#  Joseph K. Blitzstein 

Professor of the Practice in Statistics,

Senior Director of Education

Director of Undergraduate Studies

 

 

 



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 email <blitz@fas.harvard.edu> 

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**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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