Students of Persi Diaconis and Their Theses

  • Ali Rejali — Probability theory and additive number theoretic functions (Stanford)
  • Richard Greer — Consistent nonparametric estimation of best linear classification rules: Solving inconsistent systems of linear equalities (Stanford)
  • Arif Zaman — Finite forms of de Finetti's theorem of Markov chains (Stanford)
  • Hani Doss — Bayesian nonparametric estimation of location (Stanford)
  • Douglas Critchlow — The metric method for partially ranked data (Harvard)
  • Peter Matthews — The waiting time to cover a group in random walk (Stanford)
  • Richard Deveaux — The mixture of normal regression problems (Stanford)
  • Alex McMillan — Robustness of the James-Stein estimator (Stanford)
  • Andrew Greenhalgh — Probability measures with subgroup invariance properties (Stanford)
  • Daniel Rockmore — Fast Fourier analysis for finite groups (Harvard)
  • Robin Pemantle — Random walk with reinforcement (MIT)
  • Martin Hildebrand — Rates of convergence of some random processes on finite groups (Harvard)
  • Anil Gangolli — Convergence bounds for Markov chains and applications to sampling schemes (Stanford)
  • Eric Belsley — Rates of convergence of Markov chains related to association schemes (Harvard)
  • Jeffrey Rosenthal — Rates of convergence for Gibbs sampler and other Markov chains (Harvard)
  • Carl Dou — Studies of random walks on groups and random graphs (MIT)
  • David Maslen — Fast transforms and sampling for compact groups (Harvard)
  • Eric Rains — Topics in probability on compact Lie groups (Harvard)
  • Francis Su — Measuring rates of convergence of random walks on groups (Harvard)
  • David Steinstaltz — Socks and boxes: Variations on Bernoulli's marriage problem (Harvard)
  • Brad Mann — A Berry-Esseen theorem for Markov chains (Harvard)
  • Farid Bassiri — Random walks on groups with multiplicity two (Harvard)
  • Jeffrey Silver — Rates of convergence in the Metropolis algorithm (Harvard)
  • Nathan Lulov — Random walk on involutions (Harvard)
  • Jason Fulman — Probability in the classical groups over finite fields (Harvard)
  • Igor Pak — Random walk on groups: Strong uniform time approach (Harvard)
  • Kelly Wieand — Eigenvalue distributions of random matrices in the permutation group and compact Lie groups (Harvard)
  • Elizabeth Wilmer — Rate of convergence for some non-reversible Markov chains (Harvard)
  • Asya Takken — Monte Carlo goodness-of-fit tests of discrete data (Stanford)
  • Thomas Yan — A rigorous analysis of the Creutz Demon algorithm for the microcanonical, one-dimensional Ising model (Cornell)
  • Jay-Calvin Uyemura-Reyes — Random walk, semi-direct products and card shuffling (Stanford)
  • Marc Coram — Bayesian nonparametric discrimanent analysis (Stanford)
  • Arnab Chakrabourty — An attempt at optical character recognition for the Bengali language (Stanford)
  • Sourav Chatterjee — Concentration inequalities with exchangeable pairs (Stanford)
  • Joseph Blitzstein — From characterization to algorithm (Stanford)
  • Elizabeth Meckes — An infinitesimal version of Stein's method (Stanford)
  • Daniel Ford — The alpha model for phylogenetic trees (Stanford)
  • Julia Salzman — Spectral analysis for discrete data using Markov chains (Stanford)
  • Geir Helliloid — Enumerative theory of automorphisims of finite p-groups (Stanford)
  • Hua Zhou — Topics on Markov chains with polynomial eigenfunctions (Stanford)
  • Kshitij Khare — Extension of Dynkin's and Diaconis-Evans' constructions of Gaussian fields from Markov processes, etc. (Stanford)
  • Olena Bormishenko — Random walk on the permutation group (Stanford)
  • Sukhada Fadnavis — Graph coloring and birthday problems (Stanford)
  • John Jiang — Markov chains and algorithms (Stanford)
  • Aaron Smith — Coupling bounds for Markov chains (Stanford)
  • James Zhao — A random walk through combinatorial probability (Stanford)
  • Amy Pang — Hopf algebras and Markov chains (Stanford)
  • Sumit Mukherjee — Estimation in exponential families with unknown normalizing constant (Stanford)
  • Megan Bernstein — Random walks on the symmetric group, likelihood orders, and involutions (Stanford)
  • Evita Nestoridi — Rates of convergence of Markov chains to stationarity, strong stationary times, coupling, Gelfand pairs and comparison theory (Stanford)
  • Bhaswar Bhattacharya — Power of graph-based two-sample tests (Stanford)
  • Bobbie Glen Chern — Large deviations approximation to normalizing constants in exponential models (Stanford)
  • Daniel Jerison — The drift and minorization method for reversible Markov chains (Stanford)
  • Amir Sepehri — Nonparametric goodness-of-fit testing and applications (Stanford)
  • Graham White — Combinatorial methods in Markov chain mixing (Stanford)
  • Paulo Orenstein — Topics in robust mean estimation (Stanford)
  • Andy Tsao — New algorithms for simulating from difficult combinatorial problems (Stanford)
  • Guanyang Wang — Topics in Markov chain simulation methods with applications in statistics (Stanford)
  • Chenyang Zhong — Mallows permutation model: Sampling algorithms and probabilistic properties (Stanford)