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Peter Bühlmann
ETH Zürich
Biosketch
Peter Bühlmann is Professor of Mathematics and
Statistics, and Director of Foundations of Data Science at ETH Zürich. He
studied mathematics at ETH Zürich and received his doctoral degree in 1993
from the same institution. He was then a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1994–
1995 and a Neyman Assistant Professor from 1995–1997 at UC Berkeley.
From 2013–2017, he was Chair of the Department of Mathematics at ETH
Zürich. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a Fellow
of the American Statistical Association, and was Co-Editor of the Annals of
Statistics from 2010–2012. Other honors which he recently received include
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2017;
Neyman Lecturer 2018, elected by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics;
Rothschild Lecture 2018 at the Newton Institute (Cambridge); and the Guy
Medal in Silver 2018 from the Royal Statistical Society. He was an invited
speaker at the ICM 2018 in Rio de Janeiro and at the ICIAM 2019 in Valencia.
Xavier Cabré
ICREA and Polytechnic University of
Catalonia
Biosketch
Xavier Cabré was awarded his PhD in Mathematics
in the area of Partial Differential Equations under his adviser Louis
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Peter Bühlmann
ETH Zürich
Biosketch
Peter Bühlmann is Professor of Mathematics and
Statistics, and Director of Foundations of Data Science at ETH Zürich. He
studied mathematics at ETH Zürich and received his doctoral degree in 1993
from the same institution. He was then a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1994–
1995 and a Neyman Assistant Professor from 1995–1997 at UC Berkeley.
From 2013–2017, he was Chair of the Department of Mathematics at ETH
Zürich. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a Fellow
of the American Statistical Association, and was Co-Editor of the Annals of
Statistics from 2010–2012. Other honors which he recently received include
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2017;
Neyman Lecturer 2018, elected by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics;
Rothschild Lecture 2018 at the Newton Institute (Cambridge); and the Guy
Medal in Silver 2018 from the Royal Statistical Society. He was an invited
speaker at the ICM 2018 in Rio de Janeiro and at the ICIAM 2019 in Valencia.
Xavier Cabré
ICREA and Polytechnic University of
Catalonia
Biosketch
Xavier Cabré was awarded his PhD in Mathematics
in the area of Partial Differential Equations under his adviser Louis
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