Nathan Cantafio

Graduate Student · UBC Statistics

I am an MSc student in statistics at the University of British Columbia. Along the way I've picked up some applied work doing statistical consulting with UBC's Applied Statistics and Data Science group (ASDA). I'm currently on a co-op at Health Canada studying the health effects of chemical mixtures. I'm interested in a wide swath of statistics, but I have a soft spot for the simple ideas that seem to punch above their weight class, like plain old linear regression or a well-reasoned experimental design. I care about doing rigorous statistics carefully and explaining it clearly, two things that unfortunately don't always go together.

I previously earned a BSc Combined Honours in Mathematics and Statistics from UBC, where I did undergraduate research on Gaussian processes and Bayesian optimization.

Outside of stats, I can be found playing or watching soccer. I helped start a department futsal team, and I'm a Whitecaps supporter. I'm also into board games (lately Catan and Hanabi). Hanabi is a game about getting a message across with very limited information, which is either a nice break from statistics or more of the same.

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