Yuval Benjamini
Applied Statsitics and Data Science
News
Starting in March '24, I'll be looking for Masters and PhD students in Explainable ML / AI,
statistical methods for neuroscience, or other topics in the interface of statistics and ML.
If you are interested, please contact me !Our work (lead Bitya Neuhof) on Confidence Intervals for Feature Importance Ranks was accepted to AISTATS. If interested, check out the Arxiv version.
About
Senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Hebrew University.
Co-Director of Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science (CIDR) .
Research
Using prediction models for scientific discovery.
Model summarization and feature importance ("XAI") , prediction of variance ceiling, extrapolation and transfer measurements, model comparisons.Exploration and statistical inference for large scale data,
in particular samples are large and complicated, includingNeuroscience im(fMRI, multi-electrode neuronal data).
Genomic signals such as DNA-sequencing coverage or DNA-methylation.
Other data that is hard to collect, such as manually collected social network data, cognitive test battery scores, etc.