Victoria Stodden

Victoria is a Postdoctoral Associate in Law and a Kauffman Fellow in Law at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. After completing my PhD in statistics, I obtained a Master's in Legal Studies in 2007 from Stanford Law School where I created a new licensing structure for computational research. My paper proposing this Intellectual Property framework, called the Reproducible Research Standard, won the Kaltura Writing Competition, given in connection with the Third Conference on Access to Knowledge (A2K3) in 2008. I completed my PhD in statistics at Stanford University in 2006 with advisor David Donoho. My thesis evaluated regression techniques for cases where there are many more variables than observations, addressing a key consequence of the modern data deluge. A component of my dissertation was the creation and release of SparseLab, a collaborative platform for distributing code and data underlying published papers that focus on sparse solutions to underdetermined syst