Rob J. Wang

Ushuaia

About Me

    I lead the GTM Data Science team at Stripe. Previously, I have also worked on the data science teams (in both managerial and individual contributor capacities) at Block (Square), Robinhood Markets, Slack Technologies, and Airbnb, developing broad expertise across the growth/GTM, online marketplace, SaaS, payments, and fraud detection domains.

    In September 2017, I received a Ph.D. from the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University, specializing in Operations Research. My advisor was Prof. Peter W. Glynn, and my thesis was titled Brownian Modeling of Queues: Rates of Convergence to Equilibrium, Departure Variability, and Large Deviations.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering (Operations Research), Stanford University (2011-2017)
  • M.S. in Statistics, Stanford University (2015-2016)
  • B.Sc. (Honours) in Mathematics, Queen's University (2007-2011)

Selected Awards

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarships (2011-2015)
  • Arvanitidis Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF) in Memory of William Linvill (2011-2014)
  • Governor General's Academic Medal, Queen's University (2011)
  • Governor General's Academic Medal, Riverside Secondary School (2007)

Publications

  • A Heavy-traffic Perspective on Departure Process Variability (with Peter W. Glynn)
    Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Volume 166, Article 104097 (2023) p.1-25
  • On the Rate of Convergence to Equilibrium for Two-sided Reflected Brownian Motion and for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process (with Peter W. Glynn)
    Queueing Systems, Volume 91, Issue 1-2 (2019) p.1-14
  • On the Rate of Convergence to Equilibrium for Reflected Brownian Motion (with Peter W. Glynn)
    Queueing Systems, Volume 89, Issue 1-2 (2018) p.165-197
  • On the Marginal Standard Error Rule and the Testing of Initial Transient Deletion Methods (with Peter W. Glynn)
    ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 27, No. 1, Article 1 (2016) p.1-30
  • Central Limit Theorems and Large Deviations for Additive Functionals of Reflecting Diffusion Processes (with Peter W. Glynn)
    Fields Communications Series: Asymptotic Laws and Methods in Stochastics (2015) p.329-345
  • Measuring the Initial Transient: Reflected Brownian Motion (with Peter W. Glynn)
    Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (2014) p.652-661
  • Zeros of Ramanujan Polynomials (with M. Ram Murty and C. Smyth)
    J. Ramanujan Math. Soc. 26, No.1 (2011) p.107-125

Miscellaneous