Scholar
Purnamrita Sarkar
Google Scholar ID: KfT3_0AAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Statistics and Data Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,009
H-index
23
i10-index
32
Publications
20
Co-authors
26
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, working on asymptotic theory for network models and the nonparametric bootstrap for big data.
Education
- PhD from the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on analyzing theoretical properties of different proximity measures arising from random walks and using them for designing fast algorithms. Undergraduate from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Background
- Associate professor of Statistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Works in the intersection of high-dimensional statistics, optimization, and Machine Learning theory. Co-PI in EnCORE: Institute for Emerging CORE Methods of Data Science and affiliated with the AI institute. Also a GSC member of Computer Science and Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.
