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Professor of
Statistics
and
Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University
Principal Investigator in the
Delphi group
Amazon Scholar in AWS AI Labs
Short bio
I am a Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Statistics
and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University.
I am also a Principal Investigator in the Delphi group at CMU,
and an Amazon Scholar in
Alex Smola's
group in AWS AI Labs. I have been a CMU faculty since 2011.
From 2007-2011, I did my Ph.D. in Statistics at Stanford University, with
Jonathan Taylor as my
thesis advisor. From 2003-2007, I did my B.S. in Mathematics at Stanford.
Research interests
My research interests lie broadly in statistics,
machine learning, and optimization; and
I like to think about problems from different angles:
applied, computational, theoretical.
More specifically, my interests include
high-dimensional statistics,
nonparametric estimation,
distribution-free inference,
convex optimization, and
numerical methods.
My main applied focus at this time is on
tracking and forecasting epidemics.
Professional service
I have also been an Associate Editor for the
Annals of Statistics (2016-20),
Biometrika (2013-16),
Journal of the American Statistical Society (2019-20),
and for a number of ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, 2014-20).
A full CV can be found here.