Theresa R Smith

4 West 5.15
Dept of Mathematical Sciences
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
email: t.r.smith 'at' bath.ac.uk

I am a Professor of Statistics and Data Science in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and Co-Director of the SAMBa CDT. I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2009 with a BA in History and a BS in Statistics. I did my PhD in Statistics at the University of Washington from 2009 to 2014.

Research Interests

Applications of statistics to health and the social sciences.
Methods for data with spatial or longitudinal dependence.
Development and communication of clinical decision support tools.

Recent Publications

Palacios, E., Howlett, N., Lo, Y. E., Roy, S., Wood, R., and Smith, T. (2026) Bed occupancy forecast for decision-making during periods of high hospital pressure. International Journal of Medical Informatics.
Wells, M., Smith, T., Domsic, R. T., Anilkumar, A., Frech, T. M., Herrick, A. L., ... & Pauling, J. D. (2026) The clinical utility of telangiectasia quantification as markers of vascular disease progression in systemic sclerosis. Rheumatology.
Gollins, C., Russell, A., Smith, T., Vivekanantham, A., Booke, M., Coates, L.C., Gullick, N., McHugh, N., Fahy, C., Tillett, W., and the SEQUENCE Study Group (2026) A Retrospective Observational Study of Effectiveness of Sequential Biologic and Targeted Synthetic DMARDs in Psoriatic Arthritis in the UK. Rheumatology.
Gascoigne, C., Riebler, A., and Smith, T. (2025) Smooth predictions for age- period-cohort models: a comparison between splines and random proces. BMC Medical Research Methodology.
Rudge, A., McHugh, N., Tillett, W., Smith, T. (2025) An interpretable machine learning approach for detecting psoriatic arthritis in a UK primary care psoriasis cohort using electronic health records from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Current Funded Projects

Total bUrden of Long-Term PSoriasis - TULiPS. An NIHR Programme Development Grant (2024 - 2026).
Inflatable Prone Repositioning Device. Funded by NIHR's Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme (2024 - 2026).
AI for Collective Intelligence. A UKRI AI Research Hub Led by the University of Bristol (Theme Lead for Healthcare Ecosystems, 2024 - 2029).
Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection. Funded by Research England's E3 program. (2024 - 2029).

News

I was promoted to Professor of Statistics and Data Science in July 2026!
From 1st June 2026, I am now Co-Director of the SAMBa CDT.
Congratulations to Alex Rudge who passed his viva with minor corrections in June 2025 and won the Fraenkel Prize for the best PhD thesis in Mathematical Sciences 2024-2025!
I am joining the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics) in January 2025.
I am thrilled to be a Theme Lead for Healthcare Ecosystems in the new £12M AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) research hub led by Bristol with partners in Cardiff, Exeter, UCL, Glasgow and Ulster.

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Last Modified: 10 August 2026