Yulia Gel

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Yulia R. Gel is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas [1] and an adjunct professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of Waterloo. [2]

Gel earned her doctorate in mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University in Russia, under the supervision of Vladimir N. Fomin. [3] After postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, she joined the Waterloo faculty in 2004, and moved to Dallas in 2014. [4]

In 2014 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for theoretical contributions to nonparametric aspects of spatiotemporal processes; for promoting the application of modern statistical methodologies in law, public policy, and the environmental sciences; and for championing the advancement of women and other under-represented groups in the mathematical and physical sciences." [5]

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References

  1. Mathematics faculty and research, UT Dallas, retrieved 2016-07-12.
  2. "Yulia Gel". Statistics and Actuarial Science. University of Waterloo. 23 February 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  3. Yulia Gel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., eds. (2015), "About the Editors", Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, ISBN   9781482236453 .
  5. ASA Honors 63 New Fellows (PDF), American Statistical Association, June 11, 2014, retrieved 2016-07-11.