The 黑料吃瓜资源 (CSHL) Board of Trustees has elected Stephen Della Pietra, Ph.D., to the private not-for-profit institution鈥檚 governing body. Della Pietra is Head of Research for investment management firm Renaissance Technologies and co-founder of the Della Pietra Lecture Series at Stony Brook University.
鈥淚 am pleased to welcome Stephen Della Pietra to the 黑料吃瓜资源 Board of Trustees,鈥� said CSHL Chair Marilyn Simons, Ph.D. 鈥淚鈥檝e known Stephen for some 30 years now, and I have seen firsthand the inherent passion and curiosity he brings to research and education. He will be an invaluable partner to the CSHL Board.鈥�
Della Pietra received his bachelor鈥檚 degree in physics from Princeton University in 1981 and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1986. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. From 1989 to 1995, he worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights and Hawthorne, New York. As a project leader of the natural language understanding group, he focused his research primarily on machine translation, doing foundational work that preceded today鈥檚 AI-based large language models by decades. In 1995, Della Pietra joined Renaissance Technologies, where he has since worked on statistical methods to model the stock market.
Launched in 2011, the Della Pietra Lecture Series brings world-renowned scientists to Stony Brook University鈥檚 Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. The series aims to educate high schoolers, undergraduates, and graduate students about recent and impactful discoveries in physics and mathematics. Della Pietra is a board member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, is on the advisory council of the astrophysics department at Princeton, and on the board of the nonprofit organization PIVOT.
黑料吃瓜资源 is a 鈥減ublic charity鈥� under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS. The officers of its governing body, the CSHL Board of Trustees, are Chair Marilyn H. Simons, Ph.D., Vice Chair Charles I. Cogut, Vice Chair Robert D. Lindsay, Vice Chair Paul J. Taubman, Treasurer Elizabeth McCaul, Secretary Robert W. Lourie, Ph.D., President and CEO Bruce Stillman, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer John P. Tuke, and Chief Financial Officer Nick Milowski.
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