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John Duchi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. His research interests encompass statistical learning, optimization, information theory, and computation. Duchi's work focuses on the development of statistical learning procedures that efficiently trade real-world resources while maintaining statistical efficiency. He aims to create large-scale optimization methods that are robust and effective, as well as develop tools that assure the validity and confidence in machine-learned systems. Duchi has received several prestigious awards, including the SIAM/OPT Early Career Prize in 2020 and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research in 2019. He is also recognized for his contributions to the field through various accolades, such as the Paper Award at the Neural Information Processing Systems in 2017 and several honors from the Sloan Foundation. Duchi's academic background includes a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University, and both a Master of Arts in Statistics and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.
Stanford University • Stanford, California
Teaching and conducting research in statistics, optimization, and machine learning.
The Computer Science department emphasizes research potential. GRE General is currently optional but recommended for some tracks.