Alex Braunstein's Webpage



Thanks for visiting my site. I graduated May 2009 and am working full time for Google.


I taught STAT 111 in Summer 2009.
The course homepage is here.


Alex Braunstein's Code Repository

My CV/resume

My Dissertation: Bayesian Statistical Model for HIV Evolution
My Final Defense Slides
My masters paper: American Option Approximations
Talk on Logistic Regression and GLMs

Alex Braunstein's Research Interests

1) Bioinformatics
2) Bayesian Modeling
3) Paleobiology

Alex Braunstein's Current Research Projects

1) Modeling HIV evolution as a result of anti-sense gene therapy
2) Gene finding in k-way alignments of malaria using an HMM and phylogenetic shadowing.
3) Comparing and improving various techniques for American Option Valuation

Publications:

1) Braunstein, A., Wei, Z., Jensen, S., and McAuliffe, J. A spatially varying two-sample recombinant coalescent, with applications to HIV escape response. NIPS 2008. paper poster

Working Papers:

1) Braunstein, A., Jensen, S., and McAuliffe, J. Bayesian Models for HIV evolution.
2) Nygaard, S., Braunstein, A., et al. Long and short term selective pressures on malaria parasite genomes. (submitted)
3) Braunstein, A., Wang, S. Confidence intervals for pulsed mass extinctions when recovery potentialis non-uniform.
4) Berger, J. Bradlow, E., and Braunstein, A. What's in a name? A Bayesian Analysis of Name Selection in the US from 1880-2006.
5) McShane, B., Braunstein, A., Piette, J., and Jensen, T. Which Metrics Matter: A Bayesian Variable Selection Approach with Application to Major League Baseball Hitting Data. (submitted)
6) Braunstein, A. Consistency and Pythagoras. (submitted)
7) Piette, J., McShane, B., Braunstein, A., and Jensen, T. Bayesian Random Effects Model and Variable Seletion for Evaluating Randomness in Pitching Measures.

Below is a list of courses I have completed during my Ph D program:
STAT 999 - Non-parametric Bayesian Models - Fall 2008
STAT 999 - Advanced MCMC Methodology - Spring 2008
STAT 991 - Seminar in Advanced Application of Statistics - Gaussian Process Models - Spring 2008
CIS 700 - Monte Carlo Methods and Nonparametric Bayesian Models - Spring 2008
STAT 921 - Experimental Design and Observational Studies - Fall 2007
MKTG 771 - Models for Marketing Strategy - Fall 2007
OPIM 999 - Techniques for American Option Valuation - Fall 2007
STAT 999 - Algorithms for Phylogenetic Inference - Fall 2007
STAT 956 - Financial Timeseries and Computational Statistics - Spring 2007
CRIM 650 - Inductive Statistical Methods - Spring 2007
OPIM 653 - Mathematical Modeling and its Application to Finance - Spring 2007
STAT 955 - Stochastic Calculus - Fall 2006
STAT 552 - Asymptotics - Fall 2006
STAT 999 - Statistical Methods for Genome Evolution - Fall 2006
STAT 531/Math 547 - Stochastic Processes - Spring 2006
STAT 541 - Statistical Methods - Spring 2006
STAT 551 - Linear Models - Spring 2006 STAT 530/Math 546 - Probability - Fall 2005
STAT 540 - Statistical Methods and Computation - Fall 2005
STAT 550 - Mathematical Statistics - Fall 2005

About Alex Braunstein

I was an undergraduate at Swarthmore College(2002-2005), where I majored in Applied Mathematics.
I have completed the third year of my Ph D program at Wharton, passed my qualifying exams, and received my MA.
I am doing research with Shane Jensen and Jon McAuliffe. During the academic year, I
live in Harrison College House, where I am a GA (like an RA but a graduate student). I enjoy
biking, cooking, baking, playing video games, jiu jitsu, and watching the Phillies.

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