Ioana A. Cosma

Curriculum Vitae

A complete version of my CV can be downloaded here.

Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, October 2005 - July 2009
Supersivor: Dr. Peter Clifford
Title: Dimension reduction of streaming data via random projections.
Online access available via this link.
Master's in Statistics, Dean's Honour List
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, September 2003 - June 2005
Supervisor: Dr. Masoud Asgharian
Title: Principle of detailed balance and simulated annealing.
B.Sc. with first class honours in Pure Mathematics, Minor in Philosophy
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, September 1998 - June 2003

Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, August 2009 - present.

Peter Clifford and Ioana A. Cosma (2012) A statistical analysis of probabilistic counting algorithms, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 39 (1), 1-14. (preprint available).
Masoud Asgharian, Ioana A. Cosma, and Vahid Partovi Nia (2011) On convergence assessment in Bayesian clustering (submitted).
Peter Clifford and Ioana A. Cosma (2010) A simple sketching algorithm for entropy estimation (in preparation, draft available).
Peter Clifford and Ioana A. Cosma (2008) Efficient l_{alpha} Distance Approximation for High Dimensional Data Using alpha-Stable Projection In Proceedings in Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT2008), Porto, Portugal (contributed paper, final version available).

Seminar, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, February 2012.
Seminar, RAND Corporation, February 2012.
Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, January 2012.
Seminar, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, January 2012.
Seminar, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, January 2012.
Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, January 2012.
Seminar, Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, November 2011.
Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, October 2011.
Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, September 2011.
9th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, and 2010 World meeting of the ISBA, Benidorm, Spain, June 2010. (poster)

College Research Associate, Jesus College, Cambridge, 2010-present.
P.E.O. Scholar Award, P.E.O. International, USA, 2008-2009.
Jesus College Graduate Scholarship, Jesus College, Oxford, 2007-2008.
Overseas Research Student Award, University of Oxford, 2006-2008.
Teaching Assistant Bursary, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 2005-2009.
Undergraduate Student Research Award, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, (NSERC), 2001-2003.
McConnell Entrance Scholarship, McGill University, 1998-2002.