Cosma Shalizi

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Cosma Rohilla Shalizi (born February 28, 1974) is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

1 Background
2 Achievements
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Background

Born in Boston, Shalizi lived there for the first two years of his life before moving to Bethesda, Maryland where he grew up.

He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a doctorate in physics in May 2001. From 1998 to 2002, he worked at the Santa Fe Institute, in the Evolving Cellular Automata Project and the Computation, Dynamics and Inference group. Afterwards, from 2002 to 2005, he worked at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

In August 2006, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.^[1].

[edit] Achievements

Shalizi is co-author of the CSSR algorithm, which exploits entropy properties to efficiently extract Markov Models from time-series data without a generative model.

Cosma was recently ranked by Nature as being one of the top 50 science bloggers, with his blog Three-Toed Sloth.