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March 31, 2020
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. …
Current Index to Statistics finds a new home
Edward Dunne, the Executive Editor of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Mathematical Reviews, writes:
The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is now hosted by the AMS. It is available on the MathSciNet servers: https://mathscinet.ams.org/cis. The database is openly available and uses a…
David John Finney was born in Warrington, UK, on January 3, 1917. His mathematical abilities were recognized by the local school and his parents were advised to transfer him to Manchester Grammar School. From there he won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, to study mathematics, until a health scare…