Claire Donnat
Assistant Professor at University of Chicago
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolClaire Donnat is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago with nine years of experience at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and network science, focusing on graph methods for biomedical applications. Trained at École Polytechnique and Stanford (Ph.D. in Statistics), she blends rigorous theory with practical algorithm development for large-scale and sparse problems. Her background includes impactful research and internships in industry labs (Facebook Core Data Science, Hudson River Trading, G-Research) where she applied deep learning and graph-based techniques to real-world time series, market, and user-network problems. She has a strong teaching and mentorship record from Stanford, recognized with departmental and university awards for excellence as a TA. Rare among academics, her profile combines military-style leadership training and hands-on systems work from an early EDF infrastructure internship, reflecting a pragmatic, disciplined approach to complex data challenges. Based in Palo Alto, she leverages both academic depth and industry experience to translate network methods into actionable biomedical insights.
9 years of coding experience
Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Sainte GenevièveBachelor’s Degree, Engineering, Physics and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering, Physics and Applied Mathematics at Ecole polytechniqueDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at Stanford University
French, Russian, English
Github Skills (24)
manifold9
statistics8
geometry8
gpu-programming7
pubmed7
arxiv6
deep-learning6
ats6
machine-learning6
quarto5
scrape5
reticulate4
python3
react3
signal-processing3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
donnate/gnumap
Aug 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:10 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
snap-stanford/graphwave
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 6 months
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