Yves Atchade

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
Duan Family Faculty Fellow of Data Science
Boston University

Yves Atchade is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics with a secondary appointment in the Faculty of Computing and Data Science at Boston University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

His research interests center on Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods and their theoretical foundations, the statistical properties of Bayesian procedures in high dimensions, and the development of principled statistical and learning methods for improved environmental prediction.

Research Interests

• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — scalable samplers, convergence theory, adaptive methods
• High-dimensional Bayesian asymptotics and quasi-posterior distributions
• Statistical and learning methods for environmental science
• Stochastic optimization and statistical inverse problems

Editorial Service

• Harvard Data Science Review
• Bernoulli Journal
• Journal of the American Statistical Association — Theory and Methods
• Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Funding

Research supported by the National Science Foundation (DMS and MMS programs).