Dootika Vats

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dootika at iitk.ac.in

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Previously, I was an NSF Postdocotoral fellow with Prof. Gareth Roberts at the University of Warwick. My PhD was from the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities working with Prof. Galin Jones.

My research interests are: Markov chain Monte Carlo, output analysis for stochastic simulation. Recently, I’ve also been interested in stochastic optimization algorithms.

I serve as an Associate Editor for Bayesian Analysis, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, and Sankhya B.

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Oct 27, 2025 Rahul Singh and Abhinek Shukla work on “On the Utility of Equal Batch Sizes for Inference in Stochastic Gradient Descent” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Machine Learning Research!
Oct 17, 2025 It is a pleasure to join the Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference!
Oct 16, 2025 Arghya Mukherjee’s (PhD) first paper on “Scalable Bayesian inference for high-dimensional mixed-type multivariate spatial data” is now on arxiv!
Sep 23, 2025 Arka Banerjee’s work on “Efficient Multivariate Initial Sequence Estimators for MCMC” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics!
Aug 26, 2025 Delighted and honored to be receiving the Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2025 at IIT Kanpur!