Academic Experience
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2024-2027- Department of Biomedical Data Science
- Advised by Barbara Engelhardt
- Warren Alpert Fellowship in AI and Computational Biology
- Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
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PhD, Duke University, 2018-2024- Department of Statistical Science
- Advised by David Dunson
- Dissertation: Graphical and Isoperimetric Perspectives on Sampling and Regularization
- Certificate in College Teaching
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MS, University of Chicago, 2017-2018- Department of Computer Science
- Research with Veronika Ročková at the Booth School of Business
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MS, Yale University, 2016-2017- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Research with John Carlson at Yale MCDB
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BS, Johns Hopkins University, 2012-2016- General and Departmental Honors
- Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, as well as Neuroscience
- Minor: Computational Medicine
- Research at the JHU School of Medicine with Alex Kolodkin
- Research at the Center for Imaging Science with Michael I. Miller and Tilak Ratnanather
Industry Experience
Machine Learning Engineer, Instacart
- June - August 2024
- ETA Prediction
Research Scientist, Pinterest Labs
- May - July 2022
- Improved Graph Embeddings for Ads Recommendation
Research Scientist, Meta (Ads Ranking)
- July - September 2021
- Deep Learning for Ads Ranking
Research Scientist, Apple AIML (Siri Natural Language)
- April - June 2021
- Transformers for Language Understanding in Siri
Research Scientist, Amazon Science (Ads Measurement)
- May - August 2020
- Statistical/Causal Methods for Measuring Ads Performance
Data Scientist, Google (Search Team)
- May - August 2019
- Probabilistic Modeling for Google Search Retention
Financial Engineer, NextCapital (Acquired by Goldman Sachs)
- June - August 2018
- Bayesian Portfolio Modeling and Optimization
Contact
Email: edrictam@stanford.edu
Last updated: 2025-11-20