Jessica has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowship is one of the most prestigious honors in the U.S., supporting individuals who have demonstrated exceptional scholarship or creative work across the sciences and arts. This year marks the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows.

Jessica was selected for her pioneering research at the intersection of statistics, data science, and genomics, where she develops principled and interpretable statistical methods to improve the reliability of high-throughput genomic data analysis. Her work has advanced understanding in transcriptomics, single-cell analysis, and the quantification of gene expression, with broad implications for biology, medicine, and public health. This honor is a meaningful recognition of the research contributions made by members of the JSB Lab, and Jessica is deeply grateful to her students and postdocs for their dedication and impact.

Official announcement from the Guggenheim Foundation: https://www.gf.org/stories/announcing-the-2025-guggenheim-fellows
More information from the UCLA Newsroom: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/guggenheim-fellowships-awarded-to-5-ucla-faculty-members