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 Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her pioneering
 contributions to nonparametric regression and the development of algorithms for
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 gradient boosting and neural networks. Known as "the mother of smoothing
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 in the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
 established the Grace Wahba Award and Lecture in her honor. </p>
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