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Reese Pathak

Visiting Assistant Professor

School of Operations Research and Information Engineering

Reese Pathak
Reese Pathak

Biography

Reese Pathak is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell University. He has been an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow (MSPRF) at UC Berkeley, Department of Statistics, with supervising scientist Nikita Zhivotovskiy. He obtained his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley in 2025, advised by Michael I. Jordan and Martin J. Wainwright. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Stanford University in 2019.

Research Interests

High-dimensional phenomena in statistics, probability, and geometry.

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  • IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award 2026
  • NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2025

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 2025
  • B.S., Stanford University 2019