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UCLA Mathematics and Statistics Assistant Professor Guido Montúfar was awarded the 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship. Eight UCLA professors were selected among 118 scientists and scholars, making UCLA No. 1 among U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities in the number of new fellows. “Montúfar, who leads the Mathematical Machine Learning Group — centered at UCLA and […]
“Three UCLA professors have been honored with the Los Angeles County’s “Gold Eagle Award” for their service on the county’s COVID-19 predictive modeling team. Team members included Thomas Belin (pictured above on the left), professor of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; Andrea Bertozzi (pictured above center) , UCLA’s Betsy Wood Knapp […]
Dr. Rishi Sonthalia is a Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA under Andrea Bertozzi, Jacob Foster, and Guido Montufar. He has been awarded the Peter Smereka Award for the best Applied & Interdisciplinary Mathematics thesis of last year for his thesis “Metric and Representation, Learning”, advised by Anna Gilbert and Raj-Rao Nadakuditi. The University of Michigan will […]
UCLA Professor Deanna Needell joins the Class of 2022 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for her contributions to compressed sensing and the mathematics of data. The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. “It is an honor to welcome a […]
“Michael Hill, Michael Hopkins, and Douglas Ravenel will receive the 2022 AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry for their paper “On the nonexistence of elements of Kervaire invariant one.” This paper solved a 50-year-old problem in geometric topology by showing that framed manifolds with Kervaire invariant one can only exist in finitely many dimensions, introducing deeply influential new ideas and […]