D-MATH News

We warmly welcome our new faculty member, Professor Jonas Peters. He was appointed by the ETH Board in September 2022 and took up his position on 1 April 2023.

Corinne Emmenegger successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Statistical machine learning for complex data". Congratulations!

Meta Lina Spohn successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "On missing value imputation and treatment effect estimation on network data". Congratulations!

Jeffrey Näf successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Distributional prediction, missing values, and tree ensembles". Congratulations!

An-phi Nguyen successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Interpretable machine learning: definitions, methods and applications to computational biology". Congratulations!

Jinzhou Li successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Error-controlled statistical learning and topics in causality". Congratulations!

Drago Plecko successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "From statistical to causal inference in fair machine learning and intensive care medicine". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Bühlmann has been elected President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) by its members.

Last Friday, the students of the Master's programmes in Mathematics, Statistics as well as Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) celebrated their graduation. Congratulations to all on the successful completion of their studies!

Yulia Kulagina successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Mixture models, theory with application to species richness, clustering, classification and all that jazz". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer was elected International Memer of the National Academy of Sciences.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Bühlmann has been elected to the Leopoldina, Germany's National Academy of Sciences.

Nicolas Bennett successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Enabling external validation for machine learning applications using intensive care data". Congratulations!

Leonard Henckel successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Graphical tools for efficient causal effect estimation". Congratulations!

懒猴米歇尔成功通过他的口腔博士thesis examination entitled: "Distributional metrics in computational statistics". Congratulations!

他口头doctora DomagojĆevid成功通过l thesis examination entitled: "Confounding adjustment for causal inference". Congratulations!

The 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize was awarded to Marloes Maathuis at the ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague. Congratulations!

We are very pleased to announce that Sara van de Geer will deliver the Tukey Lecture at the Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics.

Claude Renaux successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Hierarchical testing and inference for groups or single covariates in high-dimensional statistics". Congratulations!

We are pleased to announce that Professor Marloes Maathuis has become an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

Peter Hinz successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "An analysis of the piece-wise affine structure of ReLU feed-forward neural networks". Congratulations!

Three Department members will be represented at this year's European Congress of Mathematics (8ECM): Peter Bühlmann as Plenary Speaker, Emmanuel Kowalski as Invited Speaker, and Joaquim Serra to be presented with an EMS Prize.

Francesco Ortelli successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Oracle results for total variation regularization". Congratulations!

Last Friday, the graduates of the Mathematics, Statistics as well as the Computational Science and Engeneering (CSE) Master's degree programmes celebrated their successful graduation. We wish them all the best for the future!

Solt Kovács successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Change point detection algorithms and methodology for large-scale data". Congratulations!

To the surprise of experts in the field, a postdoctoral statistician has solved one of the most important problems in high-dimensional convex geometry.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Marloes Maathuis has delivered the Breiman Lecture at the 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020).

At yesterday's ceremony, the graduates of the Mathematics, Statistics as well as the Computational Science and Engeneering (CSE) degree programmes celebrated their successful graduation. We wish them all the best for the future!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer was elected to the Academia Europaea.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Fadoua Balabdaoui was appointed Adjunct Professor at the meeting of the ETH Board in September 2020.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer has delivered the Kálmán Lecture at the 2020 SFB Colloquium.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Martin Mächler was appointed Adjunct Professor at the meeting of the ETH Board in May 2020.

We are very pleased to announce that Professor Marloes Maathuis has been awarded the 2020 Van Dantzig Award. This prize is considered the highest Dutch award in statistics and operations research and is awarded once every five years.

Marco Eigenmann successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Improving and assessing causal inference algorithms for DAGs". Congratulations!

The student association VSETH has awarded the 2019 Golden Owl to Dr Jan Ernest, lecturer at the Department of Mathematics.

Niklas Pfister successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Intervention stability in statistics: benefiting from causality". Congratulations!

Mads Bisgaard, Matthew Kwan and Dominik Rothenhäusler have been awarded an ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses. Congratulations!

Andreas Elsener successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Regularized empirical risk minimization under missing observations". Congratulations!

Britta Velten successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Multivariate methods for heterogeneous high-dimensional data in genome biology". Congratulations!

Intelligent data science approaches are changing science, the economy and society. In a new interdisciplinary initiative, ETH researchers from the fields of mathematics, computer science and information technology are therefore increasingly dedicating themselves to the foundations of data science.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Bühlmann will deliver the 2019 Challis Lectures organized by the Statistics division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Florida.

Christina Heinze-Deml successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Computational causality and learning from partitioned data". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer will deliver the 2018 Markov Lecture at the INFORMS annual meeting in Phoenix.

Shu Li successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Estimating causal effects from time series". Congratulations!

The Royal Statistical Society has awarded the 2018 Guy Medal in Silver to Professor Peter Bühlmann for his highly-cited paper "Stability selection", among other contributions.

The Department warmly congratulates Dr Matthias Kirchner and Dr Jana Janková who were awarded an ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Bühlmann will deliver the 2018 Neyman Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

Gian Thanei successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Computationally efficient inference for large-scale data". Congratulations!

Dominik Rothenhäusler successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Causal models for heterogeneous data". Congratulations!

Emilija Perkovic successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Graphical characterizations of adjustment sets". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Peter Bühlmann and Rahul Pandharipande are two out of ten ETH Zurich researchers that have receive a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their projects are funded with around 2 to 3 million Euro each.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer has been appointed as a member of the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee.

Professors Sara van de Geer and Peter Bühlmann have been selected to the list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2017" published by Clarivate Analytics.

Sylvain Robert successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Ensemble Kalman particle filters for high-dimensional data assimilation". Congratulations!

Benjamin Stucky successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Asymptotic confidence regions and sharp oracle results under structured sparsity". Congratulations!

Jana Janková successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Asymptotic inference in sparse high-dimensional models". Congratulations!

"Rock-paper-scissors: Beat the Statistics Machine!" This is the challenge that two statisticians are throwing open to visitors at this year's Scientifica event.

Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the IMS, has elected Professor Marloes Maathuis as a 2017 IMS Fellow.

The Université catholique de Louvain has awarded Professor Peter Bühlmann with the Doctor Honoris Causa.

Professors Habib Ammari and Peter Bühlmann have been selected to the list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2016" published by Clarivate Analytics.

The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam has awarded the 2016 Van Wijngaarden Award to Professor Sara van de Geer.

Laura Buzdugan successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Assessing statistical significance in genome wide association studies". Congratulations!

Jan欧内斯特successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Causal inference in semiparametric and nonparametric structural equation models". Congratulations!

Ruben Dezeure successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Statistical inference in high-dimensional models". Congratulations!

Preetam Nandy successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Causal learning from high-dimensional observational data". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Nicolai Meinshausen has received the 2016 COPSS Presidents' Award.

The world's largest association for statisticians, the ASA, has appointed Professor Peter Bühlmann as a Fellow.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Marloes Maathuis was appointed full professor at the meeting of the ETH Board in July 2016.

The Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the IMS, has appointed Professor Nicolai Meinshausen as a Fellow.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer will deliver the 2016 Wald Memorial Lectures at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Toronto.

Alan Muro successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Penalized least squares and quadratic forms". Congratulations!

Chenchen Zhu successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "High throughput approaches to study molecular pathways from genotype to phenotype". Congratulations!

Anna Drewek successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Statistical inference on pathogen entry into human cells". Congratulations!

His Majesty the King of the Netherlands appointed Sara van de Geer to Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau for her outstanding contributions to mathematics and statistics.

Christopher Nowzohour successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Estimating causal networks from multivariate observational data". Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Nicolai Meinshausen will deliver the Medallion Lecture entitled: "Causal discovery with confidence using invariance principles"at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Seattle starting on 8 August 2015.

我们很高兴宣布萨拉范教授de Geer will be President of the Bernoully Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability from 30 July 2015.

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Peter Bühlmann will be forum lecturer at the European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) in Amsterdam starting on 6 July 2015.

We are delightedto announce that Prof. Sara van de Geer will deliver the Conférence Lucien Le Cam 2015 at the 47èmes Journées de Statistique de la SFdS in Lille.

Jacopo Mandozzi successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Hierarchical and sequentially rejective testing methods for high-dimensional regression with correlated variables". Congratulations!

美国教授提出了统计学家的宠物er J. Bickel for the honorary doctorate of the ETH Zurich. He was honored for his pioneering work on semiparametric and high-dimensional statistics and on resampling methods for statistical inference.

The colloquium: "From robust to high-dimensional statistics: 50 years of statistics at ETH Zurich" celebrates the 50-year anniversary of Statistics at ETH Zurich. It is organized by the Seminar for Statistics, has started today and will last until 25 November 2014.

On 12 November, Prof. Hans-Rudolf Künsch gave his farewell lecture entitled: "Welch ein Zufall!". He has been professor at the D-MATH since October 1983.

Christian Kerkhoff successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Statistical methods to analyze climate model output". Congratulations!

Peter Bühlmann, Nicolai Meinshausen and Wendelin Werner have been selected to the list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2014" published by Thomson Reuters.

Patric Müller successfully successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "L1-Regularization for non-linear models". Congratulations!

On 26 March, Prof. Nicolai Meinshausen and Prof. Benjamin Sudakov gave their inaugural lectures.