Four new faculty join Statistics team for 2011

Dr. Qunhua Li, Assistant Professor of Statistics joins us from University of California at Berkeley.  Her research interests concern developing statistical methods for analyzing large and complex data.  She has been working on using latent variable modeling to identify and infer scientifically meaningful structures in large and complex biological data, such as high-throughput or proteomic data.  Dr. Li obtained her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2008 and had been working as a postdoctoral researcher since September 2008 at University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Sonja Petrovic, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Mathematics joins us from University of Illinois at Chicago.  Her research interests involve algebraic statistics, applied and computational algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, applications to statistical models in phylogenetics.  Dr. Petrovic obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Kentucky in 2008 and had been working as a Research Assistant Professor since August 2008 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dr. Le Bao, Assistant Professor of Statistics joins us from University of Washington.  His research interests involve Bayesian methods, mixture models, stochastic modeling, networks, computation methods, and applications in health, environmental and social sciences.  Dr. Bao obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington and had been working as a Assistant Professor since 2007 at the University of Washington.

Xiaoyue (Maggie) Niu, Research Associate of Statistics joins us from University of Washington.  Dr. Niu received her Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Washington in 2010 and had been working as a Research Assistant since 2006 and recently as a Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.