Scholar
Ankit Pensia
Google Scholar ID: u1Qs7YIAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Citations & Impact
Citations
729
H-index
13
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
25
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published papers such as 'SoS Certifiability of Subgaussian Distributions and its Algorithmic Applications' (with Ilias Diakonikolas, Samuel B. Hopkins, Stefan Tiegel), accepted to STOC 2025, and 'A Sub-Quadratic Time Algorithm for Robust Sparse Mean Estimation', presented as a Spotlight at ICML 2024.
Research Experience
- Was a research fellow at the Simons Institute and a Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM Research.
Education
- Received his Ph.D. from the Computer Sciences department at UW-Madison in 2023, advised by Po-Ling Loh, Varun Jog, and Ilias Diakonikolas. Prior to that, he spent five years at IIT Kanpur.
Background
- Research interests include robust and heavy-tailed statistics, inference under constraints, and machine learning & high-dimensional statistics. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Miscellany
- Feel free to contact him at ankitpensia94@gmail.com.
