Written by Witten
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…

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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…

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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,…

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Daniela Witten — professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics, mother, Peloton fan — introduces a new column, Written by Witten.   It’s been a long year and a half! Over the course of this pandemic, I have been…

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