Rebecca Willett is an American statistician and computer scientist whose research involves machine learning, signal processing, and data science.
[1] Willett has a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, completed in 2005.
[2] Her research has included machine learning methods for the analysis of corn crop quality,[3] and weather patterns.
[4] She was named a SIAM Fellow in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to mathematical foundations of machine learning, large-scale data science, and computational imaging",[5] and an IEEE Fellow in 2022 "for contributions to the foundations of computational imaging and large-scale data science".
[6] In 2022, she was elected Vice Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Imaging Science (SIAM SIAG/IS).