Statistics Professor Babak Shahbaba is the principal investigator (PI) of a new three-year, $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project, “Modulus: Data-Driven Mechanistic Modeling of Hierarchical Tissues,” brings together an interdisciplinary team of biologists, statisticians and mathematicians, including co-PIs Statistics Professor Vladimir Minin and Assistant Professor Angela Fleischman from the UCI School of Medicine. The goal is to develop a new mathematical framework that combines statistical and mechanistic models to help scientists discover emergent biological phenomena and to understand the rules that govern them.
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Hal Stern Appointed Vice Provost for Academic Planning
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of Chancellor Gillman, I am pleased to
announce that Hal S. Stern has been appointed vice provost for academic
planning, effective Sept. 1. Since joining UCI as founding chair of the
Department of Statistics in 2002, Professor Stern has held a range of
academic and administrative leadership roles. He served for eight years
as chair of statistics and then more than six years as the Ted and
Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean of the Donald Bren School of
Information and Computer Sciences. He is currently a Chancellor’s
Professor of statistics.
Professor Nan Awarded NSF Grant to Improve Statistical Inference
Statistics Professor Bin Nan, motivated by his collaborations in biomedical studies, is developing new theories and methods that will lead to more reliable results in high-dimensional statistical inference with potential applications in genetics and brain imaging studies. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded him $200,000 over three years for his grant, “High-Dimensional Inference beyond Linear Models.” The research is focused on finding ways to better address the bias issue for estimates in nonlinear models with a large number of predictors.
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