Alumni Profiles

Miles Lopes

  • Program Years: 2010-2014
  • Academic Institution: University of California, Berkeley
  • Field of Study: Machine Learning
  • Academic Advisor: Peter Bickel
  • Practicum(s):
    Sandia National Laboratories, California (2012)
  • Degree(s):
    Ph.D. Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2015
    M.S. Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2014
    B.S. Mathematics and Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008

Current Status

  • Status: Assistant Professor, UC Davis Department of Statistics
  • Research Area: Machine Learning and High-Dimensional Statistics
  • Personal URL: http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~melopes/

Publications

"The Convergence Rate of Majority Vote under Exchangeability"
M. Lopes, Technical report 2013, http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0727

“Estimating Unknown Sparsity in Compressed Sensing”
M. Lopes, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2013.

“A More Powerful Two-Sample Test in High Dimensions using Random Projection.” M. Lopes, L. Jacob, M. Wainwright. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2011 (NIPS 24).

Awards

Graduate Honors:
Bay Area ASA Student Travel Award, 2013
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Laha award, 2012
DOE CSGF Fellowship, 2010
NSF GRFP Fellowship, 2010
NDSEG Fellowship, 2010 (declined)
UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship, 2009
UC Berkeley, William V. Power Award, 2009

Undergraduate Honors:
1. UCLA Dept. Mathematics Sherwood Prize, 2008
2. Summa Cum Laude Graduate of UCLA in mathematics and physics, 2008