Schmidt Center Director Caroline Uhler named Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is pleased to announce that Center Director Caroline Uhler has been named the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering, effective July 1, 2024 for a five-year term. This MIT School of Engineering Professorship is awarded to an outstanding faculty member who is recognized as a leader and innovator in the field of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 

Caroline holds BSc degrees in math and biology, an MSc in mathematics, and an MEd in mathematics education from the University of Zurich (years spanning 2004-7), and a PhD in statistics from UC Berkeley (2011). Before joining MIT as a faculty member in 2015, she spent three years as an assistant professor at IST Austria. 

She is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). She is also affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), the The Statistics and Data Science Center, and the Operations Research Center (ORC). Additionally, Caroline is a core institute member of the Broad Institute.

Caroline’s research focuses on machine learning methods for integrating and translating between vastly different data modalities and inferring causal or regulatory relationships from such data. She is particularly interested in using these methods to gain mechanistic insights into the link between genome packing and regulation in health and disease.

She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and is the recipient of a Simons Investigator Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and an NSF Career Award. Recently, she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2024, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Class of 2023.