Hello! I am currently a PhD Candidate in the the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the University of California, Santa Barbara, having first joined the department in Fall 2020. Prior to that, I earned my Bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Berkeley (also in Statistics; Class of 2020). My current research centers around the development of an Empirical Bayes estimation procedure for nonparametric regression problems with correlated errors, and intersects with: Gaussian Processes, Spectral Methods, and Asymptotics. Aside from academics (and a passion for Statistics Education), my interests include playing the piano, drinking tea, and talking about cats!
My primary research advisor is Dr. Andrew V. Carter. Fun fact: if you trace my mathematical genealogy back 5 generations, you arrive at Andrei Andreyevich Markov (and six generations leads you to Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev)!
The best way to reach me is at epmarzban@pstat.ucsb.edu.