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Ethan Allavarpu
Masters Student in Statistics, admitted Autumn 2022
BioI am pursuing an M.S. in Statistics Data Science at Stanford University (with coursework in Statistics, Computer Science, and Computational and Mathematical Engineering). Before Stanford, I graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I am a Data Science Intern with Bridg working on data querying, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning with Python, SQL, and Snowflake on terabytes of data (over 100 billion observations) to improve insights on product descriptions and feature standardization across various sources.
During my senior year at UCLA, I was a Data Analyst Intern with SCAN Health Plan performing NLP and unsupervised learning (agglomerative clustering) in Python to analyze call center data while also creating Tableau dashboards. I also was a Data Science Consultant with UCLA’s Data Science Center, working as a consultant to meet ad-hoc and long-term requests from clients in varied fields. Additionally, I was the president of Bruin Sports Analytics, combining sports and analytics by guiding our data journalism, research, and consulting teams to produce deliverables for sports fans and UCLA’s intercollegiate teams.
I am always willing to discuss potential work opportunities or my path with prospective undergraduate or graduate students or data science enthusiasts. Feel free to contact me via email, LinkedIn, or my personal website. -
Milad Bakhshizadeh
Postdoctoral Scholar, Statistics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHigh dimensional Statistics, Concentration inequalities, Random Matrix Theory, Structured signal processing, Inverse Problems, Phase Retrieval.
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Emmanuel Candes
Barnum-Simons Chair of Math and Statistics, and Professor of Statistics and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
BioEmmanuel Candès is the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics, a professor of electrical engineering (by courtesy) and a member of the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Earlier, Candès was the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests are in computational harmonic analysis, statistics, information theory, signal processing and mathematical optimization with applications to the imaging sciences, scientific computing and inverse problems. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1998.
Candès has received several awards including the Alan T. Waterman Award from NSF, which is the highest honor bestowed by the National Science Foundation, and which recognizes the achievements of early-career scientists. He has given over 60 plenary lectures at major international conferences, not only in mathematics and statistics but in many other areas as well including biomedical imaging and solid-state physics. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014. -
Nicole Cobb
Grants Assistant & Administration Associate, Statistics
BioNicole Cobb is the Grants Assistant & Administration Associate with the Statistics Department in the School of Humanities & Sciences.
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Persi Diaconis
Mary V. Sunseri Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Mathematics
On Leave from 09/01/2022 To 08/31/2023Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch Interests:
PROBABILITY THEORY
BAYESIAN STATISTICS
STATISTICAL COMPUTING
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David Donoho
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
On Leave from 09/01/2022 To 12/31/2022BioDavid Donoho is a mathematician who has made fundamental contributions to theoretical and computational statistics, as well as to signal processing and harmonic analysis. His algorithms have contributed significantly to our understanding of the maximum entropy principle, of the structure of robust procedures, and of sparse data description.
Research Statement:
My theoretical research interests have focused on the mathematics of statistical inference and on theoretical questions arising in applying harmonic analysis to various applied problems. My applied research interests have ranged from data visualization to various problems in scientific signal processing, image processing, and inverse problems. -
John Duchi
Associate Professor of Statistics, of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy work spans statistical learning, optimization, information theory, and computation, with a few driving goals: 1. To discover statistical learning procedures that optimally trade between real-world resources while maintaining statistical efficiency. 2. To build efficient large-scale optimization methods that move beyond bespoke solutions to methods that robustly work. 3. To develop tools to assess and guarantee the validity of---and confidence we should have in---machine-learned systems.
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Bradley Efron
Max H. Stein Professor and Professor of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch Interests:
BOOTSTRAP
BIOSTATISTICS
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Emily Fox
Professor of Statistics and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
BioEmily Fox is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and, by courtesy, Computer Science at Stanford University. Prior to Stanford, she was the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. From 2018-2021, Emily led the Health AI team at Apple, where she was a Distinguished Engineer. Before joining UW, Emily was an Assistant Professor at the Wharton School Department of Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her doctorate from Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT where her thesis was recognized with EECS' Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize and the Leonard J. Savage Award for Best Thesis in Applied Methodology.
Emily has been awarded a CZ Biohub Investigator Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a Sloan Research Fellowship, ONR Young Investigator Award, and NSF CAREER Award. Her research interests are in large-scale Bayesian dynamic modeling, interpretability and computations, with applications in health and computational neuroscience. -
Zijun Gao
Ph.D. Student in Statistics, admitted Autumn 2017
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCausal inference, density estimation, optimization
