Siddharth Vishwanath
I am a Stefan E. Warschawski :Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UC San Diego, mentored by Ery Arias-Castro.
I completed my Ph.D. at Penn State University, advised by Bharath Sriperumbudur, where my dissertation was recognized with the Alumni Association Dissertation Award. During my time at Penn State, I was also a research assistant and consultant with the Statistical Consulting Center.
My research interests lie in the intersection of the following areas:
- Inference from relational data
- multidimensional scaling
- embedding methods for graphs
- network data analysis
- Topological data analysis
- robust topological inference
- statistical inference from topological summaries and Betti numbers
- Statistical learning
- differential privacy in statistics and machine learning
- reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces in probability and statistics
- Sampling
- MCMC and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
- generative models
Prior to academia, I worked as a quantitative researcher at Goldman Sachs, and as a model validation quant at Nomura. I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur with a degree in Mathematics and Statistics.
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A Visiting Assistant Professor in a Math department is a postdoctoral position with (sometimes) better parking privileges.