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Emmanuel Abbe

 

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Associate Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Electrical Engineering 
Associated Faculty in Mathematics 
Princeton University
On leave at EPFL

Offices: Fine Hall 212 and Equad B322, Princeton Univeristy.  Email: eabbe@princeton.edu

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Research Interests: Information theory, statistics, machine learning, algorithms. 

Teaching: In the spring I teach a class on random graphs and networks. The class provides an introduction to the mathematical theory of random graphs and to various statistisal models that play a key role in the analysis of real networks and data sets. It starts with the Erdös-Rényi model, threshold phenomena, Boolean Fourier analysis, subgraph containtment, connectivity, giant, chromatic number and evolves towards more realistic models capturing clustering and power-law phenomenona. Emphasis will be put on the stochastic block model, spectral graph theory, cascade models and inference of combinatorial structures.   

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Book chapters/monographs

Tutorials:

  • E. Abbe, M. Wainwright, Information Theory and Machine Learning, ISIT 2015.
  • E. Abbe, Comunity detection and graphical inference, Allerton, 2016.
  • E. Abbe, Clustering, MSR-UW Summer Research Institute, 2015.
  • E. Abbe, Polar codes, ISWCS 2011.