Sky Cao

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Contact Information

Primary Email:
skycao@wharton.upenn.edu

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.
MATH8100 - Reading Seminar
Reading of mathematical literature under the direction of a faculty member in a group of students. Hours and syllabus to be arranged with the supervising faculty member
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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