Asher Spector is a co-founder of Flapping Airplanes. He earned his PhD in statistics at Stanford, advised by Emmanuel Candès, and graduated from Harvard in 2021. His work focuses on statistical inference and machine learning. During his doctoral research, he collaborated with researchers at Cursor, Mercor, BlackRock and Novartis; earlier, he interned at Meta and Bridgewater. He also coaches Stanford's parliamentary debate team.
Co-founder
Doctoral Researcher
Research in statistical inference with Emmanuel Candès.
Intern
Intern
PhD in Statistics
BA in Statistics and Mathematics, summa cum laude
