Sameer Deshpande
Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolSameer Deshpande is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a decade of experience at the intersection of Bayesian methodology and applied inference. He develops and applies Bayesian additive regression trees, hierarchical modeling, and variable selection techniques for causal inference problems in sports and public health. Before joining Wisconsin he was a postdoctoral associate at MIT working with Tamara Broderick, and he earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from Wharton under Ed George and Veronika Rockova. His work blends rigorous theory with practical applications, often translating complex Bayesian models into tools for real-world decision-making. Outside academia he channels analytical creativity into cooking, cocktail crafting, and rooting for Dallas sports teams.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTexas Academy of Mathematics and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at The Wharton School
Github Skills (8)
bart9
spike5
regression5
machine-learning3
sampler2
bayesian2
statistics2
bayesian-inference1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skdeshpande91/skdeshpande91.github.io
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:270 pushes, 6 branches, 1 issue in 5 years 4 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
skdeshpande91/VCBART
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
R implementation of VCBART
Contributions:49 commits, 12 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 11 months
bart
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