Yoav Zemel
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Website: https://sma.epfl.ch/
Awards and honours
Second best master poster, 2012
Swiss government scholarship, 2010-2012
EPFL excellence scholarship, 2010-2011
Summa cum laude for the Bachelor, 2010
Participant in workshops for honour students in mathematics and economics, 2009-2010
Hebrew University "Amirim" scholarship, 2008-2010
Hebrew University Dean’s prize, 2008-2009
Hebrew University Rector prize, 2007-2008
Research interests
Geometrical statistics, point processes and shape theory
Functional data analysis
Optimal transportation
Education
Doctorate
| Mathematical statistics2012 – 2017 EPFL
Master
| Applied mathematics. Thesis title: Optimal Transportation: Continuous and Discrete2010 – 2012 EPFL
Bachelor
| Mathematics and economics2007 – 2010 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Selected publications
AMPLITUDE AND PHASE VARIATION OF GENERALISED FUNCTIONAL DATA
Victor M. Panaretos and Yoav Zemel
Published in Submitted to the Annals of Statistics in
Research
Journal articles
Panaretos, V. M. and Zemel, Y. (2016) Amplitude and Phase Variation of Point Processes. Annals of Statistics, 44 (2): 771-812.
Henshaw, J. M. and Zemel, Y. (2017) A unified measure of linear and nonlinear selection on quantitative traits. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 (5): 604&614.
Zemel, Y. and Panaretos, V. M. (2016) Fréchet Means and Procrustes Analysis in Wasserstein Space. To appear in Bernoulli.
Masarotto, M., Panaretos, V.M., and Zemel, Y. (2018)
Procrustes metrics on covariance operators and optimal transportation of Gaussian processes. arXiv:1801.01990