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FDS Colloquium: John Duchi (Stanford)
Speaker bio: John Duchi is an associate professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His work spans statistical learning, optimization, information theory, and computation, with a few driving goals. (1) To discover statistical learning procedures that optimally trade between real-world resources — computation, communication, privacy provided to study participants — while maintaining statistical efficiency. (2) To build…
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FDS Colloquium: Tim Roughgarden (Columbia & a16z crypto)
Speaker bio: Tim Roughgarden is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University and the Founding Head of Research at a16z crypto. Prior to joining Columbia, he spent 15 years on the computer science faculty at Stanford, following a PhD at Cornell and a postdoc at UC Berkeley. His research interests include the…
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FDS Colloquium: Purnamrita Sarkar (UT Austin)
Speaker bio: Purnamrita Sarkar is an associate professor of Statistics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she works at the intersection of high-dimensional statistics, optimization, and machine learning theory. She is a co-PI in EnCORE: Institute for Emerging CORE Methods of Data Science and is affiliated with the Institute for Foundations of Machine…