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.

Contact

• Email: michael.choi@yale-nus.edu.sg
• Address: Elm RC2-M-05, 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
• Statistical physics, applied probability, stochastic optimization, information theory

Selected talks and visits

• IFORS 2021, Seoul, August 2021
• 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