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Grantham wins ENAR and ENVR awards

Neal Grantham has won the 2017 ENAR Distinguished Paper Award and 2017 ASA-ENVR Awards. Neal’s paper entitiled “A Hierarchical Bayesian Mixed-Effects Model for High-Dimensional Microbiome...

Guan wins ENAR and HSPP award

Qian Guan has won the 2017 ENAR Distinguished Paper Award and the 2017 ASA-HPSS Award. Qian’s paper entitiled “A Principled Policy-Optimized Bayesian Nonparametric Formulation of...

Reich funded by the Gates Foundation

A spatiotemporal recommendation engine for malaria control In collaboration with researchers from UNC, we will develop and disseminate a recommender system for spatiotemporal resource allocation...

NCSU receives DOD award

Forensic Geolocation via Biological Signatures The Department of Defense has awarded NCSU with funding to develop methods to identify the geographic origin of materials using...

Dora Zhang defends her thesis

Bayesian Methods for High-dimensional Data. Dora Zhang successfully defended her thesis entitled “Bayesian Methods for High-dimensional Data”. In her thesis, Dora proposed several new continuous-shrinkage...