Department of Statistics and Operations Research
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hanes Hall B30
Email: iain@unc.edu
GitHub: idc9
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hanes Hall B30
Email: iain@unc.edu
GitHub: idc9
Research Interests
I am interested in developing and analyzing statistical algorithms for non-standard data such as: networks, text, images, and high-dimensional data. My research draws on probability, optimization, and statistics/machine learning and is currently driven by problems from the law and medical imaging.
I am a graduate student in Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where I am co-advised by Shankar Bhamidi and J.S Marron. Before coming to North Carolina I majored in math and physics at Cornell University where I graduated in 2014 (Cum Laude). As an undergraduate I worked on the CuSat engineering project team and in a bio-phyiscs lab led by Carl Franck. Over summer 2016 I interned for Gamalon, a Bayesian machine learning startup.
In addition to doing research, I believe in making data science and the ability to reason about data more accessible to people without an advanced degree or even a traditional STEM background. This means teaching a practically focused combination of programming (R/Python), statistics, and communication skills. With funding from Data@Carolina (and a lot of help) I developed a new course for the undergraduate statistics major, STOR 390: Introduction to Data Science.
I am interested in developing and analyzing statistical algorithms for non-standard data such as: networks, text, images, and high-dimensional data. My research draws on probability, optimization, and statistics/machine learning and is currently driven by problems from the law and medical imaging.
- Joint analysis of image and genetic data coming from applications in cancer genetics
- Support Vector Machine behavior in high-dimensional settings (paper)
- Large scale network and text analysis of the US legal system
- AJIVE: dimensionality reduction for multiple data blocks (Python, R packages)
- Change point detection in growing networks
I am a graduate student in Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where I am co-advised by Shankar Bhamidi and J.S Marron. Before coming to North Carolina I majored in math and physics at Cornell University where I graduated in 2014 (Cum Laude). As an undergraduate I worked on the CuSat engineering project team and in a bio-phyiscs lab led by Carl Franck. Over summer 2016 I interned for Gamalon, a Bayesian machine learning startup.
In addition to doing research, I believe in making data science and the ability to reason about data more accessible to people without an advanced degree or even a traditional STEM background. This means teaching a practically focused combination of programming (R/Python), statistics, and communication skills. With funding from Data@Carolina (and a lot of help) I developed a new course for the undergraduate statistics major, STOR 390: Introduction to Data Science.