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• Research Overview
• Experience

Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy, 1995, University of Chicago (Statistics).
  Thesis: Construction, implementation, and theory of algorithms based on data augmentation and model reduction, under the supervision of Professor Xiao-Li Meng.
• Bachelor of Science, 1991, Michigan State University (Statistics and Probability).
  Graduated from the Honors College with High Honors.

Professional Experience:

• Chair Professor, Statistics Section, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 7/11- present.
• Head of Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 10/17 – 9/23.
• Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, 7/05 - 6/11.
• Chair, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, 7/10 - 6/11, 12/08 - 4/09 (acting), 10/07 - 12/07 (acting).
• Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, 7/03 - 6/05.
• Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 7/00 - 6/03.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 7/96 - 6/00.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Kalamazoo College, 9/95 - 6/96.

Honors and Awards:

• Founders Award, American Statistical Association, July 2019.
• Elected Fellow of the International Astrostatistics Association, April 2016.
• Wolfson Merit Award, August 2011 - July 2016.
• Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, August 2010.
• Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mid-Career Research, March 2010.
• Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Dean’s Award for Service, March 2008.
• Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, August 2006.

Professional Service (selected):

• Chair (elected), Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, American Statistical Association, 2022 (Chair Elect), 2023 (Chair), 2024 (Past Chair).
• Chair of ASA Committee to Select JASA/TAS Reviews Editor, 2018.
• Section on Data Science, Royal Statistical Society, Appointed Member, 2017.
• Chair (elected), Section on Computation, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2016 –2017 (Chair Elect), 2018 – 2019 (Chair).
• Board of Directors (Publications Representative, elected), American Statistical Association, 2015 – 2017.
• Journal of the American Statistical Association, Reviews Editor, 2014 - 2016.
• Steering Committee, Interest Group on Astrostatistics, American Statistical Association, 2014 – 2018.
• Council Member, International Astrostatistics Association, 2012 – 2017.
• Chair (elected), Section on Statistical Computing, American Statistical Association, 2014 (Chair Elect), 2015 (Chair), 2016 (Past Chair).
• Program Chair (elected), Section on Statistical Learning and Data Mining, American Statistical Association, 2011 (Chair Elect), 2012 (Chair), 2013 (Past Chair).
• Board of Directors (elected), International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2009 – 2011.
• Executive Board, Astrostatistics Committee of the International Statistical Institute, 12/09 –08/12.
• Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Editor, 2006 (Editor Elect), 2007 - 2009 (Editor), 2010 (Past Editor).