Honorary Doctorate for Peter Bühlmann
The Université catholique de Louvain has awarded Professor Peter Bühlmann with the Doctor Honoris Causa.
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Vincent Blondel, Rector UCL, and Doctor Honoris Causa Peter Bühlmann
Peter Bühlmann has received the honorary doctor for his achievements in the fields of mathematical statistics, machine learning and high-dimensional data analysis. Furthermore, he has also "contributed to solving pertinent problems in the application of his fundamental research to the fields of biology and bio-medicine, in particular, in genetics and bioinformatics". The ceremony was part of the workshop on external pageData Sciencescall_made held in Louvain-la-Neuve.
Peter Bühlmann has been full professor at the Seminar for Statistics (SfS) since 2004 and Chair of the Department of Mathematics since 2013.