Dean Foster
Marie and Joseph Melone Professor Emeritus of Statistics at The Wharton School
Biography
The Wharton School
Dean P. Foster received the B.S. degree in biochemistry from the University of Maryland in 1980, the M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland, the M.A. degree in computer science from Rutgers University, and the Ph.D. degree in statistics from the University of Maryland.
He joined The University of Chicago in 1988 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, where he is currently the Marie and Joseph Melone Professor of Wharton School (Emeritus). Since 2015, he has been working for Amazon Inc., New York City, NY, USA. His current research interests include machine learning, stepwise regression, and reinforcement learning.
Education
- PhD, University of Maryland, 1988
- MSc, Rutgers University, 1984
- MA, University of Maryland, 1982
- BSc, University of Maryland, 1980
Companies
- Senior Principal Research Scientist Amazon (2015)
- Marie and Joseph Melone Professor of Statistics at The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania (1992)
- Principal Research Scientist Yahoo labs (2014 — 2015)
- professor of statistics University of Chicago Booth School of Business (1988 — 1992)
Skills
- Teaching
- Matlab
- R
Other
LaTeX, Research, Mathematical Modeling, Algorithms, Data Analysis, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Statistics
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