Lectures and Addresses
Laurent Saloff-Coste received his PhD in 1983 at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now, Sorbonne University) under the supervision of Nicholas Varopoulos. In 1992, he became Directeur de Recherche for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the Université Paul Sabatier, in Toulouse. In 1998, he moved to Cornell …
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, with a focus on unsupervised learning. Daniela is the recipient of an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, a Sloan …
Yuqi Gu is a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan, advised by Gongjun Xu. Her research interests include statistical machine learning, latent variable models, and psychometrics. Yuqi is passionate about developing theoretically principled and computationally efficient methods to solve problems of scientific interests. …
Roger Koenker was born in 1947 in North Dakota, graduated from Grinnell College in 1969 and received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1974. He began his academic career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974. From 1976–83, he was a Member of the Technical Staff…
Paul R. Rosenbaum is the Robert G. Putzel Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has worked since 1986. Prior to this, he worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Educational Testing Service. He…