Joe Blitzstein
Professor of the Practice in Statistics and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University at Harvard Kennedy School
Biography
Harvard Kennedy School
I'm Joe Blitzstein, an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. I finished my Ph.D. work at Stanford University in 2006, advised by the inimitable Persi Diaconis.My research is a mixture of statistics, probability, and combinatorics. I'm especially interested in graphical models, complex networks, and Monte Carlo algorithms (including both sequential importance sampling and Markov chains).
Research Interests
- Inference for network data
- Foundational issues in Statistics and Data Science
Education
Statistics Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stanford University, June 2006.
- M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University, June 2003.
- B.S. in Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, June 1999.
Experience
- July 2011 -- now, Professor of the Practice in Statistics, Harvard University
- July 2006 -- June 2011, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Harvard University
- January 2000 -- March 2006, Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Videos
Joseph Blitzstein: "The Soul of Statistics" | Harvard Thinks Big 4
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