Welcome! My name is Akshay and I’m an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada. I recently obtained my PhD in Statistics & Data Science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, PA, which is where I also grew up. I have an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Economics from The Ohio State University.
My PhD thesis was about minimax optimal shape-constrained mean estimation, with extensions for sub-Gaussian noise, adversarial contamination, and non-parametric regression settings. During my PhD, I additionally applied survival analysis techniques (multistate and joint models) to cancer immunotherapy data, as part of a CMU-Novartis collaboration. I’m also a statistician at the Karikari Lab at UPMC, where researchers are exploring the use of blood-based biomarkers as diagnostic tools for Alzheimer’s Disease. For more details, check out the Research and Industry pages.
My non-statistical hobbies include researching individual (value) stocks as well as video games—playing Escape from Tarkov and spectating competitive Advance Wars by Web matches. I also have a Blog for some opinions and tutorials on data visualization.
