Benson Au

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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.

Research articles:
  1. (with Jorge Garza-Vargas) Spectral asymptotics for contracted tensor ensembles. Preprint. arXiv:2110.01652
  2. Semicircular families of general covariance from Wigner matrices with permuted entries. Probab. Theory Related Fields. doi:10.1007/s00440-022-01143-y
  3. (with Camille Male) Rigid structures in the universal enveloping traffic space. Preprint. arXiv:2011.05472
  4. Finite-rank perturbations of random band matrices via infinitesimal free probability. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 74 (2021), no. 9, 1855-1895. doi:10.1002/cpa.21924 [shareable link from publisher]
  5. (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. doi:10.1214/20-AOP1447
  6. Traffic distributions of random band matrices. Electron. J. Probab. 23 (2018), no. 77, 48 pp. doi:10.1214/18-EJP205
  7. Rigid structures in traffic probability: with a view toward random matrices. UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2018). escholarship.org/uc/item/6cb5s2t5
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