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Professor Cécile Ané

Cecile Ane

PhD 2000, Probability, University of Toulouse, France

Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Affiliate of the Department of Biology
Affiliate of the Data Science Institute

H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellow

Director of the Statistical Consulting Group,
Member of the Institute for Foundations of Data Science,
of the quantitative biology initiative QBI,
Genomic Sciences training program GSTP and
Wisconsin Evolution.

I want a research group where each individual is valued and supported, so that each member can reach their full potential. I absolutely stand by the diversity statements of the Statistics department and of UW-Madison.

news highlights:

  • Sept 2026: join us for the Data Impact Forum: a Showcase of UW-Madison Data Consultancies & Services. M 9/21 5:30-7:30 on the beautiful 7th floor of Morgridge Hall.
  • July 2026: launch of our college of Computing and Artificial Intelligence! I'm proud to be part of the launch video.
  • JuliaPhylo received a commendation award from SORTEE: the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • faculty perspectives on ethical decision making in our discipline.
  • Our JuliaPhylo team was honored as an Open Hall of Fame inductee, for our work on an open source software ecosystem for phylogenetics in the Julia language with an active user-contributor community across its publications, repositories, and user group. The Feature Story lists the contributors currently affiliated with UW-Madison, but there are many others!
  • Highlight on a program that I co-organized at ICERM on Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenetics
  • faces of open source
  • faces of data science