ery arias-castro received his ph.d. in statistics from stanford university in 2004. he then took a postdoctoral position at the institute for pure and applied mathematics (ipam), where he participated in the program on multiscale geometry and analysis in high dimensions. after that, he took a postdoctoral position at the mathematical sciences research institute (msri), where he participated in the program on  mathematical, computational and statistical aspects of image analysis. he joined the faculty in the mathematics department at ucsd in 2005.  his research interests are in high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, spatial statistics, image processing, and applied probability.