Tristan Luca Saidi

I am PhD student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University, fortunate to be advised by Professor Larry Wasserman. I currently work on the theory and application of optimal transport, and I have been extremely lucky to enjoy extensive collaboration with Professor Gonzalo Mena and Professor Florian Gunsilius. I also have a growing interest in semi-parametric statistical theory, for which I have been and continue to work with and learn from Professor Arun Kuchibhotla. Before my time at CMU, I completed my first year of graduate studies at Columbia University in the department of Computer Science, where I was able to work with Professor Andrew J. Blumberg. During this time, I worked on algorithms that use discrete graph curvature to improve geometric data analysis.