Caroline Uhler is a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she directs the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, and she is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT.
She holds an MSc in mathematics, a BSc in biology, and an MEd all from the University of Zurich. She obtained her PhD in statistics from UC Berkeley in 2011 and then spent three years as an assistant professor at IST Austria before joining MIT in 2015.
She is a SIAM Fellow, a Fellow of the IMS, a Sloan Research Fellow, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She received various awards including an NIH New Innovator Award, a Simons Investigator Award, and an NSF Career Award. Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and genomics, with a particular focus on causal inference, representation learning, and gene regulation.
Conflicts of interest disclosure:
Uhler serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Focal Biosciences, Immunai, and Relation Therapeutics. In addition, Uhler may receive honoraria and reimbursements for some speaking engagements.