Sebastian Roch - Sebastien Roch

Employment

Current	Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (2009-) Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Other affiliations: UCLA Interdepartmental Program in Bioinformatics, UCLA EcoEvo Theory Group
2008-2009	Postdoctoral Researcher Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA
2007-2008	Postdoctoral Researcher Theory Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

Education

U.S.A.	Ph.D. - Statistics (2007) UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
France	Diplome d'Ingenieur (2001) Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Canada	M.Sc.A. - Applied Mathematics/Operations Research (2003) B.Eng. - Engineering Physics (2002) Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada

Selected Publications (preprints are available here)

Evolutionary Trees and the Ising Model on the Bethe Lattice: A Proof of Steel's Conjecture

Probability Theory and Related Fields, 149(1-2):149-189, 2011. With C. Daskalakis, E. Mossel.

Toward Extracting All Phylogenetic Information from Matrices of Evolutionary Distances

Science, 327(5971):1376 - 1379, 2010.

Submodularity of Influence in Social Networks: From Local to Global

SIAM J. Comput., 39(6):2176-2188, 2010. With E. Mossel.

First to Market is not Everything: an Analysis of Preferential Attachment with Fitness

Proceedings of ACM STOC 2007, 135-144. With C. Borgs, J. Chayes and C. Daskalakis.

Upstream Reciprocity and the Evolution of Gratitude

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274(1610):605-609, 2007. With M. Nowak.

Blurb

Sebastien Roch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also affiliated with the Interdepartmental Program in Bioinformatics. He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley under the guidance of Elchanan Mossel. From 2007-2009, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research. His research interests lie at the interface of applied probability, mathematical statistics, and theoretical computer science -- with an emphasis on biological applications.