Tamara Broderick

Education and early career

Broderick is from Parma Heights, Ohio.[3] She attended Laurel School and graduated in 2003.[4] Whilst at high school she took part in the inaugural Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women's Technology Program.[5] She studied mathematics at Princeton University, earning a bachelor's degree in 2007.[3] She was a Marshall scholar, allowing her to pursue graduate research at the University of Cambridge.[3] She was a runner-up in the Association for Women in Mathematics Alice T. Shafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics.[3][6] She was co-president of the Princeton Math Club and organised a competition for high school maths teams.[3] She won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for the highest academic average at Princeton University.[7] During her undergraduate degree, Broderick working on dark matter haloes with Rachel Mandelbaum.[8] Broderick moved to the United Kingdom for her graduate studies, earning a Master of Advanced Studies for completing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge in 2009.[9][10] Her Master's thesis looked at the Nomon selection method, improving the efficiency of communications.[11][12] She returned to America in 2009, joining University of California, Berkeley for her Master's and PhD.[10] Her graduate research was supported by the Berkeley Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Fellowship.[7] Her PhD thesis Clusters and features from combinatorial stochastic processes looked at clustering and speeding up the analysis of large, streaming data sets.[13][2] In 2013 she was selected for the Berkeley EECS Rising Stars conference.[14]

Research and career

Broderick joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 2015.[14] She is interested in Bayesian statistics and Graphical models.[15] She was the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Grant and International Society for Bayesian Analysis Lifetime Members Junior Researcher Award.[16] She was awarded an Army Research Office young investigator program award to investigate machine-learning to quantify uncertainty in data analysis.[17] Broderick is also Alfred P. Sloan Foundation scholar.[18][19][20][21]

Academic service

In 2018, Broderick spoke at the Harvard University Institute for Applied Computational Science Women in Data Science conference.[22] She spoke about Bayesian inference at the 2018 International Conference on Machine Learning.[23] She led a three-day Masterclass on machine learning at University College London in June 2018.[24][25] Broderick is a scientific advisor for AI.Reverie and WiML (Women in Machine Learning).[26][27] She has developed a high-school level introduction to machine learning with the Women's Technology Program (WTP).[28] Software she has developed is available on her website.[29]

Awards and honors

Broderick was awarded the Evelyn Fix Memorial Medal and Citation and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Savage Award for her doctoral thesis.[30][31] She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to scale her machine learning techniques.[32][28]

References
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  2. Tamara Broderick at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Alumni Profile: Tamara Broderick" (PDF). princeton.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  4. "Laurel School | Alumnae | Distinguished Alumna Award Recipients". laurelschool.org. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  5. "Woman in technology". news.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  6. "January 2007 Prizes and Awards" (PDF). MAA. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  7. "MIT School of Engineering | » Tamara Broderick". engineering.mit.edu. MIT Engineering. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  8. Brinkmann, Jonathan; Seljak, Uroš; Broderick, Tamara; Hirata, Christopher M.; Mandelbaum, Rachel (2006). "Ellipticity of dark matter haloes with galaxy–galaxy weak lensing". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 370 (2): 1008–1024. arXiv:astro-ph/0507108. Bibcode:2006MNRAS.370.1008M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10539.x. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 238069.
  9. Cambridge, research in physics from the University of; California, an MS in computer science from the University of; uncertainty, Berkeley Sessions Bayesian machine learning: Quantifying; Learning, robustness at scale Machine; star, Data Science Location: 1A 06/07 Level: Intermediate Secondary topics: Hardcore Data Science Tamara BroderickAverage. "Speaker: Tamara Broderick: Big data conference: Strata Data Conference, September 25 - 28, 2017, New York, NY". conferences.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  10. "Speaker: Tamara Broderick: Big data conference: Strata Data Conference, September 25 - 28, 2017, New York, NY". conferences.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  11. "Nomon: Efficient communication with a single switch" (PDF). MIT. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  12. "Tamara Broderick". tamarabroderick.com. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  13. Broderick, Tamara Ann (2014). Clusters and Features from Combinatorial Stochastic Processes (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 919405382.
  14. "Rising Stars in EECS | UC Berkeley". eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  15. "Speakers". machine-intelligence-summit.com. Machine Intelligence Summit. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  16. "Google Faculty Research Awards 2016" (PDF). services.google.com. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  17. "Tamara Broderick receives prestigious Army Research Office award | MIT EECS". eecs.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  18. "Two EECS faculty members receive 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships | MIT EECS". eecs.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  19. "2018 Fellows". sloan.org. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  20. "American Mathematical Society". ams.org. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  21. "Massachusetts Institute of Technology". sloan.org. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  22. Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science, Women in Data Science (2018): Tamara Broderick, MIT, retrieved 2018-12-27
  23. Steven Van Vaerenbergh, Tamara Broderick: Variational Bayes and Beyond: Bayesian Inference for Big Data (ICML 2018 tutorial), retrieved 2018-12-27
  24. "CSML Masterclass with Tamara Broderick". cs.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  25. "CSML Masterclass". tamarabroderick.com. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  26. "AI.Reverie". AI. Reverie. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  27. "Tamara Broderick, PhD". Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  28. "NSF Award Search: Award#1750286 - CAREER: Robust, scalable, reliable machine learning". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  29. "Tamara Broderick". tamarabroderick.com. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  30. "Student Departmental Awards | Department of Statistics". statistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  31. "Savage Award | International Society for Bayesian Analysis". Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  32. "News | Tamara Broderick receives 2018 NSF CAREER Award". stat.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
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