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. 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:
- MTH210a: Statistical Computing
- HMC for Dummies
- Visualize convergences in MCMC
- Computational Statistics Reading Group at IIT Kanpur
- Movie Recommendations
Upcoming Talks/Visits:
- 29-9 June, Summer School for Women in Mathematics and Statistics, ICTS
- 20-23 June, University of Edinburgh Seminar
- 26-30 June, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Paris.
- 20-25 Aug, ICIAM, Tokyo
news
| May 5, 2023 | This summer, I will be a GSoC mentor for Siddharth Pathak who will be working on our R package, SimTools! |
| Mar 22, 2023 | I am honored to be one of the recipients of the Prof. R. N. Biswas Young Faculty Fellowship in Teaching Excellence at IIT Kanpur. |
| Nov 16, 2022 | I am excited and honored to be one of the recipients of the Google India Research Award for the project “Towards reliable and robust ML: Estimating Variability in Stochastic Gradient Descent” |
| Oct 12, 2022 | Medha Agarwal’s work on “A principled stopping rule for importance sampling” has been accepted for publication in the Electronic Journal of Statistics! Co-author: Víctor Elvira. |
| Aug 22, 2022 | I am delighted and honored to join the editorial board of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS) as an Associate Editor! |