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 a Professor of Applied Mathematics and a courtesy Professor of Economics 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:
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
- August 2019: We received a new USDA-NIH-NSF EEID grant on Spatial dynamics of host-pathogen coevolution.
- August 2019: Congrats to Dr. Sama Shrestha on her PhD.
- August 2017: Prof. Dukic has become a courtesy Professor of Economics at CU-Boulder.
- August 2015: Prof. Dukic has become a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
- August 2014: Our paper Predicting multivariate insurance loss payments under the Bayesian copula framework has just been awarded the 2014 CAS ARIA award! From the CAS website: "This prize, established in 1997, is made to the author of a paper published by the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) that provides the most valuable contribution to casualty actuarial science."
- June 2014: We have just received additional funding from EPA to study the effects of cookstove pollution in Ghana with NCAR and NHRC. For press coverage, see ClimateWire article, Be Boulder article, and Daily Camera article.
- June 2014: Our student, Yuanting Chen, has just defended. Congrats Yuanting!
- February 2014: Our student, Stephen Kissler, has won the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship for PhD work at Cambridge University. Stephen has won the scholarship partly based on his work on climate and meningitis in Nigeria. Congrats Stephen!
- April 2014: Our Weather, Climate and Society paper on climate change and meningitis is out.
- February 2014: Our Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society paper on climate and meningitis is out.
- January 2014: Our Weather, Climate and Society paper on climate and meningitis is out.
- September 2013: Our Epidemics paper on Population-level differences in disease transmission: A Bayesian analysis of multiple smallpox epidemics is out.
- September 2013: Dr. Dukic is the CU-Boulder PI on a new NSF Award with LSU and Penn State, on Bayesian hierarchical approaches to epizootic dynamics. One of the goals of this research is to improve the use of baculovirus-based biological insecticides.
- 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 and NHRC. More can be found out at Coupled Natural and Human Systems network. For additional press coverage, see the US Department of State news release, or NSF news release, or NCAR news release.
- September 2012: Our JABES paper on climate and meningitis is out.
- August 2012: Our JASA paper on Google Flu Trends is out.
- September 6, 2012: Congrats to Yuanting Chen for passing her qualifying exam!
- January 1, 2012: Welcome to Dr. Yolanda Hagar! Dr. Hagar is a postdoctoral researcher who is working with us on nicotine metabolism and multiresolution modeling.
- 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
- Aug 2014: Dr. Hagar and Dr. Dukic will give invited talks at JSM 2014.
- July 2014: Dr. Dukic will give an invited talk at BIRS.
- March 2014: Dr. Hagar will represent the group and give an invited talk at ENAR 2014.
- Jan 2014: Dr. Hagar will represent the group and give an invited talk at MCMSki 2014.
- September 2013: Dr. Dukic will give an invited talk at the University of Houston.
- June 2013: Dr. Dukic will give an invited talk at BISP8.
- June 2013: Yuanting Chen will represent the group and give an invited talk at WNAR at UCLA.
- April 2013: Dr. Dukic will give an invited talk at the University of Toronto.
- 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 1, 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.