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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.



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:

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

  • Journal of the American Statistical Association
  • Econometric Theory
  • Journal of Business and Economic Statistics