Zachary Lubberts

Hi there!

I'm a data scientist. In my case, that means: some optimization, some programming, some signal processing, some probability and statistics, and a lot of linear algebra. My recent work has focused on statistics on graphs, and natural language processing.

I finished my PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 2019, advised by Youngmi Hur (now at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea). In my dissertation, Generating Tight Wavelet Frames from Sums of Squares Representations, I used tools from real algebraic geometry to construct nonseparable multivariate tight wavelet frames with many vanishing moments. These frames can be used to better capture signals with strong directional content that is not aligned with the main coordinate axes, useful for compression, denoising, or signal extraction. Before that, I studied Philosophy and Applied Math and Statistics in undergraduate, also at JHU (2010-2013).

I teach courses on a wide range of topics, including mathematical computing, optimization, probability and statistics, and real analysis, to students at all levels of undergraduate, masters, and PhD study, and in several different modalities. This spring, I'm teaching the graduate-level Statistical Machine Learning course (STAT 5630).

Recent Updates

• "Joint Spectral Clustering in Multilayer Degree-Corrected Stochastic Blockmodels " is now available at the Journal of the American Statistical Association!

• I am very grateful to have received a CosmicAI Seed Funding grant for my work on merger trees: Announcement here 

• Ga Ming (Angus) Chan successfully defended his dissertation!!

• "Perfect clustering in nonuniform hypergraphs" is now available on arXiv: arXiv:2504.08980 

• Adriel Barretto's work “Limiting distributions of ratios of Binomial random variables" was accepted at The Oculus undergraduate research journal.

• "Euclidean mirrors and first-order changepoints in network time series" is now available on arXiv: arXiv:2405.11111 

• "Euclidean Mirrors and Dynamics in Network Time Series" is now available at the Journal of the American Statistical Association!

• "Random line graphs and inference for networks with edge attributes" is now available at Bernoulli