Abraham J. Wyner Faculty Profile

Abraham J. Wyner
Associate Professor of Statistics

PhD, Stanford University, 1993; BS, Yale University, 1988

Research Areas
Probabilistic modeling; information theory; entropy; data compression; estimation

Recent Consulting
Statistical consultant, Stanford Research Institute (S.R.I.), 1998-present, TiVoInc., 1998-present

Current Projects
The thrust of current research projects is the theoretical development of probabilistic models from information theory towards applications in statistics.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1998-present. Previous appointment: Stanford University. Visiting appointment: University of California at Berkeley

Other Positions
Consultant, Bell Laboratories, 1995-97

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Mathemtical Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellow, NSF, 1995-98

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2003-2007
Board member, Technical Advisory-TiVo, Inc., 1998-present

Representative Publications
(with P. Buhlmann)
"Variable Length Markov Chains." Annals of Statistics (forthcoming).

"More on Recurrence and Waiting Times." Annals of Applied Probability (forthcoming).

(with A.D. Wyner and J. Ziv)
"The Role of Pattern Matching in Information Theory." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (October 1998).