Aad van der Vaart
Adrianus Willem "Aad" van der Vaart (born 12 July 1959) is a Dutch professor of Stochastics at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University.
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Career
Van der Vaart was born in Vlaardingen. He earned his PhD at Leiden University in 1987. Before starting at Leiden van der Vaart was a professor at the VU University Amsterdam.[1] He has been member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009.[2]
Honors
In 2010 he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Hyderabad.[3] In 2015 he was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2.5 million euro grant.[4] He was awarded the prize for his research on mathematical models that help track genes for cancer research.[5] On being awarded the prize Van der Vaart stated that 2.5 million euro was too much, claiming he could have 35 postdoctoral and Ph.D. students work with the grant.[6]
He was also the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant in 2012.[7]
In June 2019, Aad van der Vaart was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion[8].
References
- Adrianus Willem van der Vaart at the "Leiden Faculty from 1575" website
- "Aad van der Vaart" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- Van der Vaart, Aad (2010). "Bayesian Regularization". In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM 2010) (In 4 Volumes) Vol. I: Plenary Lectures and Ceremonies Vols. II–IV: Invited Lectures. pp. 2370–2385. doi:10.1142/9789814324359_0150. ISBN 978-981-4324-30-4.
- "NWO-Spinozapremies voor René Janssen, Birgit Meyer, Aad van der Vaart en Cisca Wijmenga" (in Dutch). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- "Spinozapremie voor statisticus Aad van der Vaart van Universiteit Leiden" (in Dutch). Omroep West. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- "Spinozapremie 2015 voor vier wetenschappers" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- Arnout Jaspers (26 October 2012). "Europese subsidie voor statistiek in grote, rommelige datasets" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- "Statistician Aad van der Vaart Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion". Retrieved 2019-07-08.