Rebecca Willett is Professor and Director of AI at the Data Science Institute of the University of Chicago. She is contributing to the mathematical foundations of machine learning and large-scale data science, with a special interest for cases where there exist some hidden structures. Her work lies at the intersection of high-dimensional statistics, inverse problems, network science and signal processing. She serves as an associate editor for the most renown journals in theses fields. Rebecca Willett has been awarded of an NSF CAREER Award 2007, and she has been named SIAM Fellow 2021, and IEEE Fellow 2022