Martin Wainwright (statistician)
Martin Wainwright | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 51–52) |
| Alma mater | University of Waterloo (B.Math) Harvard University (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship (2005) National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006) COPSS Presidents' Award (2014) Guggenheim Fellowship (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics, machine learning |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Stochastic processes on graphs with cycles: geometric and variational approaches (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan S. Willsky Tommi S. Jaakkola |
| Other academic advisors | Michael I. Jordan |
| Website | wainwrigwork |
Martin James Wainwright (born 1973) is a statistician and the Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a position he has held since July 2022. At MIT, Wainwright is also affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, where he is a principal investigator, and a member of the Statistics and Data Science Center.
Before joining MIT in 2022, Wainwright was part of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he held the Howard Friesen Chair at the time of his departure.