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Daniela Witten writes:
This Bulletin issue announces the Class of 2023 IMS Fellows. First and foremost: congratulations to each and every new Fellow! This is an incredible career accomplishment. You make me optimistic about the future of our field.
However, today I’d like to discuss the fact that only three…
On a cloudy February day in Seattle in early 2014, I was feeling pretty good. My tenure process had made it through all but the final stage of approval (which is typically a formality), my husband and I were expecting our first baby in just over five weeks, and I…
Contributing Editor Daniela Witten writes:
I was in my second year of grad school when I first heard of “impostor syndrome”, the well-studied psychological phenomenon by which highly talented and accomplished people doubt their talent and accomplishments, and live in constant fear that the outside world will discover them as…
Daniela Witten wins the prestigious 2022 COPSS Presidents’ Award
Daniela Witten is a professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics. She develops statistical machine learning methods for high-dimensional data. Much of her work is motivated by applications in genomics…
Daniela Witten writes:
Daniela Witten writes: I’ve never been shy about asking for advice. As a first-year grad student, I’d beg more senior students for tips on passing quals and writing a dissertation. And as junior faculty, I asked senior colleagues how to manage my time, prioritize projects, advise students,…