Elizaveta Levina

Elizaveta (Liza) Levina is a Russian and American mathematical statistician.[1] She is the Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan,[2] and is known for her work in high-dimensional statistics, including covariance estimation, graphical models, statistical network analysis, and nonparametric statistics.[3]

Academic biography

Levina completed her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University in Russia in 1994. After earning a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Utah in 1997, she completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2002 from the University of California, Berkeley.[3] Her dissertation, supervised by Peter J. Bickel, was Statistical Issues in Texture Analysis.[4]

Levina joined the faculty of Department of Statistics at University of Michigan after completing her Ph.D. in 2002.[2] She was promoted to associate professor in 2009[3] and to full professor in 2014.[5] She has been serving as the department's PhD program director since 2012 and also associate chair since 2014. She is also affiliated faculty at the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.[6]

Recognition

Levina received the American Statistical Association Gottfried E. Noether Young Scholar Award in 2010 for her contributions to nonparametric statistics.[7]

She was elected to the International Statistical Institute in 2011.[1] In 2016, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association[8] and as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) [9].

She was awarded the Vijay Nair Collegiate Professorship in 2017.[10]

She was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, speaking in the section on Probability and Statistics.[11] She has been chosen as a 2019 Medallion Lecturer for the IMS.[12]

Professor Liza Levina is a “Thomson-ISI highly cited” researcher.[13]

She received University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award[14] in 2019. This honor is awarded university-wide to five senior faculty members annually.

Family

Levina's husband, Edward Ionides, is also a professor of statistics at the University of Michigan.[15][16] They have three children.[17]

gollark: Um. Wow. Apparently things happened.
gollark: Hmm, that doesn't sound particularly high.
gollark: It's ridiculously subjective.
gollark: Trying to measure people based on "personal qualities" seems even worse.
gollark: Astrophysics is studying space things.

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  5. Promotion recommendation to full professor (PDF), University of Michigan Statistics, 2015, retrieved 2018-11-09
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  7. "ASA Awards recognize Sen, Levina, Friedman, Kou" (PDF), IMS members’ news, IMS Bulletin, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 39 (8): 3, October 2010, retrieved 2018-08-02
  8. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-11
  9. Liza Levina becomes an IMS Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, May 3, 2016, retrieved 2019-02-01
  10. Professor Liza Levina awarded Vijay Nair Collegiate Professorship, University of Michigan Statistics, September 1, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-22
  11. "Speakers", ICM 2018, archived from the original on 2017-12-07, retrieved 2018-02-24
  12. Dowling, Moira (July 21, 2017), Liza Levina, PhD, Chosen IMS Medallion Lecturer in 2019, Michigan Institute for Data Science, retrieved 2017-11-11
  13. "Levina and Zhu are among Highly Cited Researchers | U-M LSA Department of Statistics".
  14. University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards, retrieved 2020-03-05
  15. Fan, Jianqing; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wu, Jeff, C.F. Selected works of Peter J. Bickel. Springer. pp. xl. ISBN 9781461455431.
  16. Edward Ionides Homepage, retrieved 2018-12-18
  17. Liza Levina Homepage -- Personal, retrieved 2018-12-18
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