Cynthia Rush is the Howard Levene Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University. In May, 2016, she received a PhD in Statistics from Yale University under the supervision of Andrew Barron and she completed her undergraduate coursework at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she obtained a BS in Mathematics. She received an NSF CRIII award in 2019 and was an NTT Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing for the program on Probability, Computation, and Geometry in High Dimensions in Fall 2020.