Martin Wainwright (statistician) explained

Fields:Statistics, machine learning
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Awards:Sloan Research Fellowship (2005)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006)
COPSS Presidents' Award (2014)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2024)
Alma Mater:University of Waterloo (B.Math)
Harvard University (M.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Thesis Title:Stochastic processes on graphs with cycles: geometric and variational approaches
Thesis Url:https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/8371
Thesis Year:2002
Doctoral Advisor:Alan S. Willsky
Tommi S. Jaakkola
Academic Advisors:Michael I. Jordan
Workplaces:University of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Martin James Wainwright (born 1973)[1] is a statistician and the Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a position he has held since July 2022. At MIT, Wainwright is also affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, where he is a principal investigator, and a member of the Statistics and Data Science Center.[2] [3]

Before joining MIT in 2022, Wainwright was part of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he held the Howard Friesen Chair at the time of his departure.

Education and career

Wainwright earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 1994[4] and a master's degree in vision science from Harvard University in 1998.[5] [6] [7] In 2002, Wainwright completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervison of Alan S. Willsky and Tommi S. Jaakkola. His dissertation, which he developed at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, was titled Stochastic processes on graphs with cycles: geometric and variational approaches.[8] For his thesis, Wainwright received the electrical engineering and computer science department's George M. Sprowls Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in computer science.[9]

Following his Ph.D., Wainwright moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a postdoctoral researcher for Michael I. Jordan from 2002 to 2004.[10] [11] In the fall of 2004, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment between the Department of Statistics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.[12] [13] [14] [15]

In July 2022, he returned to MIT, becoming the Cecil H. Green Professor in both the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he is in the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making, and the Department of Mathematics.[16]

Awards and recognition

Wainwright has received multiple awards for his work, including the COPSS Presidents' Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in 2014 for his "fundamental and ground-breaking contributions to high-dimensional statistics, graphical modelling, machine learning, optimization and algorithms..., as well as new methodology with wide-ranging implications for numerous applications".[17] [18] From the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, he received a Medallion Award and Lecture in 2013[19] and the Blackwell Award and Lecture in 2017.[20] [21]

He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2005,[22] [23] National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006,[24] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024.[25] [26]

Wainwright was selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2014 "for his fundamental research in statistical machine learning and high-dimensional statistics".[27] [28]

Publications

In addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals and conference proceedings, Wainwright has (co-)authored the following three books:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Wainwright . Martin J. . 2002 . Stochastic processes on graphs with cycles: geometric and variational approaches . Ph.D. . Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . 1721.1/8371 . October 3, 2024.
  2. Web site: Martin Wainwright joins MIT faculty and LIDS . . . October 4, 2024 . July 1, 2022.
  3. Web site: Martin Wainwright . MIT Statistics + Data Science Center . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221129001934/https://stat.mit.edu/people/martin-wainwright/ . November 29, 2022 . live.
  4. Web site: COPSS Award for alumnus Martin Wainwright . . October 3, 2024 . October 17, 2014 . September 6, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906202530/https://uwaterloo.ca/math/news/copss-award-alumnus-martin-wainwright . live .
  5. Contributors . . May 2003 . 49 . 5 . 1381 . 10.1109/TIT.2003.810621 . October 3, 2024 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151010082619/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1197872 . October 10, 2015 . Martin J. Wainwright received the B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1994, the M.S. degree in vision science from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2002..
  6. Wanucha . Genevieve . Data Deluge . LIDS/ALL . . October 3, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221008124108/https://lidsmag.lids.mit.edu/2011/data_deluge.html . October 8, 2022 . 2011 . Martin works as a professor ... at UC Berkeley. These days, he's spending his sabbatical here at LIDS. It's not far from home, actually, as Martin earned his PhD here in 2002. ... After receiving his undergraduate degree in mathematics, he [Wainwright] earned a Masters in neuroscience from Harvard. . live.
  7. Web site: Alumni – Graduate Students . Harvard Vision Sciences Laboratory . . October 3, 2024 . https://archive.today/20241003182642/https://visionlab.harvard.edu/members.alumni.php?memberID=graduate . October 3, 2024 . live . Martin Wainwright, graduate student (PhD), 1994–1996.
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  9. June 4, 2003 . 2003 MIT Award Winners – Electrical engineering and computer science . . . 47 . 31 . 12 . 1721.3/204350 . https://web.archive.org/web/20041124182924/http://web.mit.edu:80/newsoffice/2003/print/awards-eecs-0604-print.html . November 24, 2004 . October 4, 2024 . dead.
  10. Web site: Michael I. Jordan (CV) . Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160804165034/http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/jordan-cv.pdf . August 4, 2016 . Postdoctoral Supervision ... Martin Wainwright, 2002–2004 . live.
  11. Web site: EECS/ERL Roster (no students) . Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20020811224205/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/Rosters/roster.name.nostudentee.html . August 11, 2002 . dead . [Name:] Wainwright, Martin James ... [Status:] Postdoctorate ... [Sub-Affiliation:] jordan.
  12. Web site: New Faculty in EECS . Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20041024005153/http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu:80/Faculty/Lists/new.shtml . October 24, 2004 . dead.
  13. Web site: Martin Wainwright: Biography . Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050401041426/http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/biography.html . April 1, 2005 . dead.
  14. Web site: Martin Wainwright . . 26 April 2013 . October 4, 2024.
  15. Web site: EECS Faculty List . Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20041009180345/http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu:80/Faculty/Lists/list.shtml . October 9, 2004 . dead.
  16. Web site: New Faculty (2021-2022) . . . October 4, 2024 . July 29, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240729075748/https://computing.mit.edu/faculty/new-faculty-2021/ . live .
  17. Web site: COPSS Awards at JSM . . October 4, 2024 . October 1, 2014.
  18. Web site: 2014 COPSS Presidents' Award Winner . . October 4, 2024 . May 30, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240530220219/https://community.amstat.org/copss/awards/presidents/2014 . live .
  19. Web site: IMS Special Invited Lecturers in 2013 . . October 4, 2024 . October 3, 2012 . June 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230610145053/https://imstat.org/2012/10/03/ims-special-invited-lecturers-in-2013/ . live .
  20. Web site: Special Lectures in 2017 . . October 4, 2024 . May 15, 2017.
  21. Web site: Honored Special Awards & Lecturers Recipient List . . October 4, 2024.
  22. Web site: Sloan Research Fellowships – Research Fellowship Award Winners of 2005 . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050404185023/http://www.sloan.org/programs/fellowshiplist.shtml . April 4, 2005 . dead.
  23. Web site: 2005 Annual Report . . October 4, 2024 . 2 . September 6, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240906001504/https://sloan.org/storage/app/media/files/annual_reports/2005_annual_report.pdf . live .
  24. Web site: CAREER: Novel Message-Passing Algorithms for Distributed Computation in Graphical Models: Theory and Applications in Signal Processing . . October 4, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20241004143921/https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0545862 . October 4, 2024 . live.
  25. Web site: Costello . Sarah . Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships . . . October 4, 2024 . April 26, 2024.
  26. Web site: Fellows: Martin J. Wainwright . . October 4, 2024 . July 23, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240723005450/https://www.gf.org/fellows/martin-j-wainwright/ . live .
  27. Web site: IMS Fellows 2014 . . October 4, 2024 . July 1, 2014 . April 19, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240419132325/https://imstat.org/2014/07/01/ims-fellows-2014/ . live .
  28. Web site: Prof. Martin Wainwright is named IMS Fellow . Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley . . October 4, 2024 . July 25, 2014.

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