Robert Michael Weylandt
Asst Professor
Zicklin School of Business
Department: Paul Chook Dept InfoSys & Stat
Areas of expertise:
Email Address: michael.weylandt@baruch.cuny.edu
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- Teaching
- Research and Creative Activity
- Grants
- Honors and Awards
- Service
Michael Weylandt is an Assistant Professor in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. Before joining Baruch, he held postdoctoral positions at Sandia National Laboratories and through the US Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship. His work has been recognized with best paper awards from the American Statistical Association in both Statistical Learning and Data Science and in Business & Economic Statistics. He has served as a mentor in the Google Summer of Code program for 7 years on behalf of the R Foundation for Statistical Computing and previously held an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He received a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering from Princeton University in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Rice University in 2020, where he was supervised by Katherine B. Ensor.
Education
Ph.D., Statistics, William Marsh Rice University Houston United States
M.A., Statistics, William Marsh Rice University Houston United States
B.Sc., Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University Princeton United States
Journal Articles
(2026). Conditional Pathways-Based Climate Attribution. Climate Dynamics, 64. 228.
(2026). Multivariate Analysis for Multiple Network Data via Semi-Symmetric Tensor PCA. Journal of the American Statistical Association,
Nichol, J., Weylandt, M., Fricke, G., Moses, M. E., Bull, D., & Swiler, L. P. (2025). Space-Time Causal Discovery in Climate Science: A Local Stencil Learning Approach. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, 2(3).
Lehoucq, R. B., Weylandt, M., & Berry, J. W. (2024). Optimal accuracy for linear sets of equations with the graph Laplacian. ArXiv Pre-Print 2405.07877. Intended for SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. , In Progress.
Weylandt, M., & Swiler, L. P. (2024). Beyond PCA: Additional Dimension Reduction Techniques to Consider in the Development of Climate Fingerprints. Journal of Climate, 37(5). 1723--1735.
(2022). Debiasing Projections for Fair Principal Components Analysis. In Progress.
(2022). To the Fairness Frontier and Beyond: Identifying, Quantifying, and Optimizing the Fairness-Accuracy Pareto Frontier. ArXiv Pre-Print 2206.00074. Under revision to be submitted at Journal of Machine Learning Research,
(2021). HepatoScore14: Measures of Biological Heterogenity Significantly Improve Prediction of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk. Hepatology, 73(6). 2278-2292.
(2021). Ecological correlates of reproductive status in a guild of Afrotropical understory trees. BioRXiv Pre-Print 10.1101/2021.01.14.426416 , In Progress.
Weylandt, M., Nagorski, J., & Allen, G. I. (2020). Dynamic Visualization and Fast Computation for Convex Clustering via Algorithmic Regularization. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 29(1). 87-96.
(2019). Multivariate Modeling of Natural Gas Spot Trading Hubs Incorporating Futures Market Realized Volatility. ArXiv Pre-Print 1907.10152, In Progress.
Nichol, J., Weylandt, M., Fricke, G., Perez-Carrasquilla, J. S., & Moses, M. E. M-Castle: Uncovering Local Causal Structures in Multivariate Space-Time Gridded Data. Intended for Transactions on Machine Learning Research, In Progress.
Finding Local Structure in Extremely Large Graphs: Computational and Statistical Asymptotics. Intended for Journal of the American Statistical Association, In Progress.
Conference Proceedings
Weylandt, M., Roddenberry, T. M., & Allen, G. I. (2021). Simultaneous Grouping and Denoising via Sparse Convex Wavelet Clustering. DSLW 2021: Proceedings of the IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop 2021.
Navarro, M., Allen, G. I., & Weylandt, M. (2021). Network Clustering for Latent State and Changepoint Detection. ArXiv Pre-Print 2111.01273. In Progress.
Weylandt, M., Michailidis, G., & Roddenberry, T. M. (2021). Sparse Partial Least Squares for Coarse Noisy Graph Alignment. SSP 2021: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop.
Weylandt, M., & Michailidis, G. (2021). Automatic Registration and Convex Clustering of Time Series. ICASSP 2021: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.
Weylandt, M. (2019). Multi-Rank Sparse and Functional PCA: Manifold Optimization and Iterative Deflation Techniques. CAMSAP 2019: Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing.
Weylandt, M. (2019). Splitting Methods For Convex Bi-Clustering And Co-Clustering. DSW 2019: Proceedings of the IEEE Data Science Workshop 2019.
Allen, G. I., & Weylandt, M. (2019). Sparse and Functional Principal Components Analysis. DSW 2019: Proceedings of the IEEE Data Science Workshop 2019.
| Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching Innovation Award 2026 | Zicklin Schol of Business | 2026-03-12 | Prof. Michael Weylandt (Chook Department of Information Systems & Statistics), who receives the award for his AI-forward, project-based approach that shifts emphasis from routine coding to higher order analytic reasoning, real-world problem solving, and professional communication, through the use of scaffolded mini projects, public-facing student portfolios, and the development of a custom course management system (CISSOID) to support high touch feedback at scale. |
| IMS New Researchers Conference - Travel Award | 24th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability | 2024-08-01 | Travel award ($500) to attend the IMS-Sponsored 24th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability (August 1-3, 2024). |
College
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISS Teaching Tech (T^2) Seminar Organizing Committee | Committee Chair | Present | |
| Ad Hoc Committee to Review MS QMM | Committee Member | Present | |
| Ad Hoc Faculty Committee to Develop OMBA STA9750 | Committee Member | Present | |
| Zicklin Analytics Open House | Committee Member | Present | |
| Department Committee on Prizes, Awards, and Scholarships | Committee Member | Present |
Professional
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics | Reviewer, Journal Article | 1/28/2021 | Present | International | ||
| Journal of Machine Learning Research | Reviewer, Journal Article | 6/1/2022 | Present | International | ||
| Journal of the American Statistical Association | Reviewer, Journal Article | 5/17/2026 | Present | International | ||
| ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) | Reviewer, Conference Paper | 2/18/2024 | Present | International | ||
| Joint Statistical Meetings 2025 | Session Chair | 11/14/2024 | Present | International | ||
| Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling ICML Workshop | Program Committee | 4/4/2024 | Present | International |