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Vivak Patel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He focuses on research at the intersection of numerical optimization and statistical estimation, with applications in dynamical systems. His work emphasizes the design of statistical estimators that are practically computable while retaining desirable statistical properties. Additionally, he investigates the use of optimization methods that solve minimization problems involving uncertainty, further contributing to the fields of machine learning and numerical linear algebra, particularly in load modeling for power systems.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences