Lucas Janson
Assistant Professor of Statistics; Affiliate in Computer Science
Profile
Outside professional activities
Profile
Lucas Janson is an Associate Professor of Statistics and Affiliate in Computer Science at Harvard University, where he studies high-dimensional inference and statistical machine learning.
In addition to his methodological and theoretical work, he collaborates with domain experts to apply his work to scientific fields including genetics, political science, and climatology, and runs the Harvard Statistical Consulting Service where he supervises PhD students advising hundreds of researchers per year.
Contact
Email: ljanson@fas.harvard.edu
Additional Website: http://lucasjanson.fas.harvard.edu/
Expertise
Statistics
Computer science
Computer science
Outside professional activities
Outside Professional Activities
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Outside Professional Activities For Lucas Janson
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Broad Institute
Research or teaching appointment
Prealize Health
Inventorship/Authorship on Intellectual Property (license/royalties)
The Salata institute
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