Elizabeth (Betsy) Bersson

I am a postdoctoral fellow in Tamara Broderick’s group at MIT. In May 2024, I received my PhD from the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University under the supervision of Peter Hoff. My work is related to hierarchical modeling, covariance estimation, small area estimation, and conformal prediction.

Outside of statistics, I enjoy reading, going on walks, particularly through gardens, and ~~vegetable gardening~~ (no yard in Boston).

September 2025: Check out an invited session I organized on citizen science data analysis at RSS 2025 in Edinburgh.
June 2025: Talk on Covariance Meta Regression at BNP in LA.
April 2025: Invited talk on Covariance Meta Regression at the Department of Statistics seminar at U Mass Amherst.