I am a Professor in the Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University and a Distinguished Engineer at LinkedIn working on Responsible AI. I was born and brought up in Kerala, India.
I obtained my Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai. I went to graduate school at the Department of Statistical Science, Duke University and obtained my Ph.D. in statistics in 2008. After Duke, I was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM), University of Warwick, UK, during 2008-10. I have been a faculty at Harvard University since 2010.
I was awarded the Young Statistical Scientist Award in Statistical Theory in 2018 by the International Indian Statistical Association and was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2021.
I served as an associate editor for JASA and JRSS Series B. Currently, I am serving on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science and Harvard Data Science Review.
I have worked in a wide range of industries. I was an Amazon Scholar from May 2021-June 2023.
Address: 607, Science Center, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138. Pillai(at)fas.harvard.edu