Collaboration and consulting
- Establishing expertise on statistics and machine learning topics, generating new ideas on these topics to advance these fields of research, investigating the ideas I have generated (from the approach to the analysis), writing manuscripts to communicate my findings with my peers and with society more generally, and establishing credibility of my work by carrying it through to formal publication in peer-reviewed journals, books, etc.
- Engaging with the professional research community by attending and presenting my work at national and international conferences, academic departments, etc. Collaborating with other academics working on related research problems.
- Advising PhD students at NC State University on dissertation research projects, serving on PhD dissertation committees, and mentoring undergraduate research projects for students enrolled at NC State University.
- Teaching and designing undergraduate and graduate courses at NC State University. Contributing service to the administrative aspects of the day-to-day of an academic department, including many hours reading/writing emails both internally and externally related to my job as an Associate Professor at NC State University.
I am an active researcher in many realms of statistics and machine learning, with reasonably broad interests. Beyond my formal job responsibilities, I do have the bandwidth to collaborate on research projects, mentor students not at NC State University, etc., but I can only justify my time spent on extracurricular activities if it is paid consulting work. Please reach out to me, if interested.
Depending on the scope of the work, collaboration/mentorship on a research project costs 20,000–30,000 USD in my consulting fees (assuming approximately 10 hours per week effort, it would be around 6-8 months to initial journal submission, maybe 3-4 months if we were targeting an ML conference venue).
It is easy to identify research-level problems in the ML/stats realm at companies that deal with large amounts of data or quantification of uncertainty. Collaboration with academics is pretty typical. It facilitates infusing new ideas into companies, development of innovative/state-of-the-art solutions for industry problems, motivates more relevant problems for academic communities to align with, etc. Sometimes companies want accompanying publications from the collaborations to establish credibility and to get feedback from other experts in the world, in a formal peer-review format.
As a tenured Associate Professor at NC State University, my formal job responsibilities include: