Sam Hawke

Assistant Professor of Statistics

Office: CIS 340C
Telephone: (518) 580-5291
Email: shawke@skidmore.edu
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Professor Hawke joined the department in fall 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Statistics. He completed his Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2025 with a dissertation titled “Innovations in Dimension Reduction: Contrastive, Sufficient, and Fair Approaches.” His research focuses on pre-processing high-dimensional data, fairness in machine learning, statistical consulting, and statistics pedagogy. Professor Hawke cares deeply about using statistics to communicate clearly, and he strives to nurture that ability in his students. In his free time, he enjoys swimming, playing the piano, and spending time with his dog, Lola.