Piotr Zwiernik

Associate Professor
Ontario Power Building, 700 University Ave., Room: 9133
piotr.zwiernik[at]utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Statistical Computing
  • Theoretical Statistics

Areas of Interest

  • High-dimensional Statistics
  • Mathematical Statistics
  • Convex Analysis
  • Multilinear Algebra

Biography

Piotr did his PhD in Statistics in 2011 at University of Warwick. He held research positions at Mittag Leffler Institute in Stockholm, IPAM in Los Angeles, TU Eindhoven, UC Berkeley, and the University of Genoa. In 2016-2021 he was an Assistant Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. His research interests focus on covariance matrix estimation, graphical models,  high dimensional statistics, and elegant mathematical statistics. He is an associate editor of Biometrika, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, and Algebraic Statistics.

Administrative Service

Associate Chair, Research