Koulik Khamaru
Department Of Statistics PhD Student About meI am Koulik, a sixth year PhD student at Department Of Statistics, UC Berkeley. I am fortunate to be jointly advised by Professor Martin J. Wainwright
and Professor Michael I. Jordan. Before
coming to Berkeley I finished my Undergraduate and Masters in Statistics
from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
In 2019, I spent a wonderful summer at Amazon, working with Professor Dean Foster. In 2020, I was part of the Berkeley-BAIR collaboration and worked under
Professor Lester Mackey
Research interest
My research interests spans theory and application of statistics, machine learning and optimization. Specific areas include EM algorithm, Gaussian mixture models, model mis-specification, factor analysis, reinforcement learning, inference in sequential environments, non-convex optimization. Contact informationkoulik (at) berkeley (dot) edu |