Rachel Ward

W. A. “Tex” Moncrief Distinguished Professor in Computational Engineering and Sciences—Data Science, and Professor of Mathematics, UT Austin.Member, UT Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning

Sept. 2023 update: I am currently on leave at Microsoft Research 


Research interests: applied harmonic analysis, probability, optimization, data science, machine learning

Short CV (updated Jan 2022).


My papers can be found on google scholar   


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I am on the editorial board of Foundations of Computational Mathematics,  SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, and Graduate Studies in Mathematics.