Dr. Rina Foygel Barber

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Biography

Rina Foygel Barber is a Louis Block Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on developing and analyzing estimation and inference methods for structured high-dimensional data problems. She specializes in sparse regression, sparse nonparametric models, and low-rank models. Her work extends to the development of methods for false discovery rate control in settings with undersampled data and misspecified models, as well as distribution-free inference in situations where data distribution is unknown. In addition to her theoretical contributions, she collaborates on modeling and optimization problems related to image reconstruction and medical imaging.

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