Dootika Vats
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.
Students: If you’re interesed in working with me, see team tab.
Quick links:
- Elementary Problems in R - Book
- HMC for Dummies
- Visualize convergences in MCMC
- Movie Recommendations
Upcoming Talks/Visits:
- 10th - 12th December, Workshop on Methodology and MCMC, Eurandom, Eindhoven
- 13th - 17th January, exSPLOre 26, Ashoka University
- 6th April - 17th April, ICTS-Networks Workshop “Challenged in Networks”
news
| Nov 13, 2025 | Kushagra Gupta’s (former UG) first paper on “Estimating Monte Carlo variance from multiple Markov chains” has been accepted into the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics! |
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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! |