Grace Wahba
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Grace Wahba (b. August 3, 1934) is the I. J. Schoenberg Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data, where the problem is to balance a smooth fit against loss of information. Best known for the Generalized Cross Validation Technique and "Wahba's problem", she and her students have developed methods with application in demographic studies, medical imaging, and climate prediction. Educated at Cornell (B.A. 1956), University of Maryland, College Park (M.A. 1962) and Stanford (Ph.D. 1966), she worked in industry for several years before receiving her doctorate in 1966 and settling in Madison in 1967. She is the author of Spline Models for Observational Data, SIAM, 1990.
