Martin Wainwright (statistician)

Martin Wainwright
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo (B.Math)
Harvard University (M.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
AwardsSloan Research Fellowship (2005)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006)
COPSS Presidents' Award (2014)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics, machine learning
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisStochastic processes on graphs with cycles: geometric and variational approaches (2002)
Doctoral advisorAlan S. Willsky
Tommi S. Jaakkola
Other academic advisorsMichael I. Jordan
Websitewainwrigwork.github.io

Martin James Wainwright (born 1973)[1] is a statistician and the Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a position he has held since July 2022. At MIT, Wainwright is also affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, where he is a principal investigator, and a member of the Statistics and Data Science Center.[2][3]

Before joining MIT in 2022, Wainwright was part of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he held the Howard Friesen Chair at the time of his departure.[2]

  1. ^ Wainwright, Martin J. (2002). Stochastic processes on graphs with cycles: geometric and variational approaches (Ph.D. thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. hdl:1721.1/8371. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Martin Wainwright joins MIT faculty and LIDS". MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. July 1, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  3. ^ "Martin Wainwright". MIT Statistics + Data Science Center. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on November 29, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2024.