I am a Lister Brothers Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT.  My research focuses on various topics in artificial intelligence, optimization, and statistics.  Here is a list of some information about me (CV, Publications, Contact*).  

Short Bio: I obtained my B.A. from Harvard with a concentration in applied mathematics and a minor in philosophy, and my Ph.D.  from UC Berkeley in statistics. Before joining MIT, I held a postdoctoral position in the machine learning and statistics group at Microsoft Research.  

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*For those interest in joining my group as a doctoral student, please do not email me. Instead, submit your application to MIT EECS and list me as a reader (info here). 

Affiliations 

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• Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)

• Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems (LIDS)

• MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC)

• MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML)

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Teaching

• 6.401 - Introduction to Data Science and Statistics (Spring 2021)

• 6.036 - Introduction to Machine Learning (Spring 2022)

• 6.S080 - AI, Decision Making and Society (Fall 2022)

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• I am a co-chair for the 2021 Rising Stars Workshop program hosted by MIT EECS

• I am co-organizing the Berkeley Simons program on Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling.

• I am co-organizing the Berkeley Simons workshop on Optimization Under Symmetry

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