Mr Fred Lydeard

PhD Student

Research interests

Fred works on tracking, with an eye on drone surveillance radar as an application. Key tools used are:

  • Gaussian Processes
  • Dirichlet Processes
  • Monte Carlo methods including MCMC, SMC, SMCMC, and RJ-MCMC.

Role and responsibilities

Born and raised in Cambridge, Fred returned, after his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Durham University, to pursue a doctorate in engineering, specifically Bayesian machine learning and statistical methods. In his free time, Fred enjoys playing badminton, solving variant sudoku puzzles, and cuddling up to his dog, Rufus!