Frank Coolen
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
+44/0 191 334 3048
first-name [dot] surname [at] durham [dot] ac [dot] uk
List of publications
Nonparametric Predictive Inference: NPI webpage
Survival Signatures for System Reliability: Survival Signatures webpage
My colleagues David Wooff, Michael Goldstein and I wrote a chapter for the book `Analytic Methods in
Systems and Software Testing' (Wiley, 2018, edited by Kenett, Ruggeri and Faltin). The chapter (pp. 213-243)
is entitled `Bayesian Graphical Models for High Complexity Testing: Aspects of Implementation' and is
available here.
Mathematical Genealogy: Ancestors and
Descendants
EU training network: UTOPIAE
Latest News
- Due to the (ongoing) COVID crisis, my webpage has not been updated since March 2020. I am
working on it!
- As always, feel free to contact me with any questions about research, PhD studies, possible
visits (hoping these are again fully possible in the future), et cetera.
Current and Future Visitors
- Dr. Jinlei Qin (North China Electric Power University)
is visiting from 1 Sept 2019 till 30 August 2020 for collaboration on topics in multi-state systems reliability.
- Prof. Gert de Cooman (Gent University, Belgium) will visit from 16 May till 1 June 2020
for collaboration on topics in imprecise probability.
- Prof. Yakov Ben Haim (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) will visit from 1 till 30 June 2020
for collaboration on topics in decision theory with deep uncertainty.
- Prof. Maria Kateri (Aachen University, Germany) will visit
from 7 till 16 November 2020 for collaboration on topics in accelerated life testing and contingency tables.
Recent Visitors
- Prof. Gert de Cooman (Gent University, Belgium) visited
from 20 May till 9 June 2019 for collaboration on topics in imprecise probability.
- Prof. Maria Kateri (Aachen University, Germany) visited
from 12 till 19 May 2019 for collaboration on topics in accelerated life testing.
- Dr. Filipe Marques (Lisbon, Portugal) visited from 5 till 10 May 2019
for collaboration on reproducibility of likelihood ratio tests.
- Prof. Thomas Augustin
(LMU Munich, Germany) visited from 1 till 4 May 2019 for collaboration on statistical inference with set-valued data.
- Prof. Sat Gupta (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, US)
visited from 25 March till 7 April 2019 for collaboration on test reproducibility related to randomised response techniques.
- Prof. Geert-Jan van Houtum (Eindhoven University of
Technology, The Netherlands) visited from 1 till 3 April 2019 as guest speaker at the 1st UK Reliability Meeting, and
for collaboration on topics in reliability.
- Prof. Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada) visited from 25
November till 2 December 2018 for collaboration on a wide range of topics with Dr Tahani Coolen-Maturi and me.
- Prof. Xianzhen Huang (Northeastern University, China), visited for
a year from September 2017 for collaboration on topics in reliability.
- Prof. Radim Bris (Ostrava, Czech Republic) visited from 18
to 30 May 2018 for collaboration on computational methods for high reliability.
- Dr. Filipe Marques (Lisbon, Portugal) visited in May 2018
for collaboration on reproducibility of likelihood ratio tests.
- Dr. Filipe Marques (Lisbon, Portugal) visited in May 2017
for collaboration on reproducibility of tests.
- Prof. Serkan Eryilmaz (Atilim University, Turkey) visited
March-May 2017 for collaboration on topics in reliability theory.
- Prof. Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada) visited in February 2017 for
collaboration on topics related to the survival signature.
Students
I am supervising the following PhD students at Durham.
- Loic Cosyns: `Quasi-Bayesian inference with applications in finance' (part/time)
- Ali Mahnashi: `Nonparametric predictive inference for multiple future observations based on right-censored data' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi)
- Andrea Simkus: `Reproducibility of statistical tests in pharmaceutical products development' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi;
EPSRC-CASE project with AstraZeneca)
- Fatimah Alghamdi: `Reproducibility of statistical tests based on randomised response data' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi)
- Ahmad Albaiti: `Imprecise statistical methods for the proportional hazards model' (jointly supervised by Peter Craig)
- Daniel Krpelik: `Prediction of system reliability during design phases' (UTOPIAE ESR8 project; jointly supervised by Louis Aslett)
- Asamh Alluhayb: `NPI-Bootstrap with right-censored data' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi)
- Kholood Alyazidi: `Nonparametric predictive inference for inventory decisions' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi)
- Abdulmajeed Alharbi: `Nonparametric predictive inference for classification' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi)
- Masad Alrasheedi: `Nonparametric predictive inference for credit scoring and loan data' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi)
- Sultan Albalwy: `Imprecise statistical inference for accelerated life test data' (jointly supervised by Jonathan Cumming)
- Mosa Alsabhi: `Robust statistical methods for virtual age models in reliability' (jointly supervised by Jonathan Cumming)
- Norah Alalyani: `Reproducibility of one-way layout tests' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi)
- Abdulrahman Aldawsari: `New developments in parametric bootstrap' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi)
- Reid Alotaibi: `Imprecise statistical methods for contingency tables' (jointly supervised by Tahani Coolen-Maturi)
- Anas Alharshan: `Bayesian inference in reliability' (jointly supervised by Louis Aslett) - starting December 2019
Past Students
These students have successfully completed their PhD studies at Durham under my supervision.
External Students
I collaborate(d) with these students in part of their PhD (or MSc) research.
- Jacko Verheijen (1996) Combining two classical approaches for statistical selection (MSc at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands); Supervisor: Paul van der Laan; visiting student at Durham for 6 months)
- Fabio Spinato (2008) The reliability of wind turbines (PhD at Durham, Engineering Department, Supervisor: Peter Tavner)
- Gero Walter (2013) Generalized Bayesian inference under prior-data conflict (PhD at Munich University (Germany); Supervisor: Thomas Augustin)
- Geng Feng (2017) Efficient reliability and sensitivity analysis of complex systems and networks with imprecise probability (PhD at Liverpool University; supervised by Michael Beer and Edoardo Patelli)
- Yi-Chao Yin: working on accelerated life testing (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu (China); supervised by Hong-Zhong Huang; visiting student at Durham Oct 15 - Oct 16)
- Tien Thanh Thach: workinig on mixtures of failure rate models (PhD at Technical University of Ostrava (Czechia); supervised by Radim Bris)
- Yao Li: working on prediction of remaining life of systems (PhD at Chongqing University, China; visiting student at Durham Sept 17 - March 19)
- Zarif Zaman: working on reliability estimation on complex networks (PhD at Liverpool University; 2018-2022; main supervisor Edoardo Patelli)
TAHANI
I am married to Tahani Coolen-Maturi, who is a colleague in our Department.
PAULINE
My beloved wife Pauline died in 2008 - remember Pauline, she is with me.
Webpage: Pauline Coolen-Schrijner
(picture 2004) (picture 1994)
Tribute to Pauline in Journal of Risk and Reliability
`In searching out the truth be ready for the unexpected, for it is difficult to find and puzzling when you find it'
(Heraclitus)
