Georgia E. Smits

About Me

I am a fifth-year PhD Candidate in Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Cornell University, advised by Professor David S. Matteson and with mentorship from my committee members Professor Sumanta Basu and Professor Martin T. Wells. My work focuses on developing Bayesian and machine learning methods for complex, noisy time series data.

Research Interests

Time Series: Changepoint detection, Bayesian trend filtering, Stochastic processes, Time series classification

Machine Learning: Algorithmic bias reduction, Synthetic data generation, Model compression techniques

Education

(In progress) PhD in Statistics, Cornell University

MS in Statistics, Cornell University

BS in Physics (Intensive), Yale University