Anna Korba receives the 2026 Bronze Medal of the CNRS for her contributions at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and artificial intelligence, advancing key methods in sampling and generative models.
Every measurement, whether in physics, statistics, or machine learning, comes with a cost. From Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to the limits of data prediction, Professor Xiao-Li Meng reminds us that knowledge itself is bounded by trade-offs. Precision and uncertainty are not opposites, they are partners in the same dance. In science, as in life, there is no free lunch.