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 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Sankhya B.
Students: If you’re interesed in working with me, see students tab.
Quick links:
- MTH208: Data Science Lab I
- Elementary Problems in R - Book
- HMC for Dummies
- Visualize convergences in MCMC
- Movie Recommendations
Upcoming Talks/Visits:
- 25-29th November, Isaac Newton Institute, Monte Carlo sampling: beyond the diffusive regime
- 9-10th January, STOR-i Annual Conference, Lancaster University
- 2-13th June, Summer School for Women in Math and Stat, ICTS
- 16-20th June, BayesComp 2025, Singapore
- 23rd June - 4th July, MATRIX Institute Workshop, Australia
news
| Jul 23, 2024 | Honored to be a chosen as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences! |
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| Jul 01, 2024 | Promoted to Associate Professor (wef July 2023)! |
| Jun 09, 2024 | Congratulations to Arka Banerjee for being selected as a Fullbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellow for 2024! |
| May 23, 2024 | Arka Banerjee’s work on “Multivariate strong invariance principles in Markov chain Monte Carlo” has been accepted for publication in the Electronic Journal of Statistics! |
| Feb 01, 2024 | Honored to be invited as a speaker for Indian Women and Mathematics’ Visitor Programme in 2023. As part of this program, I will be delivering semi-popular talks on undergraduate mathematics at various universities. |