Joseph K. Blitzstein

Assistant Professor of Statistics

Research Interests

• Graphical models
• Complex networks: biological, social, and information networks
• Monte Carlo methods
• Importance Sampling and Variance-Reduction Techniques
• Combinatorics and random structures

Education

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stanford University, June 2006.
• M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University, June 2003.
• B.S. in Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, June 1999.

Experience

• July 2006 -- now, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Harvard University
• January 2000 -- March 2006, Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University

Sample Publications

• Blitzstein, J. and Diaconis, P. (2006). A Sequential Importance Sampling Algorithm for Generating Random Graphs with Prescribed Degrees, submitted.

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