I acknowledge past and current financial support from the National Science Foundation (DMS and MMS programs), the University of Michigan Rackham Grant (2007-2008), and from the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (2002-2006).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (by topic). FULL LIST
- MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO
- Unbiased Markov Chain Monte Carlo with couplings. JRSS-B with discussion (to appear). Joint with Pierre Jacob, and John O'Leary.
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo Confidence Intervals. (File in pdf). Bernoulli 22 (3), 1808-1838, (2016).
- Kernel Estimators of asymptotic variance for adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo (file in pdf, with a supplement paper). Annals of Statistics 39, No 2, 990-1011 (2011).
- Limit Theorems for some adaptive MCMC algorithms with sub-geometric kernels. With Gersende Fort. (file in pdf). Bernoulli 16 (2010), 116-154.
- On adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, with Jeff Rosenthal, Bernoulli 11 (2005), 815-828. (file in pdf).
- HIGH-DIMENSIONAL BAYESIAN ASYMPTOTICS
- An approach to large-scale quasi-Bayesian inference with spike-and-slab prior . Joint with Anwesha Bhattacharyya.
- A scalable quasi-Bayesian framework for Gaussian graphical models. (File in pdf). A Matlab implementation is available here.
- On the contraction properties of some high-dimensional quasi-posterior distributions. (File in pdf). Annals of Statistics 45, 2248-2273 (2017).
- STATE SPACE MODELS
- Inference for dynamic and latent variable models via iterated, perturbed Bayes maps. With E. Ionides, D. Nguyen, S. Stoev, and A. King. PNAS 112 (3) 719-724 (2015).
- Iterated Filtering. With Edward Ionides,
Anindya Bhadra and
Aaron King. Annals of Statistics, Vol. 39, 1776-1802 (2011).
- STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION
- Scalable Computation of Regularized Precision Matrices via Stochastic Optimization. (File in pdf). Joint with Rahul Mazumder, and Jie Chen.
- On perturbed Proximal Gradient Algorithms, joint with Eric Moulines, and Gersende Fort. JMLR 18, 1-33 (2017).
- CHANGE-POINTS MODELS
- A scalable algorithm for Gaussian graphical models with change-points, joint with Leland Bybee. JMLR (to appear).
- Change-point Estimation in High-dimensional Markov Random Fields, with a supplement. Joint with Sandipan Roy, and George Michailidis. JRSS-B 79, 1187-1206 (2017).
STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS
- Joonha Park (postdoc, 2018-)
- Keer Jiang (2018-)
- Liwei Wang (2018-)
- Qiuyun Zhu (2018-)
- Gautam Sabnis (postdoc, 2017-2019)
- Leland Bybee (2016-2017, Master student)
- Anwesha Bhattacharyya (2015-)
- Jun Guo (2013-2018)
- Chia Chye Yee (2011-2016)
- Sandipan Roy (2010-2015, with George Michailidis)
- Yang Yang (2006-2011, with Vijay Nair)
- Jing Wang (2006-2011, with Anocha Aribarg)