Berkeley Statistical Machine Learning

We are a group of researchers at UC Berkeley working in statistical machine learning.

Topics of recent interest include:

  • Bayesian computation
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Foundations of deep learning
  • Interpretable machine learning
  • Language and diffusion models
  • Nonparametric inference
  • Probabilistic forecasting
  • Randomized algorithms
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Statistical learning theory
  • Stochastic optimization
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Variational inference
  • Veridical data science

News

Group meetings (Fall 2026): times are listed below. Everyone is welcome! But please send an email first if you’re a new participant.

  • Nika Haghtalab: Tuesdays, 3:10-4:50 pm in Gateway 4355.
  • Jiantao Jiao: Mondays, 4:30-5:30 pm in Gateway 2133.
  • Ryan Tibshirani: Tuesdays, 1-2 pm in Gateway 3355.
  • Bin Yu: Wednesdays, 9:30-11 am in Gateway 3355.
  • ML theory reading group: Thursdays, 1:30-3:30 pm in Calvin 116, with Peter Bartlett and Jason Lee.

Other news:

  • Statistics is hiring at the Assistant Professor level! Applications due November 8, 2026.
  • Statistics and EECS are hiring jointly at the Assistant Professor level! Applications due November 10, 2026.
  • Bin Yu is leading efforts to organize the Simons Institute Workshop on AI Risk, Evaluation and Governance (Spring, 2027).

Faculty

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Peter Bartlett
Professor of Graduate School, Stats and EECS
Google and Simons
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Ryan Giordano
Assistant Professor of Statistics
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Nika Haghtalab
Assistant Professor of EECS
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Jiantao Jiao
Assistant Professor of EECS and Stats
NVIDIA
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Michael Jordan
Professor of Graduate School, Stats and EECS
Inria Paris
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Jason Lee
Associate Professor of Stats and EECS
Simons
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Michael Mahoney
Adjunct Professor of Statistics
LBNL
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Song Mei
Assistant Professor of Stats and EECS
OpenAI
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Ben Recht
Professor of EECS
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Jacob Steinhardt
Associate Professor of Stats and EECS
Transluce
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Ryan Tibshirani
Professor and Chair of Statistics
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Jingfeng Wu
Assistant Professor of Statistics
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Bin Yu
Professor of Stats, EECS, and CCB
Simons
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Nikita Zhivotovskiy
Assistant Professor of Statistics

Postdocs

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Siavash Ameli
Postdoc, Stats
Michael Mahoney
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Philip Amortila
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
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Liviu Aolaritei
Postdoc, EECS
Michael Jordan
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Oleg Balabanov
Postdoc, Stats
Michael Mahoney
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Edoardo Calvello
Postdoc, LBNL
Michael Mahoney
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Gabriel Clara
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
Bin Yu
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Khashayar Gatmiry
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
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Jiawei Ge
Postdoc, Stats
Ryan Tibshirani
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Avrajit Ghosh
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
Bin Yu
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Gautam Goel
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
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Keegan Harris
Postdoc, EECS
Nika Haghtalab
Michael Jordan
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Kareem Hegazy
Postdoc, Stats / LBNL
Benjamin Erichson
Michael Mahoney
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Curtis McDonald
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
Bin Yu
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Maksim Melnichenko
Postdoc, Stats
Michael Mahoney
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Raphael Meyer
Postdoc, Stats
Michael Mahoney
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Maya Ramchandran
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
Bin Yu
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Dhruv Rohatgi
Postdoc, Stats
Jason Lee
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Bobby Shi
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
Bin Yu
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Katherine Tsai
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
Bin Yu
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Nuri Mert Vural
Postdoc, Simons
Peter Bartlett
Bin Yu
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Zhichao Wang
Postdoc, Stats
Michael Mahoney
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Ian Waudby-Smith
Postdoc, Stats
Michael Jordan
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Shenghao Yang
Postdoc, Stats
Michael Mahoney

Students

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Mark Bedaywi
PhD, EECS
Nika Haghtalab
Stuart Russell
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Erez Buchweitz
PhD, Stats
Ryan Tibshirani
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Yuhang Cai
PhD, Math
Peter Bartlett
Michael Lindsey
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Mert Cemri
PhD, EECS
A. Dimakis  K. Ramchandran
Ion Stoica
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Jessica Dai
PhD, EECS
Nika Haghtalab
Ben Recht
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Josh Davis
PhD, Stats
Nikita Zhivotovskiy
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Hengyu Fu
PhD, EECS
J. Jiao  J. Lee
Song Mei
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Yihan Geng
PhD, EECS
Venkatesan Guruswami
Jiantao Jiao
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Xinyan Hu
PhD, EECS
Michael Jordan
Jacob Steinhardt
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Hao Huang
PhD, EECS
Bin Yu
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Holly Jackson
PhD, EECS
Ben Recht
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Haozhe Jiang
PhD, EECS
N. Haghtalab  J. Jiao
Pieter Abbeel
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Jivat Kaur
PhD, CPH
Ahmed Alaa
Michael Jordan
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Juno Kim
PhD, EECS
Jason Lee
Song Mei
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Brian Lee
PhD, EECS
Nika Haghtalab
Michael Jordan
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Jacob Leung
Undergrad, BAIR
Jiantao Jiao
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Aaron J. Li
PhD, EECS
Ion Stoica
Bin Yu
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Kunjun Li
PhD, EECS
Jiantao Jiao
Kannan Ramchandran
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Boyi Lin
Visiting Student, EECS
Jiantao Jiao
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Louis McConnell
PhD, EECS
Bin Yu
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Drew Nguyen
PhD, Stats
Will Fithian
Michael Jordan
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Kazusato Oko
PhD, EECS
Song Mei
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Anthony Ozerov
PhD, Stats
Fernando Pérez
Bin Yu
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Jongho Park
PhD, EECS
Jason Lee
Song Mei
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Inioluwa Deborah Raji
PhD, EECS
Ben Recht
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Zach Rewolinski
PhD, Stats
Bin Yu
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João Vitor Romano
PhD, Stats
Ryan Tibshirani
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Nicolas Sanchez
PhD, Stats
Elizabeth Purdom
Bin Yu
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Ricardo J. Sandoval
PhD, EECS
Avi Feller
Michael Jordan
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Lucas Schwengber
PhD, Stats
Ryan Giordano
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Xueda Shen
PhD, Biostat
Ryan Tibshirani
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Rudransh Singh
Undergrad, EECS
Jiantao Jiao
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Annie Ulichney
PhD, Stats
Nika Haghtalab
Michael Jordan
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Francisca Vasconcelos
PhD, EECS
Michael Jordan
Umesh Vazirani
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Anqi Wang
PhD, Stats
Bin Yu
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Zixuan Wang
PhD, EECS
Jason Lee
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Xuelin Yang
PhD, Stats
Guido Imbens
Michael Jordan
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Yunzhen Yao
Visiting Student, EECS
Jiantao Jiao
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Zeyu Yun
PhD, EECS
Bruno Olshausen
Bin Yu
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Alex Zhao
PhD, CCB
Nilah Ioannidis
Bin Yu

Alumni

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Ishaq Aden-Ali
PhD EECS 2026
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Nivasini Ananthakrishnan
PhD EECS 2026
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Linda Cai
Postdoc 2026
Member of Technical Staff @ Axiom Bio
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David Deriso
PhD CS 2026
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Tiffany Ding
PhD Stats 2026
Member of Technical Staff @ Simile
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Isaac Gibbs
Postdoc 2026
Asst. Prof. of Statistics @ U Toronto
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Jeremy Goldwasser
PhD Stats 2026
Research Scientist @ BlackRock AI Lab
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Paula Gradu
PhD EECS 2026
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Tianyu Guo
PhD Stats 2026
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Jakob Heiss
Postdoc 2026
Asst. Prof. of Computational Statistics & Data Analysis @ U Vienna
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Baihe Huang
PhD EECS 2026
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Yaxuan Huang
PhD Stats 2026
@ Cubist
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Hyunsuk Kim
PhD Stats 2026
Quant Researcher @ Jump Trading
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Licong Lin
PhD Stats 2026
Asst. Prof. of Statistics & Data Science @ Cornell (2027)
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Robin Netzorg
PhD EECS 2026
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Ezinne Nwankwo
PhD EECS 2026
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Seunghoon Paik
PhD Stats 2026
@ Two Sigma
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Pu Ren
Postdoc 2026
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Jingfeng Wu
Postdoc 2026
Asst. Prof. of Statistics @ UC Berkeley
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Kunhe Yang
PhD EECS 2026
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Chengzhong Ye
PhD Stats 2026
Postdoc @ BCBI, CDSS
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Austin Zane
PhD Stats 2026
@ Google
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Ruiqi Zhang
PhD Stats 2026
Quant Researcher @ Citadel Securities
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Hanlin Zhu
PhD EECS 2026
Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI