I’m a PhD student in the joint program between machine learning and statistics at CMU. I’m lucky to be advised by Aaditya Ramdas. Here is an entirely-unnecessary-yet-for-some-reason-expected CV. I’m a member of the StatML group.

You can reach me at benchugg \(\alpha\tau\) cmu.edu.

Research

These days I mostly think about problems in mathematical statistics and probability theory. Two areas of particular interest are concentration of measure and game-theoretic statistics (anytime-valid inference, e-values, hypothesis testing, and martingales).

Here are my papers and some informal research notes. I also maintain a second brain for statistics.

Other

Occasionally I write. You can subscribe to be notified of new essays.

After-hours, I co-host the increments podcast. We have a few [sic] drinks and yell about topics ranging from the problem of induction to the evolutionary origins of art. I also co-host do you even lit? where two unintelligible kiwis and I make our (haphazard and tangent-filled) way through the world of literary classics.