Sumanta Basu

Assistant Professor
Statistics and Data Science, Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science /Computational Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Sumanta Basu
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Contact Information

1192 Comstock Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
p: (607) 255-9813

Sumanta Basu

Assistant Professor
Statistics and Data Science, Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science /Computational Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Expertise

High-dimensional time series; networks and graphical models; econometrics; interpretable machine learning; statistical methods in genomics and metabolomics

Current Research Interest

Spectral theory of high-dimensional time series; random forests and decision tree ensembles; quantitative methods for time-course omics data; quantitative methods for financial network modeling

Selected Publications

Basu, Sumanta, and George Michailidis. "Regularized Estimation in Sparse High-Dimensional Time Series Models." Annals of Statistics 43, no. 4 (2015): 1535–1567.

Basu, Sumanta, Karl Kumbier, James B. Brown, and Bin Yu. "Iterative Random Forests to Discover Predictive and Stable High-Order Interactions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 8 (2018): 1943–1948.

Cornell Research Website Article

Analyzing Data, Finding Hidden Structure