Counting Crayons - with Po-Ling Loh

Po-Ling Loh is an American theoretical statistician based at the University of Cambridge. She discusses her childhood, choosing a university, and her path to higher dimensional statistics and differential privacy. She also compares life as an academic in the US and UK. This episode was made possible by the Leverhulme Trust, a UK-based organisation which funds ambitious blue skies research across various disciplines - Professor Loh was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. More about her prize here - Professor Loh’s website -

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Counting Crayons - with Po-Ling Loh is an episode from The Numberphile Podcast by Brady Haran.

This episode is 00:39:23 long.

This episode was published on Dec 14, 2024.

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