Will Fithian

I am a third-year PhD student in the Stanford Statistics Department, advised by Trevor Hastie.

I received my A.B. from Harvard University where I concentrated in Mathematics. My thesis adviser was Dennis Gaitsgory. In the Summer of 2012 I spent three months at Facebook on the data science team, where my mentor was Daniel Ting.

My favorite book is Elements of Statistical Learning and my favorite loss function is $beta'x - log(1+e^{beta'x})$

Contact

Department of Statistics
Sequoia Hall
390 Serra Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Office: Sequoia Hall #235
Email: wfithian@stanford.edu