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CSML Strategic Plan Released
April 14, 2016

After the establishment of CSML, a task force was formed of 10 faculty and staff members from all across campus.  Together, they formulated and wrote a strategic plan for CSML.  This plan was

Barbara Engelhardt named as 2016 Sloan Research Fellow
Feb. 23, 2016

CSML associated faculty and certificate program executive committee member, Barbara Engelhardt, was one of five Princeton University faculty members named as 2016 Sloan Research Fellows. Awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the $55,000 fellowships recognize promising early-career scientists who have been nominated by their colleagues. …

Evan Soltas ’16 awarded 2015 Rhodes Scholarship
Nov. 22, 2015

Evan Soltas '16, a Statistics and Machine Learning undergraduate certificate program student, was awarded the 2015 Rhodes Scholarship.  Congratulations, Evan!

John W. Tukey 100th Birthday Celebration at Princeton University - September 18, 2015
Sept. 18, 2015

"I believe that the whole country -- scientifically, industrially, financially -- is better off because of John Tukey and bears evidence of his influence." -John Wheeler, Princeton professor of physics

The Center for Statistics and Machine Learning will be celebrating John W. Tukey's 100th birthday with a special conference…

John Storey receives 2015 COPSS Presidents' Award
Aug. 15, 2015

CSML Director John Storey was presented with the COPSS Presidents' Award at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle on August 12, 2015.  The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies…

Interview with Jonathan Pillow on Statistical Neuroscience
Aug. 10, 2015

The Princeton University Office of the Dean for Research recently interviewed Professor Jonathan Pillow about his research on the applications of statistics and machine learning to neuroscience.  The title of the article is 

John Storey receives the 2015 Mortimer Spiegelman Award
May 20, 2015

John Storey, Director of CSML, has been awarded the 2015 Mortimer Spiegelman Award. The award was created in 1970 by the Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) to honor a statistician, 40 years of age or…

Professor Han Liu receives the Tweedie New Researcher Award and the Noether Young Scholar Award
Feb. 18, 2015

The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Han Liu as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award.  Prof. Liu is selected "for making fundamental and outstanding contributions to the theory and methods of nonparametric and semiparametric graphical models, with innovative applications in brain science and genomics." The IMS…

CSML Inaugural Seminar Series
Oct. 31, 2014

The Center for Statistics and Machine Learning is pleased to announce its inaugural seminar series composed of six speakers:

David Dunson, Duke University (November 4, 2014) Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University (November 12, 2014) Gary King, Harvard University (February 6, 2015) …
Jianqing Fan receives 2014 Guy Medal in Silver from Royal Statistical Society
Sept. 2, 2014

The 2014 Guy Medal in Silver was awarded to Jianqing Fan by the Royal Statistical Society for (1) his seminal papers Sure independence screening for ultra-high dimensional feature space and Large covariance estimation by thresholding principal orthogonal…