Martin J. Wainwright

Martin Wainwright is the Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Mathematics at MIT, and affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, the Statistics and Data Science Center, and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society. He joined the MIT faculty in July 2022 after spending 20 years in Statistics and EECS at the University of California at Berkeley. Martin is broadly interested in statistics, machine learning, and algorithms. His work has been recognized by various awards, among them the COPSS Presidents’ Award from the Joint Statistical Societies, the David Blackwell Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a Section Lecturer from the International Congress of Mathematicians, and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. He has co-authored several books, covering topics such as graphical models and sparse statistical models, and wrote the book “High-Dimensional Statistics: A Non-Asymptotic Viewpoint”.