Vanja Dukic, PhD

Faculty, Statistics

Biography:

I received a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2001. I was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago from 2000-2001. After that, I was an Assistant Professor (2001-2008) and then Associate Professor with tenure (2008-2010) of Biostatistics at the University of Chicago. I am currently an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics with tenure, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

My main research interests are in Bayesian modeling, inference, and computational statistics, with applications to a wide variety of fields, ranging from medicine and ecology to risk and insurance.

I can be contacted at:

Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Colorado-Boulder
Box 526; Boulder, CO 80309-0526
tel: 303-735-0919
fax: 303-492-4066
email: vanja.dukic@colorado.edu

News and Events (full list)

• March 2013: Our Physical Review E paper on simulation of multivariate distirbutions is out.


• January 2013: Our PLoS ONE paper on the spread of MRSA in the US is out.


• September 2012: Dr. Dukic is the CU-Boulder PI on a new NSF Award with NCAR. More can be found out at Coupled Natural and Human Systems network. For additional preses coverage, see the US Department of State news release, or NSF Discovery news release, or NCAR news release.


• September 2012: Our JABES paper on meningitis is out.


• August 2012: Our JASA paper on Google Flu Trends is out.


• September 2011: International Innovation Interview: “Removing the smokescreen” (page 22-24), on biomarker calibration.


• May 2011: Interview with Wired.com about IP surveillance of MRSA.


• December 2009: Interview with Chicago Tribune about IP surveillance of flu.

Upcoming talks and meetings

• June 2013: Dr. Dukic will give an invited talk at BISP8.


• April 2013: Dr. Dukic will give an invited talk at the University of Toronto.


• April 2013: Dr. Dukic will give an invited talk at the University of Houston.


• Year 2013: is the International Year of Statistics: check out the list of events.


• Autumn 2012: Brown University ICERM is running a semester on Computational Challenges in Probability.


• Feb 4, 2013: Deadline for talk abstract submission for the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM2013) to be held in Montreal in 2013.


• July 28, 2012: Dr. Dukic will organize a minisymposium on Experimental design for dynamical system models in biology at SMB2012. The meeting is held at NIMBioS, in Knoxville, Tennessee.


• February 23, 2012: Dr. Dukic will give an invited talk at the MBI workshop on Recent Advances in Statistical Inference for Mathematical Biology.


• February 2, 2012: Dr. Dukic will give an invited talk at the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) Workshop in Boston, MA.


• Dr. Dukic is the 2012 Chair of the ISBA (International Society for Bayesian Analysis) Program Council. ISBA World Meeting, ISBA2012, held in Kyoto, Japan, June 25-29, 2012, was a great success -- watch the four lectures on Bayesian Foundations.


• Be on the lookout for the upcoming program for Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, in Boulder, 2013.