Biography

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering at Princeton University. Previously, I was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. I received my PhD in Statistics and Data Science from Yale University in 2018, where I was fortunate to have been mentored by Andrew Barron. From 2017 to 2018, I was a visiting graduate student in the statistics department at Wharton.

My research is partially supported by NSF DMS-2054808 (PI) and TRIPODS DATA-INSPIRE Institute CCF-1934924 (Senior Personnel). Thank you, NSF!

I am a participating faculty at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) at Princeton and senior personnel on TRIPODS DATA-INSPIRE Institute at Rutgers.

My spouse is an assistant professor of marketing at Yale University.

If you are a PhD student at Princeton and are interested in talking about research, please email me. Due to the large number of outside requests, I cannot respond to all emails.

CV

My curriculum vitae is available here (January 2022).

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in statistics and machine learning, particularly for large scale problems.

• decision tree learning (e.g., random forests, CART, C4.5)
• neural networks (approximation and statistical properties)
• asymptotic behavior of convex programs (e.g., LASSO, SLOPE)

Students

• Peter Tian (Princeton)
• Cheng Gao (Princeton, co-advised with Jianqing Fan)

Contact

Email: jason [dot] klusowski [at] princeton [dot] edu
Phone: (609) 258-5305
Office: 327 Sherrerd Hall, Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08544