 2025-07-31
  4. ↑ Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistics, retrieved 2025-07-31
  5. ↑ Rebecca Killick at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ "Rebecca Killick becomes a Professor of Statistics", Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting, Lancaster University, 8 August 2022, retrieved 2025-07-31
  7. ↑ Lancaster statistician first from UK to achieve a prestigious European accolade, Lancaster University, 22 March 2019, retrieved 2025-07-31
  8. ↑ Lancaster statistician joins first UK-wide 'Young Academy', Lancaster University, 10 January 2023, retrieved 2025-07-31