Robert E. Kass, the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Computational Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Kass joined CMU’s Department of Statistics & Data Science in 1981 and served as department head from 1995 to 2004. He also holds faculty appointments at the Neuroscience Institute and in the Department of Machine Learning. From 2015 to 2018, he served as interim co-director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a joint effort of CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, and on the CMU side, a precursor to the Neuroscience Institute.