Spring 2026 Class Schedule

AMS 699: Dissertation Research On Campus

I am TAing AMS 580: Statistical Learning.

Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:00-6:00pm 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 586: Time Series in Fall 2025.

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