Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest U.S. government honor for early-career scientists
Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics
NSF CAREER Award
Emerging Leader Award from COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies)
Early career awards from the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Faculty research awards from Adobe and Google
Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
Statistician of the Year 2025 by the ASA Pittsburgh Chapter
Program Chair of AISTATS 2026
Published over 150 peer-reviewed papers: ~50% in top journals (e.g., The Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, PNAS), including discussion papers in JRSSB and JASA; ~50% in top AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, UAI, AISTATS), with over a dozen orals/spotlights
Delivered keynote talks at Lunteren, AISTATS, VCMF; invited tutorials at CUSO, KDD, ICML
Background
Associate Professor (with tenure) at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the Department of Statistics and Data Science (75%) and the Machine Learning Department (25%)
Research focuses on mathematical statistics and machine learning, emphasizing algorithms with strong theoretical guarantees that also work well in practice
Main research interests include: post-selection inference (multiple testing, simultaneous inference), game-theoretic statistics (e-values, confidence sequences), and predictive uncertainty quantification (conformal prediction, calibration)
Applied interests span privacy, neuroscience, genetics, and auditing (elections, real estate, finance, fairness)
Co-organizes the StatML Group at CMU
Miscellany
Passionate about backpacking through over 70 countries