Machine learning research in stats/biostats

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Hey everyone,

I'm looking into statistics and biostatistics programs to apply to in the fall, and I'm trying to find programs that have faculty doing research in machine learning/statistical learning/ related fields.

So far for statistics it seems like the following schools have a decent amount of faculty doing research in ml: Stanford (Hastie, Tibshirani, etc.), Berkeley (Bartlett, Bickel, Jordan, Wainwright, Yu, etc.), Chicago (http://ml.cs.uchicago.edu/), Washington (http://www.stat.washington.edu/graduate/programs/machinelearning/), CMU (http://statml.cs.cmu.edu/), Duke (http://machinelearning.duke.edu/), Penn (http://priml.upenn.edu/People/People), Wisconsin (https://machinelearning.wisc.edu/), Michigan (Scott, Ji Zhu, Tewari, Long Nguyen, etc.), Columbia (http://www.stat.columbia.edu/ml.html), Cornell (Bien, Hooker, etc.), Purdue (https://learning.cs.purdue.edu/sml/start), Ohio State (http://www.stat.osu.edu/~dmsl/index.html).

However for biostatistics, it seems that only Washington (http://depts.washington.edu/slablab/) and Berkeley (because their biostats group is closely tied to their stats department) have faculty doing ml research.

Have I missed any important schools? Are there really just not a lot of people doing ml research in biostatistics departments?

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If you are interested in "machine learning", then you don't need to limit yourself to statistics or biostatistics departments. You can apply to CS or EE programs too. For example, UT-Austin (not on your list) has a strong machine learning program in both CS (applied flavor) and EE (theory flavor). Also, I would actually apply to TTIC instead of UChicago if you are more into ML as opposed to traditional statistical estimation. UMass also has a very strong ML program (stats and math in same dept + CS is strong).

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@compscian Thanks for the suggestions! The thing is I'm interested in stats/biostats overall, and machine learning/statistical learning is an area of research I think I'd like within stats/biostats, so I'm trying to see which programs are stronger.

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16 hours ago, marmle said:

@compscian Thanks for the suggestions! The thing is I'm interested in stats/biostats overall, and machine learning/statistical learning is an area of research I think I'd like within stats/biostats, so I'm trying to see which programs are stronger.

In that case, I think you have covered nearly all the departments/universities Also, MIT and Princeton don't have a "statistics" department yet, but they have an Operations Research program which is basically statistics with an increased emphasis on optimization. They might interest you too. Best wishes!