IDSS conversations: Guy Bresler

Guy Bresler joined the MIT faculty in September 2015 as the Bonnie and Marty (1964) Tenenbaum Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He also joined the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) -- which addresses complex societal challenges by advancing education and research at the intersection of statistics, data science, information and decision systems, and social sciences -- as a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Bresler's research investigates the relationship between combinatorial structure and computational tractability of high-dimensional inference in graphical models and other statistical models. His current work focuses on learning graphical models from data, and explores how both data and computation requirements can be reduced if the model is subsequently used for a specific inference task. Bresler is also interested in applications of these methods, especially to recommendation systems and computational biology.