Spring 2022 - STAT430
Unsupervised Learning

Staff and Contact Info
Instructor, TAs:
Professor: Dr. Victoria (Tori) Ellison
vellison@illinois.edu

I'm a Teaching Assistant Professor. I received my PhD in Operations Research from North Carolina State University in 2017. I have taught college courses in Statistics, Deterministic Modeling, Calculus, and Pre-Calculus. While pursuing my graduate degree I also worked in industry for six years as a data scientist, applying statistical and mathematical algorithms to applications in online advertisting, TV advertising, and narcotics detection. I'm currently conducting pedagogical research, focusing on introductory data science courses teaching methods. I also like hiking, snowboarding, and yoga.
TA: Abhishek Ojha
ojha4@illinois.edu

I am a third year PhD student in the department of statistics. I completed my BS-MS dual degree from IISER Pune, India with major in Mathematics. I am currently working on the problems related to Post Selection Inference.