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Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 197-206
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Centennial Medal; the 1989 Benjamin Garver Lamme Award from the American Society for Engineering Education; the Clark Kerr Award from the University of California, B erkeley, in 1992; the Founder's Award in 1995 from the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley; and the IEEE Founders Medal and Okawa Prize in 2002. A member of the U.S.
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She also serves as a director of American Century mutual fund complex in Mountain View, California, where she chairs the Risk Committee, and as a director of CYS Investments, a specialty finance company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. From 1994 through 2005, Ms.
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Professor Berger currently chairs the NSF's Advisory Committee for Mathematics and Physical Sciences. His research has primarily been in Bayesian statistics, foundations of statis tics, statistical decision theory, simulation, model selection, and various interdisciplinary areas of science and industry, especially astronomy and the interface between computer modeling and statistics.
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He has carried out research into compressive sensing, mathematical signal processing, computational harmonic analysis, multiscale analysis, scientific computing, statistical estimation and detection, high-dimensional statistics, theoretical computer science, mathematical optimization, and information theory. He received his Diplôme from the Ecole Polytechnique and his Ph.D.
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Dr. LeCun's research focuses on machine learning, computer vision, pattern recognition, neural networks, handwriting recognition, image compression, document understanding, image processing, VLSI design, and information theory.
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His honors include selection as a Medallion lecturer of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in 2002; receipt of the 2002 COPSS Presidents' Award, given annually by five leading statistical societies to a young individual for outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics; election as an IMS fellow in 2004; and selection as Bernoulli lecturer by the Bernoulli Society, 2004.
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Dr. Tardos won the Fulkerson Prize, awarded jointly by the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS)
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Before joining NYU in 2001, she was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and Bell Labs fellow at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. Her research interests include optimization, linear algebra, scientific computing, and real-world applications.
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In 1996 he established a new board to conduct annual peer reviews of the Army Research Laboratory, which conducts a broad array of science, engineering, and human factors research and analysis, and he later directed a similar board that reviews the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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