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Dear Colleagues, 

The ASA Statistical Learning and Data Science Section is pleased to announce its next webinar on July 31, featured by Prof. Po-Ling Loh from University of Cambridge.   Prof. Loh will kindly offer career advice for early-career researchers.  This webinar will be highly interactive.  Please bring your questions.  Hope to see you there!  

Title:                        Advice for early-career researchers

Speakers:               Prof. Po-Ling Loh, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge

Date and Time:      July 31, 2025, 11:00am to 12:30 pm Eastern Time

Registration Link:  ASA SLDS Webinar Registration Link [eventbrite.com] 

Abstract:                This seminar will cover a wide range of topics of particular interest to early-career researchers in statistics. It is intended to be highly interactive, with the specific focus of the seminar influenced by the interests of the audience (so please bring your questions!). Possible topics include advising/hiring students, starting and maintaining collaborations, applying for grants, reviewing papers, teaching, mentorship, time management, coping, and professional networking.

Presenter:              Po-Ling Loh received her PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2014.  From 2014-2016, she was an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2016-2018, she was an Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UW-Madison, and from2019-2020, she was an Associate Professor of Statistics at UW-Madison and a Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics at Columbia University. She began her appointment in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge in 2021, where she is currently a Professor of Statistics and a Fellow of St. John's College. Po-Ling's current research interests include high-dimensional statistics, robustness, and differential privacy. She is an IMS Fellow and a recipient of a NSF CAREER Award, ARO Young Investigator Award, IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award, Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award, Philip Leverhulme Prize, Ethel Newbold Prize, and a Hertz Fellowship.