I am a 4th year CDT student in the Department of Statistics under the supervision of Prof. Theo DamoulasLink opens in a new window and a member of the Warwick Machine Learning GroupLink opens in a new window. My research focuses around robust Bayesian inference and model misspecification. I am also interested in applications of robust methodologies in health and medical sciences.

Prior to starting my PhD, I completed an MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at UCL and a BSc in Mathematics at Warwick.

My official name is Charita which is pronounced 'Harita' so I go by the latter.

Publications

C. Dellaporta, J. Knoblauch, T. Damoulas, F-X Briol, Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap, 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, (AISTATS 2022)

• This paper received the Best Paper Award.
• A preliminary version of the paper was accepted at the NeurIPS 2021 workshop “Your model is wrong: Robustness and misspecification in probabilistic modelling”.

Invited talks

• Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap, Seminar on Advances in Probabilistic Machine Learning, Aalto University and ELLIS unit Helsinki, oral presentation (February 2023, remote)
• Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap, One World ABC seminar, University of Warwick, oral presentation (May 2022, remote)
• Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap, DeepMind/ELLIS CSML Seminar, University College London, oral presentation (May 2022, London)
• Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap, Seminar series, Purdue University, oral presentation (May 2022, remote)
• Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap, CSML @ Cambridge reading group, University of Cambridge, oral presentation (April 2022, remote)
• Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap, MLRG Seminar, CSIRO's Data61, oral presentation (April 2022, remote)
  
• Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap, Statistics in Data-Centric Engineering (S-DCE) Seminar Series, Alan Turing Institute, oral presentation (January 2022, remote)

Tutorial teaching

• ST115 Introduction to Probability (Term 2, 2021/2022)
• ST111/ST112 Probability A/B (Term 2, 2020/2021)

Email: c dot dellaporta at warwick.ac.uk