Grace Wahba is the I. J. Schoenberg-Hilldale Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Education
She was educated at Cornell (Bachelor 1956), University of Maryland, College Park (Master of Arts 1962) and Stanford (Doctor of Philosophy 1966), and worked in industry for several years before receiving her doctorate in 1966 and settling in Madison in 1967.
Career
She is a pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data. Best known for the development of generalized cross-validation and "Wahba"s problem", she has developed methods with applications in demographic studies, machine learning, deoxyribonucleic acid microarrays, risk modeling, medical imaging, and climate prediction. She is the author of Spline Models for Observational Data.
She was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2000 and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Chicago in 2007.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences.