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Appendix A: Biographies of the Committee
Pages 43-48

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... Of particular interest are applications to network security, multimodal sensing and tracking, biomedical imaging, and genomic signal processing. ANI ADHIKARI is a senior lecturer in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and she has received the Distinguished Teaching Award at Berkeley and the Dean's Award for Distinguished 43
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... His algorithms have contributed significantly to the understanding of the maximum entropy principle, of the structure of robust procedures, and of sparse data description. His theoretical research interests have focused on the mathematics of statistical inference and on theoretical questions arising in applying harmonic analysis to various applied problems.
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From page 45...
... Waller Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Mathematical Association of America Hogg Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Education Award, and the ASA Founders Award. He was a co-principal investigator of the NSF-funded Project MOSAIC, serves as the chair of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, is a fellow of the ASA, and was a research fellow at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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... In the early 2000s he was vice president of research and development at WhizBang Labs, a 170-person start-up company that used machine learning for information extraction from the Web. He is an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence fellow, the recipient of the UMass Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Activity, the UMass NSM Distinguished Research Award, the UMass Lilly Teaching Fellowship, and research awards from Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
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... She collaborates with several major research groups in Microsoft Research including eScience, computational science laboratory, computational ecology and environmental science, and the sensing and energy research group. TALITHIA WILLIAMS takes sophisticated numerical concepts and makes them understandable and relatable to everyone.
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... Through her research and work in the community at large, she is helping change the collective mindset regarding STEM in general and math in particular -- rebranding the field of mathematics as anything but dry, technical, or male-dominated but instead a logical, productive career path that is crucial to the future of the country. ANDREW ZIEFFLER is a senior lecturer and researcher in the Quantitative Methods in Education program within the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
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