Research

Figure by Song Mei from http://proceedings.mlr.press/v65/mei17a.html

Interests

Probability and its connections with other areas, including Statistics, Optimization, Algorithms and (occasionally) Quantum Information. Problems with many degrees of freedom and/or some interesting combinatorial structure.

Representative publications since 2013

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  1. Mixing of the symmetric exclusion processes in terms of the corresponding single-particle random walk. Annals of Probability (2013).
  2. Mean field conditions for coalescing random walks. Annals of Probability (2013).
  3. Approximate group context tree (w/ A. Belloni). Annals of Statistics (2016).
  4. Sub-Gaussian mean estimators (w/ L. Devroye, G. Lugosi & M. Lerasle). Annals of Statistics (2016).
  5. Solving SDPs for synchronization and MaxCut problems via the Grothendieck inequality (with S. Mei, T. Misiakiewicz and A. Montanari). COLT 2017.
  6. Estimating graph parameters with random walks (w/ A. Ben-Hamou & Y. Peres). Mathematical Statistics and Learning 2019. Preliminary version in SODA 2018.

Funding

TBA