Michael S. Turner is an American theoretical cosmologist who coined the term dark energy in 1998. He is the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Chicago,having previously served as the Bruce V. &Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor,and as the assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the US National Science Foundation.
William Gilbert Strang is an American mathematician known for his contributions to finite element theory,the calculus of variations,wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education,including publishing mathematics textbooks. Strang was the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught Linear Algebra,Computational Science,and Engineering,Learning from Data,and his lectures are freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation is an American non-profit organization that awards prestigious fellowships to Ph.D. students in the applied physical,biological and engineering sciences. The fellowship provides students with up to $250,000 of support over five years,giving them flexibility and the ability to pursue their own interests,as well as mentoring from alumni fellows. Fellowship recipients pledge to make their skills available to the United States in times of national emergency.
Nancy Jane Kopell is an American mathematician and professor at Boston University. She is co-director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet). She organized and directs the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative (CRC). Kopell received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1963 and her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1967. She held visiting positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France (1970),MIT,and the California Institute of Technology (1976).
Jianqing Fan is a statistician,financial econometrician,and data scientist. He is currently the Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance,Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering,Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning,and a former Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (2012–2015) and a former director of Committee of Statistical Studies (2005–2017) at Princeton University,where he directs both statistics lab and financial econometrics lab since 2008.
Andrea Louise Bertozzi is an American mathematician. Her research interests are in non-linear partial differential equations and applied mathematics.
Ronitt Rubinfeld is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. At MIT she is a faculty lead for the Theory of Computation group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Martin Aaron Golubitsky is an American Distinguished professor of mathematics at Ohio State University and the former director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute.
John D. Lafferty is an American scientist,Professor at Yale University and leading researcher in machine learning. He is best known for proposing the Conditional Random Fields with Andrew McCallum and Fernando C.N. Pereira.
Ioannis George (Yannís) Kevrekidis is currently the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering within the Whiting School of Engineering,Johns Hopkins University. He holds secondary appointments in the Whiting School's Department of Applied Mathematics &Statistics and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Department of Urology.
Mina Aganagić is a mathematical physicist who works as a professor in the Center for Theoretical Physics,the Department of Mathematics,the Department of Physics at the University of California,Berkeley.
Haesun Park is a professor and chair of Computational Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is an IEEE Fellow,ACM Fellow,and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellow. Park's main areas of research are Numerical Algorithms,Data Analysis,Visual Analytics and Parallel Computing. She has co-authored over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
Hinke Maria Osinga is a Dutch mathematician and an expert in dynamical systems. She works as a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. As well as for her research,she is known as a creator of mathematical art.
Inderjit Singh Dhillon is the Gottesman Family Centennial Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics and Director of the ICES Center for Big Data Analytics at the University of Texas at Austin. His main research interests are in machine learning,computational learning theory,mathematical optimisation,linear algebra,data analysis,parallel computing and network analysis.
Rachel Ward is an American applied mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin. She is known for work on machine learning,optimization,and signal processing. At the University of Texas,she is W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Distinguished Professor in Computational Engineering and Sciences—Data Science,and professor of mathematics.
Tamara Ann Broderick is an American computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on machine learning and Bayesian inference.
Laurie Jeanne Butler is an American physical chemist known for her experimental work testing the Born–Oppenheimer approximation on separability of nuclear and electron motions. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Chicago.
Rina Foygel Barber is an American statistician whose research includes works on the Bayesian statistics of graphical models,false discovery rates,and regularization. She is the Louis Block Professor of statistics at the University of Chicago.
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.
Lenore Jennifer Cowen is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in graph coloring,network routing,and computational biology. She is a professor of computer science and of mathematics at Tufts University.
