I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Virginia.

Previously, I was a Stefan E. Warschawski :Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UC San Diego. 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.