James G Scott

Professor, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Red McCombs School of Business
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, College of Natural Sciences
Phone: +1 512 471 5905
Email: james.scott@mccombs.utexas.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, College of Natural Sciences
Phone: +1 512 471 5905
Email: james.scott@mccombs.utexas.edu
I am a statistician and data scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. My research interests are mainly in statistical computation and Bayesian inference. Ive done recent work on nonparametric empirical-Bayes methods, data-augmentation schemes for Bayesian computation, scalable algorithms, multiple testing and high-dimensional screening problems, prior choice in hierarchical models, and Bayesian methods in machine learning