Dootika Vats
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur.
dootika *at* iitk.ac.in
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Before moving to Kanpur, I was an NSF Postdocotoral fellow with Prof. Gareth Roberts. My PhD was from the School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities working with Prof. Galin Jones.
I work in the general area of Bayesian computation and specifically focus on Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms. My collaborators and I develop theoretically founded and practically relevant tools for MCMC output analysis (see software tab). I am also interested in the theoretical properties of Markov chain samplers including rates of convergence.
Students: If you’re interesed in working with me, see students tab.
Quick links:
- Computational Statistics Reading Group at IIT Kanpur
Upcoming Talks:
- 19th January, IIM Bangalore (Online).
- 23rd-27th Feb, Recent Advances in Statistical Theory and Applications (RASTA-2022) (Online).
- 8th-9th July, 6th EAC-ISBA, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
news
| Jan 20, 2022 | Medha Agarwal’s work on on “Globally-centered autocovariances in MCMC” has been accepted for publication in JCGS! |
| Oct 19, 2021 | I am honored to be one of the recipients of the Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award given by j-ISBA this year! |
| Oct 3, 2021 | Our work on “Lugsail lag windows for estimating time-average covariance matrices” has been accepted in Biometrika! Co-author: James Flegal. |
| Sep 6, 2021 | New version 1.5-0 of mcmcse is now live on CRAN! Lots of performance improvements were made by Kushagra Gupta as part of Google Summer of Code. |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Had a wonderful time mentoring and teaching young women at the 3rd edition of the Summer School For Women in Mathematics and Statistics at ICTS (online) over the last two weeks. |