Cosma Shalizi
| Cosma Shalizi | |
|---|---|
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Cosma Rohilla Shalizi | |
| Born |
February 28, 1974 Boston, United States |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Physics, Statistics |
| Institutions |
Carnegie Mellon University Santa Fe Institute University of Michigan |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Doctoral advisor | James P. Crutchfield |
| Known for | CSSR algorithm |
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi (born February 28, 1974) is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Shalizi is co-author of the CSSR algorithm, which exploits entropy properties to efficiently extract Markov Models from time-series data without assuming a parametric form for the model.[1]
Shalizi writes a popular science blog "Three-Toed Sloth".
Background
Born in Boston, Shalizi lived there for the first two years of his life before moving to Bethesda, Maryland where he grew up. He is of Tamil, Afghan and Italian heritage.[2]
In 1990 he was accepted as a Chancellor's Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a bachelor's degree in Physics. Subsequently, he attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received a doctorate in physics in May 2001. From 1998 to 2002, he worked at the Santa Fe Institute, in the Evolving Cellular Automata Project and the Computation, Dynamics and Inference group. Afterwards, from 2002 to 2005, he worked at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
In August 2006, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.[3]
References
- ↑ http://bactra.org/CSSR/
- ↑ "Cosma Shalizi's Homepage".
- ↑ Shalizi, Cosma. "Cosma Shalizi's Homepage". Retrieved 2016-02-25.