All were hired as a result of a cluster hiring process proposed by the IFDS Phase 1 leadership at Wisconsin in 2017 and approved by UW-Madison leadership in 2019.

Seminal work by Ilias Diakonikolas and collaborators resolved a long-standing open problem in statistics and at the same time was the beginning of a new area, now known as "algorithmic robust statistics".

Willett was recognized "For her contributions to mathematical foundations of machine learning, large-scale data science, and computational imaging."

A UW-Madison IFDS team recently studied the COVID-19 spreading pattern, and its correlation with business foot traffic, race and ethnicity and age structure of sub-regions within Dane and Milwaukee county.

IFDS members have been active leaders in the data science community over the past year, organizing workshops with participants reflecting all core TRIPODS disciplines, covering a broad range of career stages, and advancing the participation of women.

IFDS Wisc RA Rungang Han, in joint work with >