Lukas Steinberger

Lukas Steinberger serves as Associate Professor for Statistical Machine Learning in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Vienna's Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics. He is also affiliated with the university's Data Science research network. Prior to his current position, he was a post-doctoral researcher with Angelika Rohde at the University of Freiburg and held a temporary Full Professorship in the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich.

Steinberger's research program centers on statistical inference under differential privacy, high-dimensional data analysis, and uncertainty quantification in statistical learning. His work bridges theoretical statistics with practical machine learning applications, particularly focusing on how to perform valid statistical inference while preserving data privacy. His research has significant implications for fields requiring sensitive data analysis including healthcare, finance, and social sciences where privacy constraints are paramount.

His publication record demonstrates consistent contributions to top-tier statistics journals including multiple papers in the Annals of Statistics. His recent work shows a clear trajectory toward developing theoretically sound methods for privacy-preserving data analysis that maintain statistical efficiency. The research themes across his publications reveal strong connections between differential privacy mechanisms, high-dimensional statistical theory, and practical machine learning applications.

Scientific Awards:

• Award for dissertations in the field of theoretical statistics (2016)

Steinberger maintains an active research agenda with numerous conference invitations and seminar presentations internationally, reflecting his standing in the statistical community. His current research project "Classification - Preprocessed and high-dimensional data" (2021-2025) indicates ongoing funding and research direction. He serves as Vice-Director of Studies for the Business, Economics and Statistics program and teaches courses including Statistics 2, Computational Statistics, and Classification, Clustering and Discrimination at the master's level.

As part of the Data Science research network at University of Vienna, Steinberger collaborates with interdisciplinary teams working at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and domain-specific applications. His research group focuses on developing theoretically grounded approaches to statistical machine learning problems under privacy constraints.