address: 4400 University Drive, MS 4A7, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA Before joining Mason as a faculty member, I spent two years as a postdoc at Rutgers, hosted by Ping Li. I did my PhD in the Machine Learning Group at Saarland University, Germany, as a member of one of the prime graduate schools in Computer Science in Europe with more than 75 faculty and 300 PhDs. Even before that, I obtained a diploma (comparable to BSc + MSc + PhD level coursework) in Statistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen. My CV is available here. Research Interests: Dimension reduction, Data Compression, High-Dimensional Statistics, Convex Geometry, Discrete and Continuous Optimization, Matrix Factorizations, Non-asymptotic Random Matrix Theory, Applications in the Life Sciences. Tentative syllabus for my class "Optimization for Statistical Modeling" (STAT 689) in Fall 2018. |
