James Leiner

I am a third year Ph.D student in the Statistics and Data Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University working with Aaditya Ramdas on problems in selective inference and multiple testing.

Education

  • Ph.D in Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2026 (expected)
  • M.S. in Statistics, University of Chicago, 2021
  • B.A. in Mathematics and Economics, University of Chicago, 2013

Preprints

  • Scalable causal structure learning via amortized conditional independence testing (with Brian Manzo, Aaditya Ramdas, and Wesley Tansey) (arxiv) (code)

Publications

  • Graph fission and cross-validation (with Aaditya Ramdas) (arxiv)
    • Accepted at AISTATS, 2024.
  • Data fission: splitting a single data point (with Boyan Duan, Larry Wasserman, and Aaditya Ramdas) (paper) (arxiv) (poster) (slides) (talk) (code)
    • Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2023.