Sky Cao

Sky Cao
  • Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    315 Academic Research Building
    265 South 37th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: Probability, analysis, stochastic geometric analysis, Yang-Mills, Markov chain monte carlo

Links: Personal Website

Teaching

Current Courses (Fall 2026)

  • AMCS6481 - Probability Theory

    Measure theoretic foundations, laws of large numbers, large deviations, distributional limit theorems, Poisson processes, random walks, stopping times.

    AMCS6481401

  • MATH6480 - Probability Theory

    Measure theoretic foundations, laws of large numbers, large deviations, distributional limit theorems, Poisson processes, random walks, stopping times.

    MATH6480401

  • STAT9300 - Probability Theory

    Measure theoretic foundations, laws of large numbers, large deviations, distributional limit theorems, Poisson processes, random walks, stopping times.

    STAT9300401 ( Syllabus )

All Courses

  • AMCS6481 - Probability Theory

    Measure theoretic foundations, laws of large numbers, large deviations, distributional limit theorems, Poisson processes, random walks, stopping times.

  • MATH6480 - Probability Theory

    Measure theoretic foundations, laws of large numbers, large deviations, distributional limit theorems, Poisson processes, random walks, stopping times.

  • STAT9300 - Probability Theory

    Measure theoretic foundations, laws of large numbers, large deviations, distributional limit theorems, Poisson processes, random walks, stopping times.

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