Arya Farahi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences ( SDS) at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the director of the D3 Lab which is dedicated to advancing knowledge and innovation in statistical sciences, AI, astronomy, and decision-making. Dr. Arya Farahi is a co-PI and working group lead at the CosmicAI Institute, an NSF-Simons AI Institute based at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on understanding the unexpected and not-well understood consequences of AI models, including algorithmic bias and uncertainty quantification, and developing cutting-edge methodologies and tools to mitigate these challenges.
Prior to joining the University of Texas, he was a Data Science Fellow at the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and McWilliams Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his Bachelor's of Science in Physics and Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and completed his Ph.D. in Physics and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan.
Ritwik is a PhD student in Statistics at Department of Statistics and Data Science. He is primarily interested in developing statistical and machine learning methods that can help tackle problems in science and society. Beyond statistics, he loves to unwind by watching movies, playing a competitive game of tennis, and kayaking.
Nevena is a PhD student in Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. Her research interests focus on solving real-world problems, in areas such as finance, using advanced machine and statistical learning as well as Bayesian modeling methods.
Outside of research, Nevena enjoys staying active through sports like volleyball, tennis, swimming, running, and working out at the gym. She also has a passion for cooking and baking.
Jialu (Walter) Wang is a PhD student at Department of Statistics and Data Science. He is interested in developing principled and scalable approaches at the intersection of machine learning, probabilistic modeling, and statistics to study complex, high-dimensional systems. His vision is to advance generative AI and Bayesian methods as both theoretical frameworks and practical tools for accelerating scientific discovery.Outside of research, Walter enjoys playing basketball, working out at the gym, and spending time at live music events. He is also a fan of board games and video games.
Undergraduates:
Prachi Ingle (Compute Science, 2024) 
MS in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin
Vaishnavi Sathiyaoorthy (Computational Biology, 2024) MS in Biostatistics and Data Science at Cornell University
Hannah Lee (Math, 2023) Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Naima Sagar (Economics, 2023) Department of the Treasury
Vivian Bui (Bussiness, 2023) J.P.Morgan Bank
Rohit Dinesh (Economics, 2022) Boeing
Ben Ayers (Physics, 2022) Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
Spring 2025: Varun Bandaru (UG, SDS) has joined our team.
September 2024: Vineet Burugu (UG, SDS) and Cindy Fan (UG, SDS) have joined our team.
August 2024: Dr. Arya Farahi served as panellist in the Johns Hopkins Responsible AI for Health Symposium (RAIHS)
June 2023: Congradulations to Anjie Liu for being selected for the Junior Fellows program at UT-Austin.
May 2024: Janavi Kolpekwar and Nevena Gligic (PhD, SDS) have joined our team.
January 2024: Nerwen Cao (UG, CS) and Callihan Bertley (UG, Math) have joined our team.
December 2023: Ritwik Vashistha's paper has been accepted for the AAAI-2024 conference.
September 2023:Tu-Quyen Dao joins our lab to contribute to the TAME Pain project, an initiative focused on researching and addressing various aspects of pain asseessment.
June 2023: Congradulations to Prachi Ingle for being selected for the Junior Fellows program at UT-Austin.
May 2023: Naima Sagar has graduated and is joining the Department of the Treasury.
May 2023: Vivian Bai has graduated and is joining J.P.Morgan.
May 2023: Congratulations to Inez Khan, Vaishnavi Sathiyamoorthy, Siddh Shah, and Prachi Ingle on securing summer internships. I’m thrilled to hear about these opportunities and wish you all the best in your new roles.
April 2023: Congratulations to Xiaohan (Jessica) Wu on getting accepted into UT-Austing' economy PhD program.
April 2023: Arya Farahi and Prachi Ingle's submission, "KiTE - An Auditing Tool for Trustworthiness Hypothesis Testing and Quantification," has been selected as a finalist for the AI Audit Challenge 2023.