Erik A. Bensen

Hello! I am a PhD student in Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University where I am advised by Mikael Kuusela. I am also a member of the Statistical Methods for the Physical Sciences (STAMPS) Research Center.

My research interests primarily involve developing statistical methods for complex datasets that arise in the physical sciences, with recent work developing simulation-based inference methods to address systematic misspecifications in aerosol simulations.

Before joining CMU in Fall 2023, I was a research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where I worked on a wide range of problems from understanding the energy costs of AI to real-time traffic state estimation.