Claudia Solis Lemus

Claudia Solis-Lemus grew up in Mexico City, where she completed her undergraduate work at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico in Actuarial Sciences and Applied Mathematics. Claudia received her Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and then a postdoc with the Department of Botany. After that, she completed a postdoc at Emory University in the Department of Human Genetics. Now, she is an assistant professor in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Plant Pathology working on the development of statistical models to answer biological questions, balancing biological interpretability, theoretical guarantees, and computational tractability. In particular, her research deals with modern big data which are highly interconnected through graphical structures.