The author of this article is a professor of statistics at Columbia, so I’m not sure I’d call him a “talker” or “TED person”. The article even starts by mention

The author of this article is a professor of statistics at Columbia, so I’m not sure I’d call him a “talker” or “TED person”. The article even starts by mentioning a conference talk about his research, so I doubt the problem is that he doesn’t have a lot to say.