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
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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. My work includes modeling of infectious diseases (NPV, smallpox, influenza, MRSA, and meningitis), IP surveillance, and sequential decision making under uncertainty.
Below is a partial list of current research interests and projects I am involved in. Click on each to for more specific information.
- Biomarker Calibration
- Infectious disease modeling
- Epidemics, ecology, and mathematical epidemiology
- IP surveillance and computational epidemiology
- Bayesian inference in stochastic processes
- Environmental statistics
- Simulation, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
- Bayesian inference and decision theory
- Model selection and model averaging
- Algebraic Statistics
- Biostatistical methodology
- Meta-analysis
- Biomarkers, diagnostic tests and ROC curves
- Clinical trials
- Survival analysis and hazard modeling
- Hormonal pattern modeling
- ART (human infertility)
- Bayesian methods for risk and insurance