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Ann Lee is a Professor and Co-Director of the Ph.D. Program in the Department of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University, with a joint appointment in the Machine Learning Department. She has been at CMU since 2005, after serving as the J.W. Gibbs Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Yale University. Her academic journey began with a PhD in Physics from Brown University in 2002, preceded by BSc and MSc degrees in Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
Dr. Lee's educational background includes:
- PhD in Physics, Brown University
- MSc/BSc in Engineering Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Her research focuses on developing statistical methodology for complex data and problems in the physical sciences, with particular emphasis on trust-worthy scientific inference and reliable uncertainty quantification. She works at the intersection of classical statistics and machine learning, developing methods for simulation-based inference and experimental design. Dr. Lee is especially interested in likelihood-free inference, calibrated probabilistic forecasting, and interpretable diagnostics of generative models, with applications in astronomy and hurricane intensity guidance involving satellite imagery and large surveys.
Dr. Lee co-founded the STAMPS (STAtistical Methods for the Physical Sciences) research group with Mikael Kuusela in 2018, which is transitioning to a CMU Research Center in Fall 2024. The group hosts public colloquia-style webinars and weekly research meetings for students and faculty at CMU and UPitt.
Her notable scientific contributions have been recognized through:
- Her paper "Detecting Distributional Differences in Labeled Sequence Data with Application to Tropical Cyclone Satellite Imagery" being selected for The Best of AOAS session at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meeting
- Her student Luca Masserano winning the ASA Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meeting
- Her student Alex Shen winning a Poster Award at the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop, NeurIPS 2023
Dr. Lee has advised numerous PhD students to completion, with research spanning statistical machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, and applications in physical sciences. She has secured research funding supporting her work on statistical methods for physical sciences and has collaborated extensively with researchers across disciplines. Her current research projects focus on advancing likelihood-free inference methods and applying them to challenging problems in climate science and astronomy.
She leads the STAMPS research group, which is becoming a CMU Research Center in Fall 2024, and organizes workshops including the PHYSTAT-SBI workshop on "Simulation Based Inference in Fundamental Physics" and the Hammers & Nails workshop on "Frontiers in Machine Learning in Cosmology, Astro & Particle Physics."
