Siddhartha Chib

Siddhartha Chib
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Indian Institutes of Management
Delhi University
Known forFramework for understanding the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm and its extensions in high-dimensional settings
AwardsFellow of the American Statistical Association
Scientific career
FieldsEconometrics, statistics
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis
Thesis Some Contributions to Likelihood Based Prediction Methods  (1986)
Academic advisorsSreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka
Thomas F. Cooley
Websitesiddharthachib.org

Siddhartha Chib is an econometrician, statistician, and the Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. His work is primarily in Bayesian statistics, econometrics, and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. Chib's research spans a wide range of topics in Bayesian statistics, with influential contributions to statistical modeling, computational methods, and Bayesian model comparison techniques.