Biography:Rebecca Willett
Rebecca Willett is an American statistician and computer scientist whose research involves machine learning, signal processing, and data science. She is a professor of statistics and computer science at the University of Chicago.[1]
Willett has a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, completed in 2005. She worked as a faculty member in electrical and computer engineering at Duke University from 2005 until 2013, when she moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] She moved again to the University of Chicago in 2018.[2]
Her research has included machine learning methods for the analysis of corn crop quality,[3] and weather patterns.[4] She was named a SIAM Fellow in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to mathematical foundations of machine learning, large-scale data science, and computational imaging",[5] and an IEEE Fellow in 2022 "for contributions to the foundations of computational imaging and large-scale data science".[6] In 2022, she was elected Vice Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Imaging Science (SIAM SIAG/IS).[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Profile: Rebecca Willett, University of Chicago Computer Science Department, https://computerscience.uchicago.edu/people/profile/rebecca-willett/
- ↑ DSP Alum Rebecca Willett Joins University of Chicago, Digital Signal Processing at Rice University, June 25, 2018, http://dsp.rice.edu/2018/06/25/dsp-alum-rebecca-willett-joining-university-of-chicago/
- ↑ "New Silage App Designed to Improve Corn Silage Quality", Dairy Herd Management, June 1, 2018, https://www.dairyherd.com/article/new-silage-app-designed-improve-corn-silage-quality
- ↑ Mitchum, Rob (September 11, 2018), "Multi-university collaboration will use climate data analysis to improve regional forecasts", UChicago News, https://news.uchicago.edu/story/data-science-aims-find-next-el-nino
- ↑ "SIAM Announces Class of 2021 Fellows", SIAM News (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), March 31, 2021, https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/siam-announces-class-of-2021-fellows, retrieved 2021-04-03
- ↑ 2022 newly elevated fellows, IEEE, https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2022-ieee-fellows-class.pdf, retrieved 2022-03-02
- ↑ "SIAM Activity Groups Election Results" (in en-US). https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/siam-activity-groups-election-results-56.
External links
- Home page
- Rebecca Willett publications indexed by Google Scholar
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