I’m a PhD student in machine learning and statistics at CMU. I’m advised by Aaditya Ramdas and a member of the StatML group.

Before CMU I was doing various things at Oxford, Stanford, and UBC. Here is an entirely-unnecessary-yet-for-some-reason-expected CV. 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.

Other

I write at Steps to Phaeacia. Sometimes I also talk, and sometimes I talk in public about applied philosophy and other topics on the Increments podcast. 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.