John Lafferty
John C. Malone Professor of Statistics & Data Science and Computer Science
Office Address:
24 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208290
New Haven, CT
06520
Phone: (203) 432-5216
Email: john.lafferty@yale.edu
Degrees:
- Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests:
My research is in statistical machine learning, with a focus on computational and statistical aspects of nonparametric methods, high-dimensional data, graphical models, and document and text analysis.
Selected Publications:
- Selective inference for group-sparse linear models, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29, 2016. Fan Yang, Rina Foygel Barber, Prateek Jain, and John Lafferty, arxiv:1607.08211
- Local minimax complexity of stochastic convex optimization, Yuancheng Zhu, Sabyasachi Chatterjee, John Duchi and John Lafferty. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29, 2016. arxiv:1605.07596
- Convergence analysis for rectangular matrix completion using Burer-Monteiro factorization and gradient descent. Qinqing Zheng and John Lafferty arxiv:1605.07051
- Denoising flows on trees. Sabyasachi Chatterjee and John Lafferty arxiv:1602.08048