Profile

Dr. Caroline Uhler is a faculty member at MIT with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). Her research lies at the intersection of mathematical statistics and computational biology, with a focus on graphical models, causal inference, algebraic statistics, gene regulatory networks, and geometric models of chromosome organization. She holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, along with degrees in Mathematics, Biology, and Mathematics Education. Dr. Uhler is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and the recipient of several prestigious honors, including a Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Humboldt Foundation, and the START Award from the Austrian Science Fund.