#  Joseph K. Blitzstein 

Professor of the Practice in Statistics,

Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies

 

 

 



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 **Research Interests:**  
Inference for network data  
Foundational issues in Statistics and Data Science  
Statistics Education

- **Research Interests**

- Inference for network data

- Foundational issues in Statistics and Data Science

- Statistics Education
- **Education**

- Ph.D. in Mathematics, Stanford University, June 2006.

- M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University, June 2003.

- B.S. in Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, June 1999.

 **Experience**

- July 2011 -- now, Professor of the Practice in Statistics, Harvard University

- July 2006 -- June 2011, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Harvard University

- January 2000 -- March 2006, Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University

 **Sample Publications**

- Blitzstein, J. and Diaconis, P. (2006). [A Sequential Importance Sampling Algorithm for Generating Random Graphs with Prescribed Degrees](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~blitz/BlitzsteinDiaconisGraphAlgorithm.pdf), submitted.

 [**Conditioning - The Soul of Statistics**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzFf3r1yph8) - **presentation at "Harvard Thinks Big 4"**

 **[Personal Website](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~blitz/Site/Home.html)**

 **[Twitter](https://twitter.com/stat110)**



 

 

 





 

 

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