University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Faculty and Staff

Faculty focus: Jessi Cisewski-Kehe and the search for other worlds

Sixteen years ago, Assistant Professor Jessi Cisewski-Kehe worked as an actuary at Allstate Insurance Company. Today, she is a leading researcher in the field of astrostatistics, helping to reveal undiscovered planets orbiting distant stars. The common thread in her journey from actuary to assistant professor: a passion for leveraging statistical methods to solve real problems. …