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May 15, 2025
Kathryn Roeder joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in 1994, where she is now the UPMC Professor of Statistics and Life Sciences in the Departments of Statistics & Data Science and Computational Biology. She earned her PhD in statistics at Pennsylvania State University, after which she was on the…
Florentina Bunea is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Cornell University. She received her PhD in Statistics at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2000. Her research focuses on statistical machine learning methodology and theory. Her work spans model selection theory, optimal estimation in…
Sandrine Dudoit is Executive Associate Dean in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society and Professor in the Department of Statistics and the School of Public Health, at the University of California, Berkeley. She obtained a BSc (1992) and an MSc (1994) in Mathematics from Carleton University, Canada. She…
Louis Cammarata received his PhD from Harvard University in 2024 in the Department of Statistics, co-advised by Professors Tracy Ke and Caroline Uhler (MIT). He was also part of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior to Harvard University, Louis earned his…
The styles Xiao-Li Meng writes about here are the styles of the discipline of statistics: not just the traditional “modeling and fitting” but also “statistics as decision-making” and “statistics as consensus,” as Christopher Phillips recently outlined…
“The Theory That Would Not Die,” Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s 2011 chronicle of Bayes’…