MaPSAC’s Lovell Leadership Series to present Provost Patrick Wolfe

Patrick Wolfe, Purdue University provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and diversity, will provide leadership insights on Oct. 31 as part of the Lovell Leadership Series, presented by the Management and Professional Staff Advisory Committee (MaPSAC).

The event, set for 1-2 p.m. ET, will offer both an in-person and virtual format. In-person attendance will be in Krach Leadership Center, Room 230. For the virtual event on Zoom, registration is required, and registrants will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the meeting. All university staff are welcome to attend with supervisor approval. 

Questions for Wolfe can be emailed in advance to mapsac-pd@purdue.edu. The discussion will be moderated to minimize interruptions during the event. 

A native of the Midwest, Wolfe is a 1998 graduate of the University of Illinois with degrees in electrical engineering and music and holds a 2003 doctorate from the University of Cambridge.

After teaching at Cambridge and Harvard, he joined the University College London faculty in 2012 and became the founding executive director of its Big Data Institute. He is currently a trustee and non-executive director of the Alan Turing Institute, the United Kingdom’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. 

Prior to his current role, Wolfe served as the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science and the Miller Family Professor of Statistics and Computer Science with faculty appointments in electrical and computer engineering. 

He has received research awards from the Royal Society, the Acoustical Society of America and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 2018 he was named the inaugural IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in Data Science.

While at Harvard, Wolfe was a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House, and he provides expert advice on applications of data science to a range of national and international entities and organizations.