Marcus Michelen’s work was featured in Quanta magazine

Marcus Michelen’s work was featured in Quanta magazine

To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random The article reads: “Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional spheres.”  “Last December, Sahasrabudhe, together with his Cambridge...
Veronika Rockova awarded the COPSS award

Veronika Rockova awarded the COPSS award

IDEAL faculty member Veronika Rockova has been awarded the COPSS award. This is the highest award in statistics. “For path-breaking contributions to theory and methodology at the intersection of Bayesian and frequentist Statistics in the areas of variable...
Vishesh Jain receives NSF CAREER award for 2023-28

Vishesh Jain receives NSF CAREER award for 2023-28

IDEAL faculty Vishesh Jain(UIC) has received an NSF CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) award. CAREER is an NSF (National Science Foundation) award that supports early-career faculty that may serve as academic role model in research and education and...
Forging New Connections Within IDEAL

Forging New Connections Within IDEAL

A team of 80 faculty members, postdocs, students, and industry representatives gathered for the daylong Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning (IDEAL) annual meeting this month at Northwestern’s Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center in...