Adway Wadekar

Undergraduate at Duke University

Contact: adway.wadekar@duke.edu

Curriculum Vitae

About

I'm a senior at Duke University studying mathematics and statistics. I am interested in a broad array of statistical topics, including statistical genetics, missing data, survey statistics, differential privacy and applications to the biomedical and social sciences. On the more mathematical side, I have a growing interest in high-dimensional probability and algebraic and geometric statistics.

At Duke, I am very fortunate to work with Prof. Jerry Reiter, Prof. Jichun Xie and Prof. Ezra Miller. I also work with Prof. Chirag Patel at Harvard Medical School.

Outside of research, I have a strong interest in journalism and worked as a news reporter and editor for The Chronicle, Duke's student-run newspaper.

I am an avid basketball fan and work on the creative team for Duke Men’s Basketball.

Research

Papers

  1. Wadekar, A.S. and Reiter, J.P. (2024). “Evaluating binary outcome classifiers estimated from survey data.” Epidemiology, 35(6), pp. 805-812.
  2. Wadekar, A.S. (2020). “A psychosocial approach to predicting substance use disorder (SUD) among adolescents.” In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Intl. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 819-826.
  3. Wadekar, A.S. (2020). “Understanding Opioid Use Disorder using tree-based classifiers.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 208, 107839.

Ongoing projects

  1. Discovering nonlinear effects between protein expression and quantitative phenotypes at biobank scale.
  2. Toric geometry of Bayesian log-linear models.
  3. Decision analyses in the presence of missing data.
  4. Applying statistical knockoffs to detect (causal) common variants in genome-wide association studies.

Journalism

Below is a selection of my recent clips.