I am currently an Assistant Professor at Yale-NUS College and, by courtesy, at Department of Statistics and Data Science at National University of Singapore (NUS). I am also affiliated with the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (iORA). Prior to joining Yale-NUS in July 2021, I have spent three wonderful years at the School of Data Science (SDS) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and a marvelous year as a research fellow at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong with Prof. Kevin Yuen. I graduated from the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell University. My advisor is Prof. Pierre Patie. I am interested in probability theory, statistics, stochastic processes and their applications. My recent work is on the analysis of non-reversible Markov chains. Prior to Cornell, I received my undergraduate degree in Actuarial Science at The University of Hong Kong.
Recruitment
- I am looking for self-motivated and independent Ph.D. students. Interested students please send me your transcript and CV.
Contact
- Email: michael.choi@yale-nus.edu.sg
- Address: Elm RC1-01-01C (beside the Elm courtyard), 12 College Ave West, Singapore 138610
- Phone: +65-66013664
Research interests
- Markov chains, Markov processes: theory and applications
- Stochastic algorithms: Markov chain Monte Carlo, Metropolis-Hastings, simulated annealing, Langevin dynamics, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
- Landscape modification in statistical physics, applied probability, stochastic optimization, Bayesian statistics and information theory
Tweets
Selected talks and visits
- (Invited participation) IMS New Researchers Conference in Statistics and Probability, George Mason University, August 2022
- Workshop in honor of Prof. Zikun Wang: from birth-death processes, Brownian motion to superprocesses, Xiangtan, April 2022
- IFORS 2021, Seoul, August 2021
- (Plenary) Workshop on Non-reversible Markovian Monte Carlo, Lorentz Center, Leiden, August 2021
- Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, March 2021
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, January 2021
- Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, December 2020
- Algorithms seminar, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, October 2020
- Institute of Mathematical Stochastics, University of Gottingen, January 2020
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fujian Normal University, January 2020
- 15th Workshop on Markov Processes and Related Topics, Changchun, July 2019
- 2019 Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Evanston, Illinois, July 2019
- INFORMS APS, Brisbane, July 2019
- NCTS and Department of Mathematical Sciences, National Chengchi University, Taipei, June 2019
- Hong Kong Probability Seminar, March 2019
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, February 2019
- Toulouse School of Economics, December 2018
- Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, December 2018
- Workshop on Stein's method and related topics, University of Macau, December 2018
- School of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, September 2018
- IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, Singapore, June 2018
- Institute for Data and Decision Analytics (iDDA), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, January 2018