Rachel Ward
Professor,
University of Texas at Austin
Rachel Ward is an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin and has been a member of the faculty since 2011. She is currently a visiting research scientist at Facebook AI Research. She received a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at Princeton in 2009 and was a Courant Instructor at the Courant Institute, NYU, from 2009-2011. Her research interests span signal processing, machine learning, and optimization. She has received the Sloan research fellowship, NSF CAREER award, and the 2016 IMA prize in mathematics and its applications.