Counting Crayons - with Po-Ling Loh

About this episode

Po-Ling Loh discusses her journey in theoretical statistics and compares academic life in the US and UK.

Po-Ling Loh is an American theoretical statistician based at the University of Cambridge. She discusses her childhood, choosing a university, and her path to higher dimensional statistics and differential privacy. She also compares life as an academic in the US and UK. This episode was made possible by the Leverhulme Trust, a UK-based organisation which funds ambitious blue skies research across various disciplines - https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/ Professor Loh was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. More about her prize here - https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/philip-leverhulme-prize-winners-2023 Professor Loh’s website - https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~pll28/

People in this episode

Host: Brady Haran

Guest: Po-Ling Loh

Topics covered

• theoretical statistics
• higher dimensional statistics
• differential privacy
• academic life
• US vs UK education

Keywords

• theoretical statistician
• differential privacy
• higher dimensional statistics
• academic career
• Leverhulme Trust

Sponsors

Leverhulme Trust

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Cambridge, Philip Leverhulme Prize, dpmms.cam.ac.uk

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