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Veteran researcher Fadil Santosa’s second five-year term begins July 1.

NSF CAREER award to advance scalable optimization tools to solve complex data science challenges in health care, energy, and finance.

Department student and faculty members receive the 2024 Best Paper Award at the 38th Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference.

Joseph Paat, PhD '17, wins 2024 INFORMS Young Researcher Prize for contributions to mathematical optimization theory.

Assistant Professor Mateo Diaz and his team win the 2024 Beale—Orchard-Hays Prize for their work on Primal-Dual Linear Programming.

Postdoctoral fellow in the department has won the 2023 Leonard J. Savage Award for his outstanding dissertation in Bayesian statistics.

Ishan Kalburge, an applied mathematics and statistic graduate, with a focus on probabilistic deep learning in decision-making, has been awarded the 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

Assistant professor Soledad Villar has been honored with the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Graduate students in Applied Mathematics and Statistics receive 2024 Student Paper Award.

Caelyn Sobie, a PhD student in applied mathematics and statistics, joins the second cohort of Vivien Thomas Scholars. This month, she and 14 other scholars will begin their PhD studies at the university as part of a $150 million initiative to advance pathways for students from HBCUs and MSIs in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Nicolas Loizou has been granted a Cisco Research Gift to create open-source tools aimed at conducting research in federated learning that will have a positive impact on the wider machine-learning community.

Three undergraduate students who created a new tool that promises to make the process of “proofreading” maps of the connections between brain cells more accurate and efficient earned a 2023…