Mayya Zhilova is an associate professor in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech and an affiliated member of the Machine Learning Center. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2015. 

Her primary research interests lie in the areas of mathematical statistics, statistical learning theory, and uncertainty quantification, particularly in statistical inference for complex high-dimensional data, performance of resampling procedures for various classes of problems, functional estimation, and inference for misspecified models.