Ioana A. Cosma
Curriculum Vitae
A complete version of my CV can be downloaded here.
Education
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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.
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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.
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B.Sc. with first class honours in Pure Mathematics, Minor in Philosophy
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, September 1998 - June 2003
Professional experience
- Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, August 2009 - present.
Publications and working papers
- 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).
Recent seminars and presentations
- 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)
Honours, scholarships and awards
- 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.
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