Year Graduated:
2014
Statistics Ph.D. Program
B.A, Mathematics, University of Maine, May 2007
Office / Location:
343 Evans Hall
Email:
derek [at] stat [dot] berkeley [dot] edu
Website:
Primary Research Area:
Applied & Theoretical Statistics
Dissertation:
Topics in high dimensional statistics
Dissertation Advisor:
Bickel and El Karoui
I'm a fifth year Ph.D. Student in the Department of Statistics at University of California, Berkeley. Broadly, my research interests fall under the heading of high-dimensional statistics. Specifically, I am interested in understanding the behavior of classical statistical procedures in high-dimensional settings. I've also studied dimensionality-reduction procedures under assumptions of non-Gaussian data.
Recent publications
- D. Bean, P. Bickel, N. El Karoui and B. Yu. Optimal M-estimation in high-dimensional regression. Accepted in Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America.
- N. El Karoui, D. Bean, P. Bickel, C. Lim and B. Yu. On robust regression with high-dimensional predictors. Accepted in PNAS
- D. Bean, N. El Karoui, P. Bickel, C. Lim and B. Yu. Penalized robust regression in high-dimension. Tech report
- D. Shilane and D. Bean. Growth estimators and confidence intervals for the mean of negative binomial random variables with unknown dispersion.