Summer Visitors

Every summer, we invite up to two eminent statisticians/probabilists to teach a short special topic course to our Ph.D. students. These 1-2 week-long courses, allow our Ph.D. students to engage with an eminent researcher to learn and discuss advanced topics in a relaxed setting. Recent Summer Visitors include Peter Buhlmann, John Lafferty, Sourav Chatterjee, Minge Xie, Denis Talay, Liza Levina, and Roman Vershynin.

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Professor, University of California, Berkeley

David Aldous

Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/
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Professor, Institut für Mathematik Universität Zürich

Jean Bertoin

Professor, Institut für Mathematik Universität Zürich

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www.math.uzh.ch/index.php?id=people&key1=6119

Year of Visit: 2008

Topics Course: G8201D - Topics in Probability

"An introduction to subordinators and Levy processes"


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Professor, ETH Zurich

Peter Buhlmann

Professor, ETH Zurich

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://stat.ethz.ch/~buhlmann/

Year of Visit: Summer 2020

Topics Course: "Causality -- in a wide sense."


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Professor, The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

Andreas Buja

Professor, The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~buja/

Year of Visit: Summer 2009

Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics

"Lectures on Statistics and Data Analysis"


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Professor, Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation, Sorbonne Université

Ismael Castillo

Professor, Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation, Sorbonne Université

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.proba.jussieu.fr/~castillo/
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Professor, Stanford University

Sourav Chatterjee

Professor, Stanford University

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~souravc/

Year of Visit: Summer 2016

Topics Course: G8201 - Topics in Probability

"A short course in Stein's method"


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Professor, Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Guido Consonni

Professor, Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://docenti.unicatt.it/ita/guido_consonni/

Year of Visit: Summer 2011

Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics

"Objective Bayesian Model Choice"


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Jay Devore

Professor

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
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Professor of Gatsby Computational Neuroscience, University College London

Arthur Gretton

Professor of Gatsby Computational Neuroscience, University College London

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
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David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism and Innovation; Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation, Columbia School of Journalism

Mark Hansen

David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism and Innovation; Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation, Columbia School of Journalism

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/mark-hansen

Year of Visit: Summer 2012

Topics Course: G8201D - Topics in Probability


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Professor, Harvard School of Public Health

Miguel Hernan

Professor, Harvard School of Public Health

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/
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Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Michael Jordan

Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/
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Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northland College

Young S. Kim

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northland College

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
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Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mathematics

Vladimir Koltchinskii

Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mathematics

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://math.gatech.edu/people/vladimir-koltchinskii

Year of Visit: Summer 2019

Topics Course: GR8301 - Probability Theory

"Estimation of Functionals of High-Dimensional Parameters"


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Professor, Athens Univ of Economics & Business

Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Professor, Athens Univ of Economics & Business

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://pages.cs.aueb.gr/~yiannisk/

Year of Visit: Summer 2010

Topics Course: G8201D - Topics in Probability

"Non-asymptotics: Probability, entropy and additive combinatorics"


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Professor, The University of Chicago

John Lafferty

Professor, The University of Chicago

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://galton.uchicago.edu/~lafferty/

Year of Visit: Summer 2016

Topics Course: G8200(1) - Topics in Statistics

"High Dimensional Statistical Learning"


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Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics, Stanford University

Tze Leung Lai

Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics, Stanford University

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~ckirby/lai/

Year of Visit: Summer 2019

Topics Course: GR8201D - Topics in Statistics

"The financial industry (Wall Street) and the broader economy (Main Street) undergo cycles of boom and bust."

Year of Visit: Summer 2015

Topics Course: GR8200D - Topics in Statistics

"Statistical Methods for Medical Product Safety Evaluation"


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Professor, University of Chicago

Steven Lalley

Professor, University of Chicago

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://galton.uchicago.edu/~lalley/
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Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor and Chair, Michigan Institute for Data Science

Liza Levina

Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor and Chair, Michigan Institute for Data Science

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://dept.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~elevina/

Year of Visit: Summer 2018

Topics Course: GR8201D – Topics in Statistics

"Statistical models and algorithms for analyzing network data."


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Professor Department of Statistical Science, Duke University

Fan Li

Professor Department of Statistical Science, Duke University

Email: fl35@duke.edu
Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
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Professor, Harvard University

Xihong Lin

Professor, Harvard University

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/xihong-lin/

Year of Visit: 2021

Topics Course: G8201 - Topics in Theoretical Statistics


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Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras

George Moustakides

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.ssp.ece.upatras.gr/moustakides/
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Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michael Newton

Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~newton/

Year of Visit: Summer 2013

Topics Course: G8200 - Topics in Statistics

"Statistical Modeling in Cancer and Molecular Biology"

 


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Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University

Mark Podolskij

Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.podolskij.uni-hd.de/

Year of Visit: Summer 2012

Topics Course: G8201D- Topics in Probability


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Professor, School of Public Health, Harvard University

James Robins

Professor, School of Public Health, Harvard University

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/james-robins/
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Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and École Polytechnique, Paris

Mathieu Rosenbaum

Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and École Polytechnique, Paris

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.crest.fr/ses.php?user=3046
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John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, Harvard University

Donald Rubin

John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, Harvard University

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/people/donald-b-rubin
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Professor, The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School

Larry Shepp

Professor, The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~shepp/pict/Larryshepp.JPG
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Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor, Department of Statistics and the College, University of Chicago

Michael Stein

Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor, Department of Statistics and the College, University of Chicago

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://galton.uchicago.edu/~stein/

Year of Visit: Summer 2014

Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics

"Gaussian Processes: Theory, Applications and Computation"

 


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Professor, École Polytechnique

Denis Talay

Professor, École Polytechnique

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Denis.Talay/me.html

Year of Visit: Summer 2017

Topics Course: GR8301D – Topics in Probability

The course is aimed to introduce the analysis of invariant measures of ergodic diffusion processes with two main motivations: the paramedic estimation of ergodic diffusions and the long time behaviour of numerical simulations.


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Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine and Associate Director of the Center for Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization

Roman Vershynin

Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine and Associate Director of the Center for Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www.math.uci.edu/~rvershyn/

Year of Visit: Summer 2018

Topics Course: GR8301D – Topics in Probability

"Introduction to high-dimensional probability and its applications."


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Professor, Department of Statistics and in the Machine Learning Department , Carnegie Mellon University

Larry Wasserman

Professor, Department of Statistics and in the Machine Learning Department , Carnegie Mellon University

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/

Year of Visit: Summer 2010

Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics

"Statistical Machine Learning"

 


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Professor, London School of Economics

Henry Wynn

Professor, London School of Economics

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchandexpertise/experts/profile.aspx?KeyValue=h.wynn%40lse.ac.uk

Year of Visit: Summer 2011

Topics Course: G8201D - Topics in Probability


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Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University

Minge Xie

Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.stat.rutgers.edu/home/mxie/
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Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Benjamin Yakir

Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~msby/
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Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Bin Yu

Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~binyu/Site/Welcome.html

Year of Visit: Summer 2008

Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics

"Information Theory and Statistics"


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Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin

Thaleia Zariphopailou

Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin

Program(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/zariphop/

Year of Visit: Summer 2015

Topics Course: G8201 - Topics in Probability

"Stochastic optimization in optimal portfolio selection and pricing in incomplete markets."


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