Richard John Samworth FRS[1] (born May 1978) is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge,[2] and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.

His main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics.

Particular topics include shape-constrained density estimation and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.