Rina Foygel Barber (known until 2012 as Rina Foygel) is an American statistician whose research includes works on the Bayesian statistics of graphical models, false discovery rates, and

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. She is the Louis Block Professor of statistics at the

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. Barber taught mathematics at the

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from 2005 to 2007. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2012. Her dissertation, ''Prediction and model selection for high-dimensional data with sparse or low-rank structure'', was jointly supervised by Mathias Drton and Nathan Srebro. After postdoctoral research at

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with

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, she returned to the University of Chicago as a faculty member. She won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2016. In 2017 the

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gave her their Tweedie New Researcher Award "for groundbreaking contributions in high-dimensional statistics, including the identifiability of graphical models, low-rank matrix estimation, and false discovery rate theory ... nddevelopment of the knockoff filter for controlled variable selection".

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