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Yulia Gel

Professor

Education

  • Saint Petersburg State University, Russia — Mathematics, MSc, 1997 (summa cum laude)
  • Saint Petersburg State University, Russia — Mathematics, PhD, 2000
  • University of Washington, USA — Statistics, Postdoc, 2001–2003

Experience

  • 09/2024 – onwards Professor, Department of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
  • 09/2024 – onwards Program Director-Expert, National Science Foundation

    Past Appointments

  • 09/2021 – 09/2024 Program Director, National Science Foundation (on leave from UTD)
  • 2015 – 2024 Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
  • 2004 – 2014 Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada

Awards & Honors

  • 2023 NSF Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment
  • 2018 The American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistics and the Environment Distinguished Achievement Medal
  • 2014 Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • 2014 The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) Abdel El-Shaarawi Young Researcher's Award
  • 2012 The Robert Harding Humanities and Social Sciences Award, U. of Waterloo, Canada
  • 2004 JASA Applications and Case Studies Invited Paper of the Year
  • 1999 The 1st Prize at The 7th International Student Olympiad on Automatic Control
  • Stat foundations of data science
  • Uncertainty Quantification in Deep Learning and Artificial Intellegence
  • Statistical Topological Data Analysis
  • Simplicial Neural Networks

Click here to see a full list of Dr. Gel's publications on Google Scholar.

Yulia Gel

Professor

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