Addison Hu

Publications

• Addison Hu, Mikael Kuusela, Ann Lee, Donata Giglio, and Kimberly Wood. Spatio-temporal methods for estimating subsurface ocean thermal response to tropical cyclones. Submitted, 2020.

• Addison Hu and Sahand Negahban. Minimax Estimation of Bandable Precision Matrices. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017.

Awards

• NSF GRFP (Mathematical Statistics): 2020 - 2023

Projects

COVIDcast

• Since March 2020, I have temporarily joined Delphi to aid in COVID-19 forecasting.
• In early August, we began releasing State- and County-level forecasts for incident deaths and cases, respectively. See them here.

newton-sketch

• Implementation of Newton Sketch: A Linear-time Optimization Algorithm with Linear-Quadratic Convergence in NumPy and Spark.

Professional Experience

Data Scientist, Facebook Seattle | July 2017 - August 2018

• Worked on Search Core Relevance.

Miscellanea

• notes from Statistics 611 (Statistical Decision Theory)
• notes from Math 300 (Topics in Analysis)
• notes from Statistics 262 (Computational Tools for Data Science)