Damek Davis

Damek Davis
  • Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science

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  • office Address:

    319 Academic Research Building
    265 South 37th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Past Courses

  • STAT4830 - Optimization for Data Sci & ML

    Optimization is the modeling language in which modern data science, machine learning, and sequential decision-making problems are formulated and solved numerically. This course will teach students how to formulate these problems mathematically, choose appropriate algorithms to solve them, and implement and tune the algorithms in the software PyTorch. PyTorch is a freely available machine learning library is recognized as one of the two most popular machine learning libraries alongside TensorFlow. By the end of the course, students will become an intelligent consumer of numerical methods and software for solving modern optimization problems.

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Xingyuang Lu, Minh Pham, Elisa Negrini, Damek Davis, Stanley Osher, Jianwei Miao (2024), Computational Microscopy beyond Perfect Lenses, Physical Review E, 110 (5).
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IPOs and Their Human Cost: What Employees Should Know

Visiting associate professor of management at Wharton explores how going public impacts company strategy and the employees.Read More

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