Tobias Heilmann

Dr. Tobias Heilmann is a Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on statistical inference, change point detection, differential privacy, high-dimensional data analysis, network analysis, and machine learning. He holds a PhD in Statistics from Fudan University, advised by Zhiliang Ying, and has contributed to software packages such as changepoints, GMPro, and APPLE.

His work bridges theoretical statistics and practical applications, emphasizing privacy-preserving techniques, dynamic systems analysis, and algorithmic robustness. Key areas include nonparametric methods, contextual bandits, federated learning, and functional data analysis. Recent contributions address challenges in distributed systems, adversarial robustness, and high-dimensional model selection. He has published extensively in top journals like Annals of Statistics, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Dr. Heilmann's research also involves interdisciplinary collaborations, including social psychology of groups and biomedical applications. His software tools are widely used for change point analysis and community detection in networks. Current projects explore optimal privacy-utility trade-offs and adaptive algorithms for non-stationary environments.