About me
I am the William B. Ransford Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Columbia University.
I work in machine learning and Bayesian statistics. See my CV and publications.
I work with a great group of students and
postdocs.
Machine Learning at Columbia
Columbia has a thriving
machine learning community, with many faculty and
researchers across departments.
The Machine
Learning at Columbia mailing list is a good source of
information about talks and other events on campus. (To
subscribe, send email to
machine-learning-columbia+subscribe@googlegroups.com.)
Teaching
In Fall 2025 I am teaching STCS 6701: Probabilistic Models and Machine Learning. It is a doctoral course, joint in Statistics and Computer Science. See my earlier offerings to get a sense of the syllabus.
STCS 6701 is open to all students at Columbia. If you are interested, please join the waiting list. We will admit students after the first week of the semester. Note we first give priority to PhD students and then admit masters and undergraduates. (In the past, there has been space for anyone who would like to take the course.)
All my earlier courses are here.