Rahul Mazumder

I am a PhD student in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. My advisor is Trevor Hastie. I am planning to graduate in Summer 2012.

I spent two enjoyable summers (in 2009 and 2010) as a Research Intern at the Machine Learning & Statistics Group at Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA. I worked with Deepak Agarwal on statistical modeling and algorithmics for recommender-system problems.

You can reach me at rahulm@stanford.edu

Research Interests

General Interests : statistical learning, large scale convex optimization and the interplay between the two.

Specific Interests : high dimensional statistics, analyzing massive data, multivariate analysis, algorithms (including convergence & complexity analysis), statistical computing.

Specific methodology topics

• collaborative filtering / matrix completion (regularization)

• covariance estimation / Gaussian graphical modeling

• high dimensional structured sparse regression

Application areas

• recommender systems in internet/web industry applications

• spatial statistics, experimental turbulence and geology

• others: speech signal segmentation, bio-statistics