Benson Au

• 313 Evans Hall

• Department of Statistics
• University of California, Berkeley
• 367 Evans Hall # 3860
• Berkeley, CA 94720-3860

I am a Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor in the statistics department at the University of California, Berkeley. I am interested in random matrices and related topics.

1. BBP phenomena for deformed random band matrices. [arXiv]
2. (with Jorge Garza-Vargas) Spectral asymptotics for contracted tensor ensembles. [arXiv]
3. Semicircular families of general covariance from Wigner matrices with permuted entries. Probab. Theory Related Fields 184 (2022), no. 3-4, 1167-1196. [journal ]
4. (with Camille Male) Rigid structures in the universal enveloping traffic space. [arXiv]
5. Finite-rank perturbations of random band matrices via infinitesimal free probability. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 74 (2021), no. 9, 1855-1895. [arXiv, journal]
6. (with Guillaume Cébron, Antoine Dahlqvist, Franck Gabriel, and Camille Male) Freeness over the diagonal for large random matrices. Ann. Probab. 49 (2021), no. 1, 157-179. [arxiv, journal]
7. Traffic distributions of random band matrices. Electron. J. Probab. 23 (2018), no. 77, 48 pp. [journal ]
8. Rigid structures in traffic probability: with a view toward random matrices. UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2018). [eScholarship ]

• Spectral asymptotics for contracted tensor ensembles (poster)

• Fall 2023: Stat 150 (Stochastic Processes)