👋🏼 Hello, I'm Kentaro Hoffman
**currently on the Job Market, 2025**
Hello! My name is Kentaro Hoffman (feel free to pronounce this in whatever way you like! I have a list of unique pronunciations of my name.
As of 2024, it is about 10 long). I am a Postdoc student at the Department of Statistics, University of Washington,
under Professor Tyler McCormick. I am also an affiliate Postdoctoral Fellow at the
( eScience Institute) and the ( Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences).
I am currently interesting in how best us statisticians can incorporate our methods in a world where increasing amounts of data is becoming blackbox/AI-generated.
To this end, I am very excited about two paradigms. Inference on Predicted Data and Rashomon Sets .
I am currently working on applying these two paradigms to help aid scientific development in a range of fields from sociology, global health, and biostatics.
🎓 Education
2023 - PhD, University of North Carolina, Statistics
2022 - MA, University of North Carolina, Statistics
2017 - MA, Rice University, Mathematics and Statistics
🔬 Experience
2023-present Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
2023-present Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle
2021-Summer - Data Science Intern, Adobe, Lehi, Utah (Remote COVID)
📰 News
12 Dec 2024 - 🎙 Presented at the NeurIPS Workshop on Bayesian Decision Making and Uncertainity
[Poster]:
2 Dec 2024 - 👨💻 The first software package for multi-method IPD, is released on [
Github] and [
CRAN]:
18 Oct 2024 - 📜 Workshop Paper
Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design of Streaming Data Incorporating Machine Learning Generated Synthetic Data was accpted at the 2025 NeurIPS Conference on Bayesian Decision Making and Uncertainty
[Paper]:
18 Oct 2024 - 📜 Workshop Paper
Using Rashomon Sets for Robust Active Learning was accpted at the 2025 NeurIPS Conference on Bayesian Decision Making and Uncertainty
[Paper] [Poster]:
15 Sept 2024 - 🇪🇸 Our work on Age and Cause Disaggregation for 2000-Present Verbal Autopsy Coded Cause of Death was presented in Barecelona, Spain at the Annual CA-CODE Seminar!:
10 Jul 2024 - 📜 Paper about post-prediction inference for cause of death estimation is accepted to COLM 2024! [
Paper]:
11 May 2024 - 🎙 Presented Some models are useful, but for how long? at Statistics in the Age of AI
[Poster]:
27 Sep 2023 - 🎒 Entering Year 1 of my Postdoc at UW!: