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

Career

Van der Vaart was born in Vlaardingen. He earned his PhD at Leiden University in 1987. Before starting at Leiden van der Vaart was a professor at the VU University Amsterdam.[1] He has been member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009.[2]

Honors

In 2010 he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Hyderabad.[3] In 2015 he was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2.5 million euro grant.[4] He was awarded the prize for his research on mathematical models that help track genes for cancer research.[5] 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.[6]

He was also the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant in 2012.[7]

In June 2019, Aad van der Vaart was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion[8].

References
  1. Adrianus Willem van der Vaart at the "Leiden Faculty from 1575" website
  2. "Aad van der Vaart" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  3. 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.
  4. "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.
  5. "Spinozapremie voor statisticus Aad van der Vaart van Universiteit Leiden" (in Dutch). Omroep West. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  6. "Spinozapremie 2015 voor vier wetenschappers" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  7. Arnout Jaspers (26 October 2012). "Europese subsidie voor statistiek in grote, rommelige datasets" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  8. "Statistician Aad van der Vaart Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion". Retrieved 2019-07-08.


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