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Dennis returns to Stanford in January to become Associate Professor (Teaching) of Statistics. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 2015 under the advising of Jonathan Taylor, he most recently has been…
Two more Fellows will join the Statistics Department in September: Alden Green and Shuangping Li. Alden received his PhD from the Department of Data Science and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon…
Two new Fellows will join the Statistics Department in September: Dan Daniel Erdmann-Pham and recent PhD graduate Michael Sklar. Earlier this year Dan received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from UC…
Scott W. Linderman arrives at Stanford from postdoctoral work in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University, where his thesis,…
The Simons Foundation is proud to announce the creation of a joint Chair, shared equally between a Mathematics department and a partner department, by the Math+X: Encouraging Interactions Program. The…
Julia A. Palacios comes to Stanford from joint postdoctoral research at Harvard University and Brown University. She completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Washington in 2013. Her…
With an appointment that starts on September 1st, Emily comes to Stanford from the University of Washington where she has held the post of Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in the Paul G. Allen…
Tengyu Ma comes to the department from Princeton University where he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science advised by Sanjeev Arora. His undergraduate studies were at Tsinghua University. With a joint…
The department is pleased to announce this profound recognition of our colleague and offer heartfelt congratulations!
Vishesh Jain will join our department in mid-December, direct from the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing where he is currently a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellow for the program on…