About me: I am an assistant professor at the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. I completed my PhD in Statistics at the University of Michigan working with Prof. Yuekai Sun and Prof. Moulinath Banerjee. Prior to my PhD, I completed my undergraduate and masters studies at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata with a focus on mathematics and statistics. 

Research interests: I am broadly interested in the statistical foundations of data science. Some of my recent interests are:

• Large Language Models: LLM routing [1], LLM alignment [1]

• Distribution shift & transfer learning [1, 2, 3, 4], Performative prediction [1, 2]

• Fairness & Interpretability in ML algorithms [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

• Missing data [1]

E-mail: smaity (at) uwaterloo (dot) ca