Prof. Martin Wainwright

Cecil H Green Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Primary DLC

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT Room: 32-D760

Areas of Interest and Expertise

High-Dimensional Statistics
Statistical Machine Learning
Information Theory and Optimization Theory

Research Summary

Research interests of Professor Wainwright include high-dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning, information theory, and optimization theory. One focus is algorithms and Markov random fields, a class of probabilistic model based on graphs used to capture dependencies in multivariate data: for example, image models, data compression, and computational biology. He also studies the effect of decentralization and communication constraints in statistical inference problems. A final area of interest is methodology and theory for high-dimensional inference problems.

Recent Work