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Ankit Pensia

Ankit Pensia

Assistant Professor

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, I was a research fellow at the Simons Institute and a Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM Research.

Education

I received my Ph.D. from the Computer Sciences department at UW-Madison in 2023, where I was advised by Po-Ling Loh, Varun Jog, and Ilias Diakonikolas.

Research

My research interests include robust and heavy-tailed statistics, inference under constraints, and machine learning & high-dimensional statistics.