Michael Irwin Jordan is an American scientist,professor at the University of California,Berkeley and researcher in machine learning,statistics,and artificial intelligence.
Frank Thomson "Tom" Leighton is the CEO of Akamai Technologies,the company he co-founded with the late Daniel Lewin in 1998. As one of the world's preeminent authorities on algorithms for network applications and cybersecurity,Dr. Leighton discovered a solution to free up web congestion using applied mathematics and distributed computing.
Stephen Elliott Fienberg was a professor emeritus in the Department of Statistics,the Machine Learning Department,Heinz College,and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University. Fienberg was the founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application and of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.
Alfred Zalmon Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager. He is a visiting scholar in the MIT EECS Department and was previously CTO of Two Sigma Investments. Before that,he was Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google.
Lawrence David (Larry) Brown was Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He is known for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory,recurrence and partial differential equations,nonparametric function estimation,minimax and adaptation theory,and the analysis of census data and call-center data.
Moshe Ya'akov Vardi is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University,United States. and a faculty advisor for the Ken Kennedy Institute. His interests focus on applications of logic to computer science,including database theory,finite model theory,knowledge of multi-agent systems,computer-aided verification and reasoning,and teaching logic across the curriculum. He is an expert in model checking,constraint satisfaction and database theory,common knowledge (logic),and theoretical computer science.
Theodore Wilbur Anderson was an American mathematician and statistician who specialized in the analysis of multivariate data. He was born in Minneapolis,Minnesota. He was on the faculty of Columbia University from 1946 until moving to Stanford University in 1967,becoming Emeritus Professor in 1988. He served as Editor of Annals of Mathematical Statistics from 1950 to 1952. He was elected President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1962.
Cynthia Dwork is an American computer scientist best known for her contributions to cryptography,distributed computing,and algorithmic fairness. She is one of the inventors of differential privacy and proof-of-work.
Andrew Eric Gelman is an American statistician and professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University.
Chien-Fu Jeff Wu is the Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on the convergence of the EM algorithm,resampling methods such as the bootstrap and jackknife,and industrial statistics,including design of experiments,and robust parameter design.
Nancy Margaret Reid is a Canadian theoretical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory. In 2015 Reid became Director of the Canadian Institute for Statistical Sciences.
Jun S. Liu is a Chinese-American statistician focusing on Bayesian statistical inference,statistical machine learning,and computational biology. He was assistant professor of statistics at Harvard University from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 2004,he was Assistant,Associate,and full Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. Since 2000,Liu has been Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and held a courtesy appointment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics,scientific computing,scientific methods,processes,algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from potentially noisy,structured,or unstructured data.
Eric Poe Xing is an American computer scientist whose research spans machine learning,computational biology,and statistical methodology. Xing is founding President of the world’s first artificial intelligence university,Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Hui Xiong is a data scientist. He is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University and a distinguished guest professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
Fredrick DuBois Bowman is an American statistician who is the Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. His research applies statistical analysis to brain imaging to better understand Alzheimer's disease,schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. Bowman is a member of the National Academy of Medicine,Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,and Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Yingying Fan is a Chinese-American statistician and Centennial Chair in Business Administration and Professor in Data Sciences and Operations Department of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. She is currently the Associate Dean for the PhD Program at USC Marshall. She also holds joint appointments at the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters,Arts and Sciences,and Keck Medicine of USC. Her contributions to statistics and data science were recognized by the Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze in 2017 and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecture in 2023. She was elected Fellow of American Statistical Association in 2019 and Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics for seminal contributions to high-dimensional inference,variable selection,classification,networks,and nonparametric methodology,particularly in the field of financial econometrics,and for conscientious professional service in 2020.
Peter Guttorp is a statistician,born in Sweden,with most of his career in the United States. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and professor at the Norwegian Computing Center. Most of his work is in stochastic modeling of scientific data in hematology,geosciences,and climatology,with particular focus on spatial and spatio-temporal approaches. He has also worked in the history of statistics.
Nitesh V. Chawla is a computer scientist and data scientist currently serving as the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is the Founding Director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data &Society. Chawla's research expertise lies in machine learning,data science,and network science. He is also the co-founder of Aunalytics,a data science software and cloud computing company. Chawla is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,a Fellow of the Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association,and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has received multiple awards,including the 1st Source Bank Commercialization Award in 2017,Outstanding Teaching Award (twice),IEEE CIS Early Career Award,National Academy of Engineering New Faculty Award,and the IBM Big Data Award in 2013. One of Chawla's most recognized publications,with a citation count of over 25,000,is the research paper titled "SMOTE:Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique." Chawla's research has garnered a citation count of over 62,000 and an H-index of 80.
