Specialization: Statistics

• Curtis Atkisson

  

  Curtis Atkisson joined the eScience Institute in Feb 2024. He received his PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from UC Davis with a designated emphasis in Computational Social Science. His dissertation was on how changes in people’s complex social networks impact their cooperative behavior. This work involved ethnography, participant observation, and surveys done amongst the Makushi (and…

• Arkajyoti Saha

  

  I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington hosted by Daniela Witten and Jacob Bien. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, advised by Nilanjan Chatterjee and Abhirup Datta. I completed my M.Stat (Specialization: Mathematical Statistics and Probability) & B.Stat from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata prior to that. My primary research…

• Steve Mussmann

  

  Steve is an IFDS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington working with Kevin Jamieson and Ludwig Schmidt on machine learning methods that reduce the required amount of data. He received a B.S. in 2015 from Purdue University in math, statistics, and computer science and…

• Gang Li

  

  Gang is a UW Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the eScience Institute working with Prof. William Stafford Noble. His postdoctoral work focuses on developing machine learning methods for interpreting high-throughput genomic data sets with respect to 3D genome architecture, with a particular emphasis on embryonic development in mouse.

• Monica Keith

  

  As an anthropologist, I research biocultural variation in health disparities and child growth outcomes across diverse populations. I develop Bayesian models to make data-driven inferences and am currently working with longitudinal data from Argentina, Bangladesh, Dominica, and the US to address concerns and disparities in maternal health, pregnancy outcomes, infant and child growth, disease ecologies,…

• Anupama Jha

  

  I started my career as a software engineer; my undergrad degree is in computer science. After working for two years in the industry developing navigation systems for cars, I got a master’s degree at TU Munich. There I discovered my two passions: machine learning and computational biology. I went on to obtain a Ph.D. degree…

• Rayleigh Lei

  

  I am a post-doc in the Department of Statistics. Motivated by data sets with interesting phenomena, but few variables to describe or explain the phenomena, I work to develop, fit, and understand the statistical properties of Bayesian models. Currently, I am working with Prof. Abel Rodriguez on creating and implementing circular models to better represent…

• Tyler McCormick

  

  Tyler McCormick is an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Washington, where he is also a core faculty member in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences and a Senior Data Science Fellow of the eScience Institute. His research develops statistical models that leverage social network structure to understand the…

• Ben Marwick

  

  Ben Marwick’s main research activities combine models from evolutionary ecology with analyses of archaeological evidence to investigate past human behaviour. Specific interests include the hominin colonisation of mainland Southeast Asia, forager technologies and ecology in Australia, mainland Southeast Asia and Africa. Ben directs the UW Geoarchaeology Laboratory and studies archaeology and popular culture, specifically blockbuster…

• Maryam Fazel

  

  Maryam Fazel is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, with adjunct appointments in the departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics, and Statistics. Maryam received her MS and PhD in EE from Stanford University, her BS in EE from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Control and…