Oliver’s PhD focuses on inference & inverse problems for stochastic interacting particle systems. He is supervised by Professor Grigorios Pavliotis and Dr Nikolas Kantas. Previous research has focused on small noise limits of SDEs & PINNs.
He is an Imperial Sports Scholar for Fencing currently ranked 32 for Men’s foil in the UK.
Interests
- Stochastic analysis
- Applied PDE theory
- Numerical analysis
- Statistical inference
Publications
Y. Zhu, Z. Li, D. Shi, L. Thompson, O. Nash, J. M. Lara Rangel, S. Li, B. Chen, R. Zhu, Q. Meng, H. Ni. SPDEBench: An Extensive Benchmark for Learning Stochastic PDEs (2026), 10.48550/arXiv.2505.18511.
Education
PSL - Dauphine & ENS | Paris, France
M2 in Theoretical and applied mathematics | Sept 2023 – Sept 2024
Durham University | Durham, UK
MMath in mathematics | Sep 2019 – Jul 2023