Martin Wainwright (statistician)

Martin Wainwright
Martin Wainwright
Born	1973 (age 52–53)
Alma mater	University of Waterloo (B.Math); Harvard University (M.S.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.);
Awards	Sloan Research Fellowship (2005); National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006); COPSS Presidents' Award (2014); Guggenheim Fellowship (2024);
	Scientific career
Fields	Statistics, machine learning
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Thesis	Stochastic processes on graphs with cycles: geometric and variational approaches (2002)
Doctoral advisor	Alan S. Willsky; Tommi S. Jaakkola;
Other academic advisors	Michael I. Jordan
Website	wainwrigwork.github.io

Martin James Wainwright (born 1973) is a statistician and the Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a position he has held since July 2022. At MIT, Wainwright is also affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, where he is a principal investigator, and a member of the Statistics and Data Science Center.

Before joining MIT in 2022, Wainwright was part of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he held the Howard Friesen Chair at the time of his departure.