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John Duchi

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John Duchi

Assistant Professor of Statistics
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science
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Mailing Address: 

Department of Statistics
Sequoia Hall
390 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4020

Mailcode: 4065

Phone: 
650.498.5224
Fax: 
650.725.8977
Email: 
jduchi@stanford.edu
Joint Appointment or Affiliation: 
Electrical Engineering
Personal Website: 
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John completed his PhD in the Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley, where he also cycled, ran, swam, and backpacked.

Research Statement: 

My research interests center broadly around optimization, statistics, machine learning, and information theory. I like both theoretical analysis and practical algorithms, and have developed some of the statistical learning algorithms in wide use at Google. I like understanding the fundamental limits and difficulties of estimation problems, especially when considering practical constraints on inferential procedures; some ways this has played out in my research is in the study of inference under privacy constraints, distributed estimation with a limited communication budget, and stochastic approximation.