Aad van der Vaart

Adrianus Willem "Aad" van der Vaart (born 12 July 1959) is a Dutch professor of Stochastics at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University.

Aad van der Vaart

Life

Van der Vaart was born in Vlaardingen on 12 July 1959.[1] He earned his PhD at Leiden University in 1987 with a thesis titled: "Statistical estimation in large parameter spaces".[1] He became a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1997.[2] He was appointed as professor of Stochastics at Leiden University in 2012.[1]

Honours

Van der Vaart was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[3] In 2010 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India.[4] He was the recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2012.[5] In 2015 he was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2.5 million euro grant.[6] He was awarded the prize for his research on mathematical models that help track genes for cancer research.[7] On being awarded the prize Van der Vaart stated that 2.5 million euro was too much, claiming he could have 35 postdoctoral and Ph.D. students work with the grant.[8]

In June 2019 van der Vaart was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[2]

References
  1. "Adrianus Willem van der Vaart (Aad)" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016.
  2. "Statistician Aad van der Vaart Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion". Leiden University. 17 June 2019.
  3. "Aad van der Vaart". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020.
  4. Van der Vaart, Aad (2010). "Bayesian Regularization". In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM 2010) (In 4 Volumes) Vol. I: Plenary Lectures and Ceremonies Vols. II–IV: Invited Lectures. pp. 2370–2385. doi:10.1142/9789814324359_0150. ISBN 978-981-4324-30-4.
  5. Arnout Jaspers (26 October 2012). "Europese subsidie voor statistiek in grote, rommelige datasets" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  6. "NWO-Spinozapremies voor René Janssen, Birgit Meyer, Aad van der Vaart en Cisca Wijmenga" (in Dutch). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  7. "Spinozapremie voor statisticus Aad van der Vaart van Universiteit Leiden" (in Dutch). Omroep West. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  8. "Spinozapremie 2015 voor vier wetenschappers" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.


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