group

I am extremely fortunate to (co)-advise an amazing group of students and postdocs.


current group members:

Lucas Kania












alumni:

Tudor Manole (Ph.D in Statistics, 2024)

  • Thesis: Statistical Inference for Optimal Transport
  • Umesh K. Gavaskar Best Dissertation Award in the Department of Statistics, CMU.
  • CMU Graduate Presidential Fellowship.
  • NSERC Graduate Fellowship.
  • 2023 IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award and the IMS Hannan Travel Award.
  • 2024 ASA Pittsburgh Chapter, Student of the Year.
  • Now a Norbert Wiener Postdoc at MIT.

Saurabh Garg (Ph.D in Machine Learning, 2024)

  • Thesis: Robust Machine Learning: Detection, Evaluation, and Adaption Under Distribution Shift
  • Bloomberg PhD Fellowship 2023.
  • J.P. Morgan Chase Fellowship 2022.
  • Amazon Graduate Research Fellowship 2022.
  • Now at Mistral AI.

Beomjo Park (Ph.D in Statistics, 2023)

  • Thesis: Robust Inference: A Price of Misspecification and How to be Resilient
  • Best Student Paper Award at SLDS.
  • Now at Google.

Alden Green (Ph.D in Statistics, 2021, Postdoc 2021-2022)

  • Thesis: Statistical Guarantees for Spectral Methods on Neighborhood Graphs
  • Umesh K. Gavaskar Best Dissertation Award in the Department of Statistics, CMU.
  • Now a Stein Fellow at Stanford.

Ilmun Kim (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2020)

  • Thesis: Statistical Theory and Methods for Comparing Distributions
  • Umesh K. Gavaskar Best Dissertation Award in the Department of Statistics, CMU.
  • IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award.
  • Now an assistant professor at Yonsei University.

Adarsh Prasad (Ph.D. in Machine Learning, 2021)

  • Thesis: Towards Robust and Resilient Machine Learning.
  • Winner of the J.P. Morgan AI Research Fellowship.
  • Now a quantitative analyst at TGS Management.

Charvi Rastogi (M.S. in Machine Learning, 2021)

  • Winner of the J.P. Morgan AI Research Fellowship.
  • Next Steps: Ph.D student in Machine Learning at CMU.

Y.J Choe (M.S. in Machine Learning, 2017)

  • Next Steps: Joint Ph.D student in Statistics and Machine Learning at CMU.