Nikita Mozgunov
I am a research associate at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge. I write and maintain R packages for clinical trial methods. At the moment that means MAMS, for designing multi-arm multi-stage trials, and survivalMPL, which fits Cox models to interval-censored data by penalised likelihood. I also build the documentation sites for these packages, help teach two courses on Cambridge MPhil programmes and give short talks on R to colleagues at the unit.
Before Cambridge I spent more than ten years at Lomonosov Moscow State University. I did a PhD in economic geography there and stayed on as a research fellow, working on transport emissions, population ageing and rural settlement in Russia. I taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at the university, and worked with advanced school students through the All-Russian Geography Olympiad, where I also wrote the tasks. Alongside the academic work I had jobs in industry as a system administrator and network engineer, and that is where I picked up the practical IT skills I now use to build statistical software.
This site collects my talks, posters, software and notes.