Omar Hagrass

Department of Statistics

Penn State University  

331A Thomas Building

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: +1.646.796.5047

E-mail: oih3 AT psu DOT edu

About me


I am a Ph. D. student in the Department of Statistics at Penn State University. I am advised by Prof. Bharath K. Sriperumbudur  and co-advised by Prof. Bing Li. 

Research Interests


Curriculum Vitae    Google Scholar    Linkedin


Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics, Penn State University, 2018 - present.
  • B.S. in Communications and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Zewail City, Egypt, 2013 - 2018 

Publications and Manuscripts

Preprints: 


  • Hagrass, O., Sriperumbudur, B. K., Balasubramanian, K. (2023+). Minimax Optimal Goodness-of-Fit Tests with Kernel Stein Discrepancy [arXiv].

Under Review:
  • Hagrass, O., Sriperumbudur, B. K., Li, B. (2023). Spectral Regularized Kernel Goodness-of-Fit Tests. Submitted to Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) [arXiv]


Accepted:
  • Hagrass, O., Sriperumbudur, B. K., Li, B. (2022). Spectral Regularized Kernel Two-Sample Tests. Accepted at The Annals of Statistics, 2024 [arXiv] [Code]


Teaching Experience
Graduate Instructor 
The Pennsylvania State University
  • STAT 184: Introduction to R (Spring 2022)
  • STAT 200: Elementary Statistics (Summer 2021, Summer 2020)
  • STAT 318: Elementary Probability Theory (Spring 2021, Fall 2020)
  • STAT 100: Statistical Concepts and Reasoning (Spring 2020)
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
The Pennsylvania State University
  • STAT 517 (Grad): Probability Theory (Fall 2023)
  • STAT 561 (Grad): Statistical Inference I (Spring 2023)
  • STAT 597 (Grad): Non-Parametric Methods and Learning Theory (Fall 2022)
  • STAT 511 (Grad): Regression Analysis and Modeling (Fall 2022)
  • STAT 200: Elementary Statistics (Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2021)
  • STAT 414: Introduction to Probability Theory (Spring 2019)
  • STAT 415: Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (Fall 2018)