Martin James Wainwright (born 1973)[1] is a statistician and the Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a position he has held since July 2022.
At MIT, Wainwright is also affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, where he is a principal investigator, and a member of the Statistics and Data Science Center.
[2][3] Before joining MIT in 2022, Wainwright was part of the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he held the Howard Friesen Chair at the time of his departure.
[5][6][7] In 2002, Wainwright completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervison of Alan S. Willsky and Tommi S. Jaakkola.
His dissertation, which he developed at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems,[2][6] was titled Stochastic processes on graphs with cycles: geometric and variational approaches.