Florentina Bunea

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Left to right: Huibin Zhou, Angelika Rohde, and Florentina Bunea organized the 2018 MFO Workshop Matrix Estimation Meets Statistical Network Analysis.

Florentina Bunea [1] is a Romanian-American statistician, interested in machine learning, the theory of empirical processes, and high-dimensional statistics. She is a professor at Cornell University.

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Education and career

Bunea earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Bucharest in 1989 and 1991. After working as an assistant professor at the Politehnica University of Bucharest from 1991 to 1995, she returned to graduate study at the University of Washington. [2] She earned her Ph.D. there in 2000; her dissertation, A Model Selection Approach to Partially Linear Regression, was supervised by Jon A. Wellner. [3]

She joined the statistics faculty at Florida State University in 2000, [2] [4] and moved to Cornell University in 2011. [2] [5] At Cornell, she is a faculty member in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, a member of the Center for Applied Mathematics and the Machine Learning Group in Cornell Computing and Information Science (CIS). [6]

Recognition

In 2017, Bunea was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [2] [7]

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References

  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae (PDF), 2017, retrieved 2018-12-02
  3. Florentina Bunea at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Dr. Florentina Bunea Joins the Department" (PDF), Statistics Newsletter, Florida State University Department of Statistics, vol. 4, p. 1, Fall 2000
  5. "Florentina Bunea", New Faculty, Cornell University, 2011, retrieved 2018-12-02
  6. "Florentina Bunea". Cornell University Department of Statistics and Data Science. 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  7. Honored Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, retrieved 2018-12-02