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I am a PhD candidate in the Operations Research & Financial Engineering (ORFE) department at Princeton University, where my research interests include mathematical statistics and probability theory. Currently I am working with my advisor Matias Cattaneo on nonparametric network estimation, martingale coupling theory and random forest procedures.

I am currently on the academic job market, seeking positions starting in the latter half of 2024.

Biography

I received an MA degree in ORFE from Princeton in 2021. Before moving to New Jersey, I obtained my MMath in Mathematics & Statistics from the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford in 2019. I was supervised there by Mihai Cucuringu, and wrote my master’s dissertation on Motif-Based Spectral Clustering of Weighted Directed Networks. I am an alumnus of St John’s College, Oxford.

In my spare time I enjoy choral singing, classical piano, chess and programming, as well as hiking, skiing and playing squash.

Contact

Contact me by email at wgu2@princeton.edu with any questions! Other contact details are available on my contact page, and you can download my CV here.

Teaching

I have served as an Assistant in Instruction for these classes at Princeton University:

• ORF 498: Senior Independent Research Foundations, with Daniel Rigobon, Fall 2023
• SML 201: Introduction to Data Science, with Daisy Yan Huang, Fall 2023
• ORF 363: Computing and Optimization, with Ioannis Akrotirianakis, Spring 2023
• ORF 524: Statistical Theory and Methods, with Matias Cattaneo, Fall 2022
• ORF 526: Probability Theory, with Mykhaylo Shkolnikov, Fall 2022
• ORF 524: Statistical Theory and Methods, with Matias Cattaneo, Fall 2021
• ORF 245: Fundamentals of Statistics, with Matias Cattaneo, Spring 2021
• ORF 363: Computing and Optimization, with Amir Ali Ahmadi, Fall 2020

Awards

• School of Engineering and Applied Science Award for Excellence
  Princeton University, September 2022
• Francis Robbins Upton Fellowship in Engineering
  Princeton University, September 2019
• Gibbs Statistics Prize
  University of Oxford, July 2019
• Royal Statistical Society Prize
  Royal Statistical Society & University of Oxford, July 2019
• Academic Exhibition
  St John's College, University of Oxford, July 2016

Peer Review

• Econometric Theory
• Journal of the American Statistical Association
• Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
• Journal of Causal Inference
• Operations Research

Conferences

• Statistical Foundations of Data Science and their Applications
  Princeton University, May 2023
  Local organizing committee member