Pragya Surمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Pragya Sur is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Harvard University and currently on leave as a Visiting Professor at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Her research focuses on high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, particularly in overparametrized models, causal inference, and learning under distribution shifts. She has held postdoctoral positions at Harvard’s Center for Research on Computation and Society (hosted by Cynthia Dwork) and was a Simons Institute Long-Term Participant at UC Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University under Emmanuel Candès, and completed her B.Stat and M.Stat at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Sur’s work has been supported by NSF awards, the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund, and the William F. Milton Fund. She was named an International Strategy Forum (ISF) Fellow (2023) and led the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) New Researchers Group (2022–2024). She serves as an Associate Editor for Statistical Science and Guest Co-Editor for a special issue on AI and statistics. Her research contributions span theoretical guarantees for machine learning, transfer learning, and debiasing techniques in high-dimensional inference. Awards: NSF CAREER Award, Theodore W. Anderson Dissertation Award, Ric Weiland Fellowship Education: Ph.D. in Statistics (Stanford, 2019); M.Stat (ISI Kolkata, 2014); B.Stat (ISI Kolkata, 2012) Professional Roles: Associate Editor, Statistical Science ; ISF Fellow (2023); former IMS New Researchers Group Lead Her current research emphasizes statistical theory for modern machine learning, including foundational work on overparametrized models and robust inference across heterogeneous environments.







