Fall 2026 Class Schedule

AMS 598: Big Data Analysis

AMS 699: Dissertation Research On Campus

I am TAing AMS 586: Time Series.

Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-4:30pm in Harriman 202.

I taught AMS 394: Statistical Laboratory in Fall 2023 (Syllabus) and AMS 412: Mathematical Statistics in Spring 2025 (Syllabus), and TAed AMS 580: Statistical Learning in Spring 2026.

A few quotes, theorems, and phenomenons that I find very interesting:

Keynesian beauty contest / Tactical voting

Block what you can, randomize what you cannot.¹

Occam’s razor

Power law of practice

Law of the unconscious statistician (LOTUS)

Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO)

Birthday paradox / birthday problem

Simpson’s paradox

Inspection paradox

Monty Hall problem / Three Prisoners problem

Prisoner’s dilemma

Deterministic vs. Stochastic Models (i.e. Tractability vs. Validity)²