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Statistics & Data Science Seminar

S&DS Seminar: Guy Bresler (MIT)

Speaker: Guy Bresler (MIT) Associate Professor, EECS MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, February 9, 2026 3:30PM - 5:00PM Tea in 1307 at 3:30pm Talk in 1327 at 4:00pm Location: Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science, Kline Tower 13th Floor, Room 1327, New Haven, CT 06511 and via Webcast: https://yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9a9641c5-6fad-4d17-8e8b-b3b700eef933

Speaker bio: Guy Bresler is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where he works at the interface of information theory, statistics, theoretical computer science, and probability to develop mathematical models that yield engineering insight into practically relevant problems in high-dimensional inference. His research focuses in particular on the relationship between combinatorial structure and computational tractability, and he co-organized a Simons Institute program advancing this direction. He is a member of MIT LIDS, the Theory of Computation group, the Center for Statistics, FODSI, and IDSS, and previously was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT with David Gamarnik and Devavrat Shah after earning his PhD in EECS at UC Berkeley advised by David Tse, following undergraduate studies in ECE at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign mentored by Bruce Hajek. Bresler advises students Kiril Bangachev, Alina Harbuzova, and Chenghao Guo (joint with Yury Polyanskiy), hosts postdoc Stefan Tiegel, and has mentored a broad group of alumni now spanning academia and industry, including faculty at Yale, UPenn, Technion, UC Davis, and ENSAE/CREST, as well as researchers at Google Research; he also remembers with deep appreciation Matthew Brennan, a beloved member of the group who passed away in 2021.

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