Persi Diaconis

Bio:
Persi Diaconis is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is working
on probability, combinatorics, and group theory with a focus on applications to statistics and scientific computing. A specialty is rates of convergence of Markov chains. He is interested in trying to adapt the many mathematical developments to say something useful to practitioners in large real-world simulations.