People
Current
Sang-wook Lee - PhD student (USC, Data Sciences and Operations)
Oh-Ran Kwon - Postdoctoral scholar (USC, Data Sciences and Operations, 2023-present)
Farhad De Sousa - PhD student (USC, Applied Math)
Alumni
Arkajyoti (Arka) Saha - Postdoctoral scholar (UW, joint advised with Daniela Witten, 2019-2022) developing new statistical methods for oceanography as part of a Simons Foundation collaboration and working on problems in selective inference.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Statistics at UC Irvine
Greg Faletto - PhD 2023 (USC, Data Sciences and Operations) studying stability in variable selection, classification with class imbalance, causal inference, and other problems.
Current position: VideoAmp
Simeng Shao - PhD 2022 (USC, Data Sciences and Operations) studying multiple testing for tree-based aggregation and other problems. Co-advised with Adel Javanmard.
Current position: Amazon
Sangwon (Justin) Hyun - Postdoctoral scholar (USC, Data Sciences and Operations, 2019-2022) developing new statistical methods for oceanography as part of a Simons Foundation collaboration with a special focus on flow-cytometry data and the use of Wasserstein distance in oceanography. His other research interests include epidemiological forecasting, changepoint detection, and post-selection inference.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Statistics at UC Santa Cruz
Tim Coleman - Postdoctoral scholar (USC, Data Sciences and Operations, 2021-2022) developing new statistical methods for oceanography as part of a Simons Foundation collaboration. His other research interests include inference on random forest models and applications to ornithology, hurricane impact forecasting, and space weather forecasting.
Current position: Google
Xiaohan Yan - PhD 2018 (Cornell, Statistics) studying hierarchical sparse modeling and the challenge of rare feature selection, with applications to the microbiome.
Current position: Data Scientist at Microsoft
Guo Yu - PhD 2018 (Cornell, Statistics) studying inverse covariance estimation, large-scale interaction modeling, multiple testing, and other problems in high-dimensional statistics.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Statistics at UC Santa Barbara
Shuxiao Chen - Bachelor’s 2018 (Cornell, Statistics) studying valid inference corrected for outlier removal.
Next position: PhD student at the Wharton Statistics Department