I am a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at
Department of
Statistics at Columbia University, working under the supervision of
Bodhisattva Sen.
Previously, I received my PhD from
UC Berkeley
and my BS from Stanford.
Contact me by reordering the following strings:
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My research is at the intersection of probability, statistics, and geometry. Some specific topics I'm interested in include: clustering, variational inference, empirical Bayes, non-Euclidean statistics, Riemannian optimization, stochastic optimization, and optimal transport.
Selected publications:
- A Strong Duality Principle for Equivalence Couplings and Total Variation. Electronic Journal of Probability. 28, 1-33
- Limit Theorems for Fréchet Mean Sets with Steve N. Evans. Bernoulli. 30(1), 419-447.
- Fréchet Mean Set Estimation in the Hausdorff Metric, via Relaxation with Moïse Blanchard. To appear in Bernoulli (2024+).