Kobi Abayomi
Ph.D.: 2007 (Columbia University)

Research Interests: Environmental statistics, Environmental economics, Imputation diagnostics, Dimension Reduction/Component Analysis, Dependency models

"I focus on environmental statistics; I am concerned with both physical and social ecology. I characterize my research agenda as statistical environmentalism: I approach environmental problems as a statistician"

abayomi@samsi.info

Michael Porter
Ph.D.: 2006 (University of Virginia, Dept. of Systems and Information Engineering)

Research Interests: Space-Time Point Processes, Change/Anomaly Detection, Intelligent Site Selection, Criminology and Defense Applications

porter@samsi.info
http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~porter/

Gentry White
Ph.D.: 2006 (University of Missouri)

Research Interests: Spatial-Temporal Modeling and State-Space Models

" I really enjoy the opportunities available at SAMSI"

gaw9f7@samsi.info

Guang Cheng
Ph. D: 2006 (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Research Interests: Asymptotic Statistics, Empirical Processes, Semiparametric Model, Statistical Inference under Shape Constraints, The Applications of Markov Chain Model

"My current research interest mainly focuses on the semiparametric models and empirical processes.

chengg@samsi.info
http://www.samsi.info/chengg/

Yongku Kim
Ph.D.: 2007 (Ohio State University)

Research Interests: Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling for Spatial-Temporal Process (w/Geophysical, Environmental and Climate Data), Computer Experimental Design, Data Assimilation for Nonlinear System

"I was born in South Korea. I received my MS and PhD in Statistics from Ohio State University 2003 and 2007. I am currently a post-doc fellow at SAMSI. "

kim@samsi.info

Vered Madar
Ph.D. (Tel-Aviv University)

Research Interests: Multiple Comparisons, Correlations Inequalities, and Risk Analysis

madar@samsi.info

XuanLong Nguyen
Ph.D.: 2007 (Univ. of California - Berkeley)

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computational Statistics, Optimization and Applications to Adaptive and Distributed Systems and Sensor Networks

xuanlong@samsi.info
http://www.cs/berkeley.edu/~xuanlong/

Jayanta Pal
Ph.D. : 2006 (University of Michigan)

Research Interests: Non-parametric estimation, Multivariate distributions, random matrices, extreme value distributions, Semi-parametric modeling, change point problem.

"I like traveling, especially mountains, outdoor sports. Will be joining Indian Institute of Science next year."

jpal@samsi.info
www.samsi.info/jpal

Jesus Rios
Ph.D.: 2006 (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain)

Research Interests: Decision and negotiation analysis, group decision support; game theory; risk analysis

SAMSI program: Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory.
Working groups: Adversarial Risks and Services sector risks.
PhD on: Statistics and operation research.

jrios@samsi.info

Elaine Spiller
Ph.D. : 2005 (Northwestern University)

Research Interests: Applied probability, nonlinear dynamics, partial differential equations, numerical analysis, rare event simulation, nonlinear optics, granular flow, data assimilation and statistical emulators

espiller@samsi.info

Weigang Zhong
Ph.D.: 2007 (University of Maryland at College Park)

Research Interests: Systematic study of the novel entropy stable approximate methods of nonlinear conservation laws and application of these methods to solve the scalar problems as well as the shallow water equations, and more. This involves work on finite difference approximations of PDEs, entropy stability theory, convergence rate estimates, and fluid dynamics. I also conducted research in the construction, analysis and implementation of approximate methods for nonlinear PDEs, analytical and computational problems in materials science, and computational biology. These include: High resolution high-order central schemes; vanishing leray-α and related smoothing models for scalar problems; numerical simulations of martensitic phase transition and microstructure, numerical simulations of labeling and delabeling kinetics of t-cells in blood; immersed boundary method for bio-fluids.

wzhong @samsi.info
http://www.math.umd.edu/~wzhong

Jessie Xia
Ph.D.: 2007 (Duke University)

Research Interests: Research Interest: Medical Imaging, Image Processing, Microarray Data Analysis, Clinical Trial Analysis

xq8@niss.org

Jasmine Zhou
Ph.D.: 2007 (Boston University)

Research Interests: Time Series, Self-Similar Processes, Signal Processing, Functional Data Analysis, Network

"I like research because it’s exciting to make discoveries and be challenged constantly."

zhouyc@niss.org