Ran Huo, Teaching Assistant
Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD) Student in Mathematics, 2014-present
I am a mathematician specialized in probability and stochastic processes. In particular, I have been working on voter models on random graphs and am familiar with contact processes, random walks as well as other related interacting particle systems. I am interested in the evolution of the model along with its asymptotic behaviors. A canonical application is the study of competitions among technologies on diverse social networks.
Besides, I am currently working on important sampling and specifically KL-divergence. I am curious about optimizing the size of data sets needed in various experiments.
Before coming to duke, I worked on directed polymer models in random environments for my undergrad research.
I serve as vice president of Graduate Student Chapter of Duke University in SIAM and an International House orientation peer at Duke University.
Educational Background
Bachelor of Science: Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, graduate with distinction
Nanjing University, China 2010-2014 Please note: Ran has left the Mathematics department at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date. - Contact Info:
- Office Hours:
- [MATH 216D] Tu 11:00AM-1:00PM, Physics 274F
- Recent Publications
- Huo, R; Durrett, R, Latent voter model on locally tree-like random graphs,
Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, vol. 128 no. 5
(May, 2018),
pp. 1590-1614, Elsevier BV [doi] [abs]
- Beckman, E; Dinan, E; Durrett, R; Huo, R; Junge, M, Asymptotic behavior of the brownian frog model,
Electronic Journal of Probability, vol. 23
(January, 2018), Institute of Mathematical Statistics [doi] [abs]
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