S´ebastienRoch - Vita - October 27, 2020 1 S´ebastien Roch Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin{Madison 480 Lincoln Dr., Madison, WI 53706 [email protected] Employment Professor (with tenure), Department of Mathematics, UW{Madison (2016-) - Other affiliations: Affiliate Faculty, Department of Statistics, UW{Madison; Member, Insti- tute for Foundations of Data Science (NSF TRIPODS Phase II) Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Mathematics, UW{Madison (2013-) Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UW{Madison (2012-2013) Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA (2009-2012) - Other affiliations: Core Member, UCLA Interdepartmental Program in Bioinformatics Post-Doctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA (2008-2009) Post-Doctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research, Theory Group, Redmond, WA (2007-2008) Education Ph.D., Statistics, UC Berkeley (2007) M.Sc.A., Applied Mathematics, Polytechnique de Montr´eal,Canada (2003) B.Eng., Engineering Physics, Polytechnique de Montr´eal,Canada (2002) Dipl^omed'Ing´enieur[Bachelor of Engineering], Ecole Polytechnique, France (2001) Honors Vilas Associates Award (2019-2021) Best Paper Award at RECOMB 2018 2018 Simons Fellow in Mathematics Honorable Mention { 2018 Marcus W. Feldman Prize in Theoretical Population Biology NSF CAREER Award (2012-2017) Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (2014, 2017) Invited Address, AMS Central Fall Sectional Meeting (2015) Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2012-2014) S´ebastienRoch - Vita - October 27, 2020 2 Funding Current NSF grant DMS-2023239 (2020-2025), \TRIPODS: Institute for Foundations of Data Sci- ence," co-PI, $4,583,262 (overall institute budget: $12.5 million) Vilas Associates Award (2019-2021) NSF grant DMS-1916378 (2019-2022), \Scalable Statistical Inference in Small-World Net- works," PI, $299,999 NSF grant DMS-1902892 (2019-2022), \Scalable Model-Based Reconstruction of Network Evolution," co-PI, $724,239 NSF grant CCF-1740707 (2017-2021), \TRIPODS: Institute for Foundations of Data Sci- ence," co-PI, $1,499,523 Past NSF grant DMS-1614242 (2016-2020), \Probability Questions in Phylogenetics," PI, $194,000 Simons Fellowship (2018-2019) SQuaRE on \Mathematical modeling of adaptive biological networks," American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), jointly with Karen Alim, Eleni Katifori, Marcus Roper (2015-2016) NSF grant DMS-1149312 (2012-2017), \CAREER: Phylogenomics - New Computational Methods through Stochastic Modeling and Analysis," PI, $444,405 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2012-2014) NSF grant DMS-1007144 (2010-2013), \Probabilistic Techniques in Mathematical Phyloge- netics," PI, $171,000 Academic Visits Fall 2018-Spring 2019: Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, Madison, WI Spring 2017: Research member, MSRI, Berkeley Spring 2014: Long-term visitor, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley Fall 2011: Program organizer, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA Fall 2009: Visiting scholar, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA September 2007: Visitor, Phylogenetics Programme, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK Summer 2006: Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA Summer 2005: Visitor, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard Summer 2004: Visitor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT S´ebastienRoch - Vita - October 27, 2020 3 Professional Activities Boards Governing Board and Site Committee, Institute for Foundations of Data Science (TRIPODS Phase II), University of Washington/UW{Madison/UCSC/UChicago (2020-) Executive Committee, Institute for Foundations of Data Science (TRIPODS Phase I), UW{ Madison (2017-2020) Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Probability (2013-2018) Organizational Work Scientific Committee, 41st Midwest Probability Colloquium, Northwestern University (Oc- tober 2019) Co-organizer, Special Session on \Recent Trends in the Mathematics of Data," AMS Fall Central Sectional Meeting, UW{Madison (September 2019) Organizer, Invited Session on \Biomedical Applications of Stochastic Processes," 41st Con- ference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA) (July 2019) Organizing committee, Summer School on \Fundamentals of Data Analysis," Institute for Foundations of Data Science, UW{Madison (July 2018) Co-organizer, Special session on \Probability Theory," AMS Central Fall Sectional Meeting (October 2015) Co-organizer, Workshop on \Multiple Sequence Alignment," IPAM (January 2015) Co-organizer, Second reunion workshop on \High-Throughput Genomics," Lake Arrowhead, IPAM (June 2014) Co-organizer, First reunion workshop on \High-Throughput Genomics," Lake Arrowhead, IPAM (June 2013) Organizing committee, Long program on \Mathematical Approaches in High-Throughput Genomics," IPAM (Fall 2011) Chair, Workshop on \Evolutionary Genomics," IPAM (November 2011) Co-organizer, Tutorials on \High-Throughput Genomics," IPAM (September 2011) Co-organizer, Special session on \Probability and Related Fields," AMS Western Fall Sec- tional Meeting (October 2010) Co-organizer, Computational Aspects of Biological Information Workshop, Microsoft Re- search (December 2007) Organizer, Session on \Bioinformatics," INFORMS Annual Meeting (October 2008) Program Committees S´ebastienRoch - Vita - October 27, 2020 4 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO), 2019 Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), 2019 Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB), 2013-2016 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2009 Reviewer Journals: Algorithms for Molecular Biology, American Mathematical Monthly, Annals of Ap- plied Probability, Annals of Combinatorics, Annals of Probability, Annals of Statistics, Ap- plied Mathematics Letters, Bioinformatics, Biometrika, Computational Biology and Chem- istry, Electronic Communications in Probability, Electronic Journal in Probability, Genome Biology and Evolution, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinfor- matics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Journal of Applied Probability, Journal of Classification, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Nature Communications, PLOS ONE, PLOS Computational Biology, Random Structures and Algorithms, Science, SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry, SIAM Journal on Computing, SIAM Jour- nal on Discrete Mathematics, Soft Computing, Systematic Biology, Theoretical Population Biology. Conferences: ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), Algo- rithmic Learning Theory (ALT), Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), IEEE Sympo- sium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO), International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), International Workshop on Randomized Techniques in Computation (RANDOM), Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RE- COMB), Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI). University/Departmental Committees UW{Madison: served on Awards Committee, Budget Committee, Cluster Hire Search Com- mittee Chair, Colloquium Committee, Early Undergraduate Program Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Faculty Senate, Fundraising/Newsletter Committee, Graduate Admis- sions Committee, Graduate Program Committee, Hiring Committee, L&S Data Science Ma- jor Working Group, Data Science Major Program Committee, Salary Committee, Statistics Liaison, Undergraduate Advising Committee UCLA: served on Analysis Qualifying Exam Committee, Bioinformatics Interdepartmen- tal Program, Graduate Studies Committee, Graduate Admissions Committee, Mathemat- ics/Economics Interdepartmental Program, Program in Computing Committee, Staff Search Committee, UCLA Systems and Integrative Biology (SIB) Training Program S´ebastienRoch - Vita - October 27, 2020 5 Courses Taught UW{Madison Fall 2020: MATH 833 { Topics in the Theory of Probability (Graduate) Fall 2020: MATH 535 { Mathematical Methods in Data Science (Undergraduate) Spring 2020: MATH 535 { Mathematical Methods in Data Science (Undergraduate) Fall 2019: MATH 431 { Introduction to the Theory of Probability (Undergraduate) Fall 2019: 2×MATH 431 { Introduction to the Theory of Probability (Undergraduate) Spring 2018: MATH 734 { Theory of Probability II (Graduate) Fall 2017: MATH 833 { Topics in the Theory of Probability (Graduate) Fall 2017: MATH 431 { Introduction to the Theory of Probability (Undergraduate) Fall 2016: 2×MATH 632 { Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Undergraduate) Spring 2016: 2×MATH 632 { Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Undergraduate) Fall 2015: MATH 632 { Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Undergraduate) Spring 2015: MATH 632 { Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Undergraduate) Fall 2014: MATH 833 { Topics in the Theory of Probability (Graduate) Fall 2014: MATH 632 { Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Undergraduate) Fall 2013: MATH 331 { Introduction to Probability and Markov Chain modelling (Under- graduate) Fall 2013: MATH 632 { Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Undergraduate) Fall 2013: MATH 733 { Theory of Probability I (Graduate) Fall 2012: MATH 213 { Calculus and Introduction to Differential Equations