Postdocs and Visitors

Michael Jauch
Postdoctoral Associate

Frank H T Rhodes Hall, Room 657 
maj225@cornell.edu

My research focuses on statistical methodology for multivariate data. I’m interested in time series, functional data, covariance modeling, dimension reduction, etc. My dissertation work addressed challenges arising in Bayesian analyses of statistical models with orthogonal matrix parameters, including computation and prior specification, and other topics related to random orthogonal matrices.

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Jonas Lybker Juul
Postdoctoral Associate

Frank H T Rhodes Hall, Room 657 
jsj85@cornell.edu

I am interested in networks and how things spread in networked systems. My work addresses applied and theoretical questions in data science. In my most recent work I tried to understand how content spreads online. Do the different kinds of content spread differently online? Does false information reach a larger audience than true information? I approach such questions by developing appropriate statistical tools and drawing on methods from probability theory, dynamical systems and network science.

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Andrew Thomas
Postdoctoral Associate

Frank H T Rhodes Hall, Room 657 
amt269@cornell.edu

My work is in applied probability and stochastic topology. Envision raindrops hitting pavement: what is the number of dry regions surrounded by wet ones? The questions I’m interested in range from investigating the limiting behavior of topological functionals treated as stochastic processes to how to apply methods from topological data analysis. I am particularly intrigued by the interaction between extreme value theory and stochastic topology, wanting to understand the statistical properties of various summaries of shape when they arise from low-density regions.

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