About me
I am a tenure stream assistant professor in statistics at the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences,
University of Toronto Scarborough and the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto. I also
hold a non-budgetary cross appointment at the
Department of Computer Science.
Before joining U of T in July 2018, I was a non-tenure track assistant professor in financial mathematics at
the
Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California.
I received my PhD in Mathematics from the
University of Washington in 2016
under the supervison of
Soumik Pal. I also completed an MPhil
in Mathematics at
The Chinese University of Hong Kong under
the guidance of
Ka Sing Lau.
I am an associate editor of the journal
Information Geometry (2022-present).
Research
Research interests:
Mathematical finance, probability, optimal transport, information geometry, and their applications.
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Funding:
My research is partially supported by
NSERC Discovery Grant (RGPIN-2019-04419).
In 2020 I was happy to receive a
Connaught New Researcher Award.
I also gratefully acknowledge support from the
Data Science Institute Seed Funding for Methodologists (2022).
PhD students:
Madhu Gunasingam (Statistics)
Amanjit Kainth (Computer Science, cosupervised by
Frank Rudzicz)
Steven Campbell (Statistics, cosupervised by
Yuchong Zhang) (defended 2023)