Veronika Rockova

Veronika Rockova is the Bruce Lindsay Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in the Wallman Society of Fellows and the James S. Kemper Faculty Scholar at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. She previously completed postdoctoral training in statistics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Her research bridges statistics and machine learning, focusing on decision-centric methodologies for high-dimensional data analysis. Key areas include Bayesian computation, hierarchical modeling, and applications in healthcare analytics and computational medicine.

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2020)
• COPPS Emerging Leader Award (2023)

She serves as associate editor for the Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and teaches a course on Big Data at Booth.