Ngoc Mai Tran

tran at stat.berkeley.edu
 Department of Statistics, 367 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3860

PhD candidate in Statistics, UC Berkeley
Adviser: Bernd Sturmfels

Curriculum Vitae
Research Statement
Teaching Statement

  • General interests:
    • Combinatorics
    • Tropical geometry
    • Applied probability and statistics
  • Keywords in recent work:
    • Quantile estimation for functional data
    • Random planar maps
    • Tropical eigenspace, Polytropes
    • Pairwise ranking, HodgeRank, Perron-Frobenius
    • Hopfield network
    • Size-bias sampling
  • Real-data experience: econometrics, psychology and physics.

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    Brief CV

    Degrees
    • 2008: BSc Honours First Class, University of Melbourne, Australia
      Advised by Peter Hall.
    • 2007: BMath, University of Newcastle, Australia
    Awards Work experience
    • 2008 - 2009: Statistician, Brain Resource Company, Sydney, Australia
    • 2006 - 2009: Statistician, RTCCD, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
    • 2007 - 2008: Research Assistant, University of Newcastle, Australia
    • 2007 - 2008: Teaching Assistant, University of Melbourne, Australia