Caroline Uhler

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Caroline Uhler (* 1983 ) is a Swiss statistician. She is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA. In July 2019 she was appointed professor for machine learning , statistics and genomics at ETH Zurich . Her research deals with the fundamentals and applications of graphical models, a class of statistical models used to model high-dimensional data.

Education and career

Uhler was born in Switzerland. She studied mathematics and biology at the University of Zurich and graduated in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, in 2006 with a second bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in mathematics. She stayed at the University of Zurich to obtain a teaching diploma for high schools, but moved to the University of California , Berkeley in 2017 . There she received her doctorate in both statistics and technology management in 2011. Her dissertation , Geometry of Maximum Probability Estimation in Gaussian Graphical Models , was supervised by Bernd Sturmfels , an algebraic geometer and algebraic statistician.

In 2011 she became an assistant professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria , in 2012 she took a leave of absence for postdocs at the ETH Zurich and in 2013 for a semester-long return visit to Berkeley as a research fellow. She moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Henry L. and Grace Doherty Assistant Professor in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. In 2019 she was appointed professor by the ETH.

Awards

She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and has received a Simons Investigator Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship , an NSF Career Award, a Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Humboldt Foundation and a START Award from the Austrian Science Foundation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 21 professors appointed at both ETHs. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Home | WITH | Caroline Uhler. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Caroline Uhler - The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Uhler, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss statistician
DATE OF BIRTH 1983