Daniela M. Witten

Agenda:

3:30 - 4:00pm - Arrival

4:00 - 4:05pm - Opening Remarks, Brooks Hall 145

4:05 - 5:00pm - Lecture, Dr. Daniela Witten, University of Washington, Brooks Hall 145 

5:00 - 5:30pm - Break

5:30 - 7:00pm - Dinner, Founders Memorial Garden

7:05 - 7:45pm - After Dinner Talk, Dr. Daniela Witten. Brooks Hall 145

Biography:

Dr. 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. She has received a number of awards for her research in statistical machine learning: most notably the Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association for a (bio)statistician under age 40, and the Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies for a statistician under age 41. Dr. Witten is a co-author of the textbook "Introduction to Statistical Learning", and beginning in 2023 will serve as Joint Editor of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B.

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Co-Sponsors

This event is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.

Georgia Chapter of the American Statistical Association