Weijie Su, an assistant professor in Wharton’s statistics and data science department and in the department of computer and information science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received the inaugural Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Early Career Prize in Data Science, a  prestigious recognition for researchers in the area of data science and artificial intelligence.

SIAM’s Early Career Prize will be awarded every two years to an outstanding early career researcher in the field of data science for distinguished contributions to the field. The award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions to the mathematical, statistical, and computational foundations of data science. 

Dr. Su is a co-director of Penn Research in Machine Learning. Before joining Penn in summer 2016, he obtained his PhD from Stanford University. He received a bachelor’s degree from Peking University in 2011. Dr. Su researches statistical machine learning, deep learning theory, high-dimensional statistics, privacy-preserving data analysis, optimization, and large-scale multiple testing.