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Andre Wibisonoمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Machine Learning
• Optimization
• Sampling
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Andre Wibisono serves as Assistant Professor in Yale University's Department of Computer Science with a secondary appointment in Statistics & Data Science, joining the faculty in 2021 after postdoctoral research at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background includes: Ph.D. in Computer Science, UC Berkeley M.A. in Statistics, UC Berkeley M.Eng. in Computer Science, MIT S.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science, MIT Wibisono's research focuses on algorithm design for machine learning through optimization, sampling, and game theory , leveraging dynamical systems and information theory to develop accelerated discrete-time algorithms from continuous dynamics. His work provides theoretical foundations for efficient machine learning systems with applications in generative modeling and constrained optimization. Recent publications (2023-2025) demonstrate consistent innovation in Hamiltonian-based optimization , constrained-space sampling , and min-max game convergence , characterized by rigorous mathematical analysis connecting continuous dynamics to discrete algorithms. Key trends include randomized integration for acceleration, phi-divergence convergence guarantees, and symplectic geometry applications to mirror descent. Scientific recognition includes: NSF CAREER Award for developing algorithmic frameworks bridging continuous and discrete dynamics He actively mentors current students (Siddharth Mitra, Kaylee Yang, Jane Lee, Qiang Fu, Peter Wang) and has guided two postdocs to faculty positions. Research is funded through the NSF CAREER award and collaborative CIF grants focused on Hamiltonian dynamics for sampling and optimization. His Yale research group develops theoretical foundations for next-generation machine learning algorithms, emphasizing mathematical rigor in optimization and sampling with applications to generative modeling and constrained inference problems.

François-Xavier Briolمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Machine Learning
• Statistical Inference
• Computational Statistics
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François-Xavier Briol is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistical Science at University College London (UCL). He co-leads the Fundamentals of Statistical Machine Learning research group and holds roles including theme lead for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML), co-director of the UCL CDT in Data-Intensive Science, and ELLIS scholar. His research focuses on merging scientific models with data through robust statistical and machine learning methods, emphasizing computational efficiency and model misspecification robustness. Education: BSc/MMORSE from the University of Warwick, PhD from the joint Warwick-Oxford CDT in Statistics. Postdoctoral roles at Imperial College London (Mathematics) and University of Cambridge (Engineering), followed by a Group Leader position at The Alan Turing Institute (2020–2023). Research interests include probabilistic numerical methods, Bayesian inference for intractable models, Stein’s method, and kernel-based approaches. His work has been recognized via awards like the AISTATS Best Paper Award and Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award, with funding from EPSRC and Amazon. Advising: Supervised PhD students in areas like Bayesian quadrature, robust inference, and Gaussian processes. Current students focus on topics such as Bayesian filtering and sensitivity analysis. Grants include EPSRC funding and an Amazon Research Award. Labs/Teams: Active in UCL’s ELLIS unit, CSML, and Turing Institute collaborations. Editorships include SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification and Bayesian Analysis.

• Climate Change Adaptation
• Infrastructure Resilience
• Risk Analysis
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Jim Hall is a Professor of Climate and Environmental Risk at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, and serves as Director of Research there. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Linacre College and holds leadership roles including Chair of the Science Advisory Committee at IIASA, and Expert Advisor to the UK's National Infrastructure Commission. His work focuses on systemic risk analysis, infrastructure resilience, and policy implications of climate change adaptation. Prof Hall has pioneered methodologies like the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD) and chairs the Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI). His research spans flood risk management, energy systems decarbonization, and transboundary water resource conflicts in regions such as the Eastern Nile Basin and the Caribbean. Key research areas include robust decision making under uncertainty, info-gap theory applications, and integrated assessments of human-environmental systems. He has contributed to major international assessments, including the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, and developed frameworks for multi-hazard stress testing of infrastructure networks. Scientific Awards: George Stephenson Medal (2001), Prince Sultan Prize for Water (2018), Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship (2010) His advising and grants work includes mentoring a DPhil student Erin Canning and leading projects like MARIUS and ENHANCE. He has also developed innovative modeling tools for coastal erosion prediction and probabilistic assessments of global shipping fuel transitions. Prof Hall’s research groups actively engage in interdisciplinary projects, including the Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship and the UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium. His work emphasizes bridging scientific analysis with actionable policy solutions for climate adaptation.

Jiti Gaoمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Econometrics
• Non- and Semi-Parametric Econometrics
• Time-Series Analysis
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Professor Jiti Gao is a Donald Cochrane Chair in Econometrics & Business Statistics at Monash University's Faculty of Business and Economics. He leads the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, specializing in non- and semi-parametric econometrics, time-series analysis, and panel data methodologies. His research focuses on developing statistical models for climate change, energy demand, and financial forecasting. Affiliations: Monash University, Impact Labs Grants: Multiple ARC Discovery Projects (e.g., 2020–2025 on climate-energy time series, 2017–2020 on econometric model building) Collaborations: CSIRO, Yale University, and international partners from China, Norway, and Singapore Research interests include climate econometrics, financial time series, and policy evaluation. Over 136 publications span econometric theory and applications, with recent work on nonlinear trending models and quantile regression. His grants emphasize methodological advancements in time series and panel data analysis. Awards: Not explicitly mentioned, but recognition includes Australian Professorial Fellow status and international research leadership roles. Advising/Grants: Primary Investigator on multiple ARC-funded projects, focusing on climate modeling and financial econometrics Labs/Teams: Part of Monash's Impact Labs and collaborates with global institutions on climate and econometric initiatives

• Labour Economics
• Economics of Education
• Micro-Econometrics
• +۲ مورد دیگر

Matthias Parey is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Surrey. He holds additional roles as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), a Researcher at the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC), and a Research Associate at ZEW. His research spans Labour economics Economics of education Micro-econometrics Inequality Economics of innovation . His recent publications analyze high-skilled migration selection, trade shocks, cannabis market size estimation, and gasoline demand elasticity. He has contributed to journals like Review of Economics and Statistics , Economica , and Journal of the European Economic Association . Scientific awards include fellowships at IFS and IZA. His work on trade shocks examines gender-specific labor supply responses to Chinese import competition, while his cannabis market research introduces a forensic economics approach using legal inputs. Earlier studies focus on maternal education impacts on child development and the long-term labor market effects of Erasmus student exchanges.

• Nonparametric Statistics
• High Dimensional Data Analysis
• Statistical Methods in Finance
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Vladimir Spokoiny is a Professor at the Departments of Mathematics and Economics of the Humboldt University of Berlin and Head of the Research Group "Stochastic Algorithms and Nonparametric Statistics" at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) in Berlin, Germany. His research spans multiple areas of statistics, machine learning, and financial mathematics, with significant contributions to nonparametric statistics, high-dimensional data analysis, and statistical methods in finance. Spokoiny received his M.Sc. in applied mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineering in 1981 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1988. He completed his Habilitation at Humboldt University in 1996. His academic career includes positions at the All-Union Institute of Railway Transport in Moscow, the Institute for Information Transmission Problems in Moscow, and the Institute for Applied Analysis and Statistics in Berlin before joining the Weierstrass Institute and Humboldt University where he has been a professor since 2002. Spokoiny's research focuses on adaptive nonparametric smoothing and hypothesis testing, high dimensional data analysis, statistical methods in finance, image analysis with applications to medicine, classification, and nonlinear time series. His work often addresses the challenges of nonstationarity in time series data and develops innovative methods for volatility estimation and risk management. He has made significant contributions to the development of adaptive weights smoothing procedures, which have applications in image processing, community detection, and manifold learning. His recent work has expanded into high-dimensional statistics, Bayesian inference, and optimization methods for machine learning, with publications demonstrating novel approaches to Gaussian approximation, Laplace methods, and statistical inference in non-Euclidean spaces. Spokoiny has supervised numerous PhD students including Oliver Reiss, Danilo Mercurio, Ying Chen, Elmar Diederichs, and Mstislav Elagin, whose research has focused on mathematical finance, time series analysis, and statistical methods. He serves as an Associate Editor for The Annals of Statistics (since 2004) and Statistics and Decisions (since 2002), and has previously served on the editorial board of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. His professional activities include reviewing for major statistical journals including Annals of Statistics, Bernoulli, Econometrica, and Journal of American Statistical Association, as well as reviewing grant proposals for the National Science Foundation (USA), German Research Foundation, and Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Spokoiny is a member of several professional societies including the International Statistical Institute, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Bernoulli Society. He is fluent in Russian (mother tongue), English, and German, and has good knowledge of French. His research group at WIAS focuses on developing novel statistical methodologies with applications across various scientific domains, particularly emphasizing adaptivity and robustness in complex data environments. The group's work has significant implications for financial risk management, medical imaging, and machine learning applications, with recent publications addressing fundamental questions in high-dimensional statistics and nonparametric inference.

Masoud Asgharianمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Survival Analysis
• Changepoint Problem
• Nonparametric Bayesian Analysis
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Masoud Asgharian is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University. His research focuses on survival analysis, changepoint problems, nonparametric Bayesian methods, and data envelopment analysis. He has contributed to influential studies on dementia survival rates, censored data methodologies, and statistical efficiency measures. His work bridges biostatistics and operations research, with applications in public health and medical sciences. Key contributions include methodologies for prevalent cohort survival analysis, input relaxation efficiency measures in stochastic DEA, and causal inference techniques. Asgharian has collaborated extensively with researchers in epidemiology and biomedical engineering, as evidenced by his co-authored publications on topics ranging from tooth enamel properties to low-precision neural network quantization. His research has been published in high-impact journals such as New England Journal of Medicine , Journal of the American Statistical Association , and Biometrics . Current affiliations include leadership roles in statistical research at McGill, with ongoing projects in computational statistics and healthcare analytics.

Ismael Castilloمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Mathematical Statistics
• Bayesian Nonparametrics
• High-Dimensional Inference
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Ismael Castillo is a Professor of Statistics at Sorbonne Université , affiliated with the Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation (LPSM) and its Statistics, Data, Algorithms team. He serves as Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics , Bernoulli , and co-Editor for Bayesian Analysis . Research Interests : Mathematical statistics with emphasis on Bayesian nonparametrics , inference in high-dimensional structures , uncertainty quantification , and applications in signal processing and life sciences . Recent Work spans deep neural networks with heavy-tailed weights , posterior and variational inference , fractional posteriors in semiparametric models , and deep Gaussian processes . His publications demonstrate expertise in multiple testing procedures , Spike and Slab priors , and nonparametric Bayesian methods . Awards : IMS Fellow , Honorary Fellow of Institut Universitaire de France , and Best Paper Prize (2021) for research on Pólya tree posterior distributions. Students : Supervised PhD candidates Paul Egels , Thibault Randrianarisoa , and co-supervised Bo Ning (FSMP postdoc) and Kweku Abraham (Hadamard postdoc). Grants : ANR BACKUP (2023-2027, coordinator) and ANR GAP (2021-2025, member).

Xiaofeng Shaoمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Econometrics
• Time Series Analysis
• Change-Point Analysis
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Xiaofeng Shao is a Professor of Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis, with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and previously served at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 18 years. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. His research focuses on econometrics, time series analysis, change-point detection, high-dimensional statistics, nonparametric methods, and functional data analysis. Recent work emphasizes object-valued time series modeling and machine learning applications in high-dimensional and imaging data. Notable contributions include the dependent wild bootstrap method and self-normalization techniques for time series inference. Key awards include Fellowships from leading statistical societies. His publications span over 20 years, addressing topics like change-point detection in climate projections, statistical methods for COVID-19 infection trends, and high-dimensional dependence testing.

Tengyao Wangمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• High-dimensional Statistics
• Change-point Analysis
• Sparse Signal Detection
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Tengyao Wang is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), serving as the MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) Programme Director. Prior to LSE, he held positions as a Lecturer at University College London and a Research Fellow at the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on high-dimensional statistics, computational efficiency, and statistical limitations imposed by computational constraints. Education: PhD in Statistics under Prof Richard Samworth at the University of Cambridge, with earlier studies including a Part III Essay in Empirical Process Theory. Research interests include sparse signal detection, change-point analysis, dimension reduction, robust statistics, and applications in medical statistics, financial data analysis, and material discovery. Key contributions include methodologies for handling missing data, high-dimensional change-point detection algorithms, and statistical learning techniques. Publications span theoretical advancements and applied innovations, with recent work emphasizing deep learning with missing data, residual permutation tests, and semi-supervised learning via random projections. His work has been recognized with awards such as the Royal Statistical Society Research Prize (2019) and the Guy Medal in Bronze (2023). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (JRSS B), and actively contributes to open-source tools like the 'ocd' and 'MissInspect' R packages for changepoint detection and missing data analysis.

Zhipeng Liaoمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Applied Econometrics
• Econometrics
• Econometric Theory
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Zhipeng Liao is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he contributes to the Department of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and specializes in econometric theory and applied econometrics. His research focuses on developing statistical methods for evaluating economic models, nonstationary time series analysis, and robust inference in semi/nonparametric frameworks. Professor Liao's work has been published in leading journals such as the Annals of Statistics , Econometrica , and the Review of Economic Studies . He serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, including Econometric Reviews , Econometric Theory , and Journal of Business & Economic Statistics . His research interests span econometric theory, time series analysis, panel data modeling, and nonparametric inference, with applications to financial economics and macroeconomic modeling. His recent publications emphasize methodological advancements in hypothesis testing, model selection, and robust estimation techniques. These include contributions to the analysis of spatially dependent panel data, instrumental variables methods, and the evaluation of macro-finance models. His work bridges theoretical econometrics with practical applications, addressing challenges such as endogeneity, model misspecification, and computational efficiency. Liao’s editorial roles reflect his influence in shaping the direction of econometric research. His research has implications for policy analysis, financial market modeling, and empirical studies requiring rigorous statistical foundations. Despite the breadth of his contributions, no specific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided text.

Rina Foygel Barberمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Statistics
• Statistical Inference
• Distribution-Free Inference
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Rina Foygel Barber is the Louis Block Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, where she also serves as Co-chair of the Committee on Community, Diversity, and Inclusion (CCDI) and is a member of the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM). Her educational background includes: PhD in Statistics, University of Chicago (2012), advised by Mathias Drton and Nati Srebro MS in Mathematics, University of Chicago (2009) ScB in Mathematics, Brown University (2005) NSF postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University Department of Statistics (2012-13), supervised by Emmanuel Candès Professor Barber's research focuses on the theoretical foundations of statistical problems in estimation, prediction, and inference, particularly in high-dimensional settings where classical methods may not be reliable. She specializes in distribution-free inference methods such as conformal prediction, multiple testing methods, algorithmic stability, and shape-constrained inference. Her work also extends to modeling and optimization problems in medical imaging reconstruction. Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on distribution-free inference, with particular emphasis on conformal prediction, false discovery rate control, and algorithmic stability. Her work bridges theoretical statistics with practical applications, especially in the medical imaging domain. Professor Barber has received numerous prestigious awards: Elected to National Academy of Sciences (2025) MacArthur Fellowship (2023) IMS Fellow (2023) COPSS Presidents' Award (2020) Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize (2020) She actively mentors students and collaborators, with many co-authored publications across statistics, machine learning, and medical imaging. Her research has been supported by significant grants that enable her work on theoretical foundations of statistical inference and practical applications in medical imaging. Professor Barber also co-organizes the International Seminar on Selective Inference. Her research group focuses on developing and analyzing estimation, inference, and optimization tools for structured high-dimensional data problems. They work on false discovery rate control, distribution-free inference, and applications in medical imaging reconstruction.

Axel Gandyمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computational Statistics
• Statistics in Finance
• Survival Analysis
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Axel Gandy is a Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. He serves as Director of the EPSRC CDT in Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning , overseeing PhD supervision and advanced statistical training.

Debdeep Patiمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Machine Learning
• Bayesian Statistics
• High Dimensional Data Analysis
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Debdeep Pati is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, affiliated with the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences. His research focuses on Bayesian methods, high-dimensional data analysis, machine learning, and computational statistics, with applications in health data and network analysis. He has contributed to approximate Bayesian computation, graphical models, and fair algorithms. Key research interests include Bayes theory in high dimensions, hierarchical modeling, efficient Bayesian computation, and real-time tracking algorithms. His work bridges theoretical advancements with practical applications in areas like electronic health records and nuclear physics constraints. Recent work emphasizes Wasserstein-guided nonparametric Bayes, fair clustering algorithms, and variational inference in singular models. He has developed software for covariate-dependent Gaussian graphical modeling, published in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software . Grants: NSF proposal on Wasserstein-guided nonparametric Bayes, NIH R01/R21 grants on periodontal disease and diabetes comorbidity. Advising: No named advisees listed but actively supervising research in Bayesian computation and high-dimensional statistics. Awards: 2024 JASA reproducibility award for 'Covariate-Assisted Bayesian Graph Learning.' He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and has organized workshops at Banff International Research Station (BIRS) and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMSI).

Yuguo Chenمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Network Analysis
• Monte Carlo Methods
• Statistical Inference
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Yuguo Chen is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), serving as Interim Department Chair and Director of the Illinois Statistics Office. He holds affiliations with the Department of Computer Science, Information Trust Institute, Coordinated Science Lab, and Illinois Informatics Institute. Chen earned his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University (2001) and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China (1997). His research focuses on Monte Carlo methods, network data analysis, state space models, bioinformatics, and Bayesian inference. Key interests include scalable network estimation, community detection, and applications in public health, education, and computational biology. Recent work highlights include advancements in dynamic network modeling, Bayesian latent class models for cognitive diagnosis, and statistical methods for analyzing multi-layer networks. His contributions have been recognized through awards such as the American Statistical Association Fellowship (2018) and the Charles Edison Lectureship (2018). Editorial Roles: Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association , Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics , and Journal of Algebraic Statistics . Grants & Consulting: Directs the Illinois Statistics Office, providing interdisciplinary research support. Active in collaborative projects involving healthcare, education, and computational infrastructure. Labs & Teams: Leads initiatives at the Coordinated Science Lab and Information Trust Institute, integrating statistical methods with cybersecurity and data-driven decision-making.