Rebecca Willett will be a Panelist on Why so Few? Women in Underrepresented Fields.

Rebecca Willett is a Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Her research is focused on machine learning, signal processing, and large-scale data science. She completed her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in 2005 and was an Assistant then tenured Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University from 2005 to 2013. She was an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Harvey D. Spangler Faculty Scholar, and Fellow of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2013 to 2018. Willett received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2007, was a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group, and received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program award in 2010.

“I’m participating in Elevate to encourage women to consider exciting opportunities in machine learning and other technical fields.”

Elevate UChicago 2019: Cultivate is Sunday, April 14, 2019, from 11:30 AM – 3:30 PM, in Ida Noyes Hall.

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