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Dr Omar Hagrass
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Statistics

Biographical Sketch

I am a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. I received my Ph.D. in Statistics from Penn State University, where I was advised by Dr. Bharath K. Sriperumbudur and co-advised by Dr. Bing Li. I then spent two years as a DataX Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) at Princeton University.

Research Interests

  • Non-parametric statistics
  • Reproducing kernel spaces in probability and statistics
  • Statistical learning theory
  • Stein's Method
  • Decoding strategies in large language models