Collin A. Politsch

About Me

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and previously completed an M.S. in machine learning at CMU. The area of research I am most passionate about is the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and cosmology. Much of my Ph.D. work has focused on optimally inverting the silhouettes of the intergalactic medium in the spectra of high redshift quasars to reconstruct a full three-dimensional map of the Universe's large-scale structure and obtain probabilities that each mapped structure really exists. On a more theoretical level, my interests span various aspects of supervised learning, spatio-temporal models, and uncertainty quantification. I am fortunate enough to have three fantastic advisors in Larry Wasserman, Jessi Cisewski-Kehe, and Rupert Croft. Before CMU, I received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Kansas.

In my free time I enjoy athletics, reading, traveling, any food wrapped in a tortilla, and my dogs -- Seth and Max. Occasionally, to keep life interesting, a few of my classmates and I team up to compete in hackathons.

I changed my last name from Eubanks to Politsch in March of 2019 to honor my late mother.