Chris Volinsky   Director Statistics Research Department AT&T Labs-Research

Hi! I am the Director of the Statistics Research Department at AT&T Research. Our department has 13 members working on a variety of statistical research topics. Check out our department web page.

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I am a member of the BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos team that has qualified to win the Netflix $1 Million Netflix Prize.
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2009 Activities:

• Managing Data Risk: Acquisition, Processing, Retention and Governance. April, 2009
• 5th Symposium on Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research. Pittsburgh, PA. May 30, 2009.
• Explorations in Statistics Workship. Berkeley, CA. June, 2009.
• Joint Statistical Meetings. Washington, DC. August, 2009.
• 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. New York. October, 2009.

My Research

My research in the field of statistics and data mining focuses on data mining and analysis of massive data. Some specific topics I am interested in include:

• Recommender Systems
• Social Networks and Network Graph Models
• Fraud and Anomaly Detection
• Statistical computation and visualization
• Bayesian Model Averaging
• Statistical applications to baseball, sabermetrics

Full Publications List

Here is a CV (last updated 2008-12-15)

Personal Info and Miscellanea

• I'm kind of a baseball nut - grew up reading Bill James' Baseball Abstracts and poring over the Sunday newspaper lists of statstics. The best site for commentary and analysis is Baseball Prospectus, for stats is baseball-reference.com.
• I like beer.
• Internet radio is far superior to the commercial nonsense on the radio these days. My favorite streams: KEXP in Seattle (independent music);  Radio Paradise, Creamy Radio, and RadioIO Eclectic, all esoteric mixes of hits and deep cuts; Dashnine Radio (indi garage rock); monkeyradio ,  SomaFM's Groove Salad, and JazzMusique, which are cool, groovy, jazzy, downtempo mixes .
• Do you live in New York and need a massage?  Check out my brother Bob, a licensed massaged therapist who also does shiatsu, reiki, aromatherapy and magnet therapy.
• Random Collection of interesting web pages the BabyName Wizard the Seattle alternative paper The Stranger (home of Savage Love) the truth about Urban Legends the best info source on the web, Wikipedia . and its evil twin, the Uncyclopedia

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