Varun Jog

About Me

I am Professor of Information Theory and Statistics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) at the University of Cambridge. My research interests lie in the areas of information theory, machine learning, and statistics.

Contact

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Third person biography

Varun Jog is Professor of Information Theory and Statistics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at UW-Madison (2016-2020) and at Cambridge (2021-2024). He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from UC Berkeley in 2015. His research interests are in information theory, statistics, and theoretical machine learning. He is a recipient of the NSF-CAREER Award (2020), the R. Narasimhan Memorial Lecture Award (2020), the Eli Jury Award from the EECS Department at UC Berkeley (2015), and the Jack Keil Wolf student paper award at ISIT 2015.

Information Theory Seminar

I co-organize the Information Theory Seminar along with Ramji Venkataramanan. Please contact Ramji or me if you would like to speak, have speaker suggestions, or have any other questions.