IFDS Welcomes Postdoctoral Affiliates for 2022-23
Introducing the current cohort of postdocs. Click on their photos for more information.
IFDS Workshop on Distributional Robustness in Data Science
Deadline to register is 11:30AM PT on July 7, 2022.
Stephen Wright honored with a 2022 Hilldale Award
He is one of four University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members recognized for contributions to teaching, research and service.
Rodriguez elected as a 2022 ASA Fellow
ASA Fellows are named for their outstanding contributions to statistical science, leadership, and advancement of the field.
Sebastien Roch named Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Roch is recognized for contributions to the applications of probability theory in evolutionary biology.
PIMS-IFDS-NSF Summer School in Optimal Transport
Registration is now open at through the PIMS event webpage. Please note that the deadline to apply for funded accommodation for junior participants is Feb15.
Wisconsin Announces Fall ’21 and Spring ’22 RAs
The UW-Madison IFDS site is funding several Research Assistants >
IFDS Summer School 2021: Registration Open!
More details at: IFDS Summer School 2021
Six Cluster Hires in Data Science at UW–Madison
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.
Research Highlights: Robustness meets Algorithms
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".