Martin Wainwright

Professor


Website
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig

Office / Location
421 Evans Hall

Phone
(510) 642-5029

Email
wainwrig@stat.berkeley.edu


Research Expertise and Interests
statistical machine learning,?statistics,?Optimization and algorithms,?artificial intelligence

Research Description
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/martin-j-wainwright

In broad terms, I am interested in problems at the interface between computation and statistics. Part of my research focuses on algorithms and Markov random fields, a class of probabilistic model based on graphs used to capture dependencies in multivariate data (e.g., image models, data compression, computational biology). In general, exact solutions to inference problems in such models are computationally intractable, so that there is a great deal of interest in approximate methods for statistical inference. I am also interested in studying the effect of decentralization and communication constraints in statistical inference problems. A final area of interest is methodology and theory for high-dimensional inference problems, in which the model dimension is of the same order (or larger than) the sample size.
Research Areas
High Dimensional Data Analysis
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning