Vinayak A P Rao
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (courtesy)
Vinayak Rao is an Assistant Professor at the department of Statistics at Purdue University. He completed his PhD at the Gatsby Unit at University College London. He then spent two years as a postdoc at the department of Statistical Science at Duke University before joining Purdue in 2014. Vinayak's research interests lie in the areas of probabilistic machine learning, Bayesian statistics and modeling and computation for stochastic processes.
Joined department: Spring 2019
Education
PhD, University College London, Machine Learning (2012)
Vinayak Rao is an Assistant Professor at the department of Statistics at Purdue University. He completed his PhD at the Gatsby Unit at University College London. He then spent two years as a postdoc at the department of Statistical Science at Duke University before joining Purdue in 2014. Vinayak's research interests lie in the areas of probabilistic machine learning, Bayesian statistics and modeling and computation for stochastic processes.