I am a PhD student on the StatML CDT programme, based in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. My current research is focused on computational methods for optimal transport and optimal control, and is supervised by George Deligiannidis and Patrick Rebeschini.
Previously, I obtained my Masters in Mathematics at Oxford, where I focused on Functional Analysis and Probability Theory.
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- Optimal Transport and Control
- Flow-based Generative Modelling
- Hiking
- Classical Guitar
- Double Bass
PhD in Statistics (StatML Programme), 2023-
University of Oxford
Master in Mathematics, 2018-2022
University of Oxford
Timeline
Control Consistency Losses for Diffusion Bridges
Frontiers in Probabilistic Inference Workshop, NeurIPS 2025 (Oral)
Samuel Howard*, Nikolas Nüsken, Jakiw PidstrigachSchrödinger Bridge Matching for Tree-Structured Costs and Entropic Wasserstein Barycentres
NeurIPS 2025
Samuel Howard*, Peter Potaptchik, George Deligiannidis
Paper | Code | BlogDiffusion Models and the Manifold Hypothesis: Log-Domain Smoothing is Geometry Adaptive
NeurIPS 2025
Tyler Farghly*, Peter Potaptchik*, Samuel Howard*, George Deligiannidis, Jakiw Pidstrigach
PaperDifferentiable Cost-Parameterized Monge Map Estimators
Differentiable Almost Everything Workshop, ICML 2024
Samuel Howard*, George Deligiannidis, Patrick Rebeschini, James Thornton
Paper | Code
- Supervised by Patrick Rebeschini
- Supervised by Samuel Cohen and Tanut Treetanthiploet
Teaching
I have tutored Mathematics undergraduates at New College, Oxford in the following courses:
- Probability, 1st Year
- Statistics and Data Analysis, 1st Year
- Integration, 2nd Year
- Metric Spaces and Complex Analysis, 2nd Year
I have been a teaching assistant at the Department of Statistics for the following courses:
- Applied Probability, 3rd Year
- Advanced Simulation Methods, 4th Year
Contact
- Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LB