I am an assistant professor at the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. I completed my PhD in Statistics at the University of Michigan working with Prof. Yuekai Sun and Prof. Moulinath Banerjee. Prior to my PhD, I completed my undergraduate and masters studies at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata with a focus on mathematics and statistics
Research interests: I am broadly interested in the statistical foundations of data science. My research primarily focuses on transfer learning and algorithmic fairness. Some of my recent interests are
- Distribution Shift
- Learning from pre-trained models
- LLM alignment, routing
E-mail: smaity (at) uwaterloo (dot) ca
