Congratulations to Dr. Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania, who is the 2022 recipient of the SIAM Activity Group on Data Science Early Career Prize, which was awarded at the 2022 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS22) on Thursday, September 29 in San Diego, California. He gave a lecture associated with the prize, titled “When Will You Become the Best Reviewer of Your Own Papers? A Mechanism-Design-Based Approach to Estimation”, on Thursday afternoon.
The SIAM Activity Group on Data Science (SIAG/DATA) awards the prize every two years to an outstanding early career researcher in the mathematics of data science for distinguished contributions to the field in the six calendar years prior to the year of the award. This is the first time that the prize is being awarded.
Su is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a co-director of Penn Research in Machine Learning. Prior to joining Penn, he received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2016 under the supervision of Emmanuel Candès and his bachelor’s degree from Peking University in 2011. His research interests include deep learning theory, privacy-preserving data analysis, optimization, and high-dimensional statistics. He is a recipient of the Stanford Theodore W. Anderson Dissertation Award in 2016, an NSF CAREER Award in 2019, an Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship in 2020, and the IMS Peter Gavin Hall Prize in 2022.