Sameer Deshpande
Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolSameer Deshpande is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, focusing on Bayesian additive regression trees (BART), Bayesian hierarchical modeling and variable selection, and causal inference with applications in sports analytics and public health. He combines rigorous Bayesian techniques with real-world data to yield actionable insights across domains. Before joining UW–Madison in 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT where he worked with Tamara Broderick, and he earned his PhD in Statistics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, under Ed George and Veronika Rockova, after completing a BS in Mathematics at MIT. Based in Madison, he collaborates across academia and industry to advance scalable Bayesian methods and causal inference. Outside of statistics, he enjoys cooking, making cocktails, and cheering for Dallas-based sports teams.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTexas Academy of Mathematics and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at The Wharton School
Github Skills (8)
bart9
spike5
regression5
machine-learning3
sampler2
bayesian2
statistics2
bayesian-inference1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skdeshpande91/skdeshpande91.github.io
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:270 pushes, 6 branches, 1 issue in 5 years 4 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
skdeshpande91/VCBART
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
R implementation of VCBART
Contributions:49 commits, 12 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 11 months
bart
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