FWIMD 2021

Dr. Cynthia Rudin is a professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistical Science at Duke University, and directs the Prediction Analysis Lab, whose main focus is in interpretable machine learning. She is also an associate director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI). Previously, Prof. Rudin held positions at MIT, Columbia, and NYU. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University at Buffalo, and a PhD from Princeton University. She is a three-time winner of the INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award, was named as one of the "Top 40 Under 40" by Poets and Quants in 2015, and was named by Businessinsider.com as one of the 12 most impressive professors at MIT in 2015. She is past chair of both the INFORMS Data Mining Section and the Statistical Learning and Data Science section of the American Statistical Association. She has also served on committees for DARPA, the National Institute of Justice, and AAAI. She has served on three committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, including the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, the Committee on Law and Justice, and the Committee on Analytic Research Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She is a Thomas Langford Lecturer at Duke University during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Dr. Stephen C. Locke serves as the Interim Chair of Mathematical Sciences. He earned his B.Math. and M.Math. from the University of Waterloo in Canada. As an undergraduate at UW, he was a member of the 1974 winning team on the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. His Ph.D. in Combinatorics and Optimization in 1982 was also earned at the University of Waterloo. In 1981, Dr. Locke was hired by FAU as an Assistant Professor, and in 1993 he was promoted to Professor. He served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics from 2000 to 2003 and as Associate Chair for a total of 20 years or more. Dr. Locke has over 40 publications in Graph Theory and has recently published in Combinatorial Game Theory. He has had three Ph.D. students graduate. He is a regular member of the department's problem-solving group. Dr. Locke is a Rokudan in Judo, a Godan in Ju-Jitsu, and plays tournament bridge