Post on 25-Jan-2015
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Marina Vannucci
Professor of Statistics
Co-Director, Joint MDA-RICE Graduate Program in Biostatistics
About me
• 1992 B.S. math; 1996 Ph.D. stat, University of Florence, Italy
• 1996-1998 University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
• 1998-2007 Texas A&M University
• At Rice University since 2007
Research Interests
• Theory and Methods:
Bayesian modeling
Variable selection
Nonparametric functional estimation
Wavelet-based statistical models
Statistical computing
• Applications:
Bioinformatics, chemometrics and engineering
funding from NSF and NIH
Bioinformatics• Models for high-dimensional data • DNA microarrays and mass spectrometry data• Data integration (i.e., gene expressions and
sequence data) • Modeling of torsion angles for protein structure
prediction (structural bioinformatics)• Collaborations with faculty at the Texas Children
Hospital (TCH), with Dr. Guerra and Dr. Kimmel• MD Anderson faculty (P. Mueller and K.A. Do)
Functional Data• Biomedical data• Nonparametric modeling (wavelets)• Bayesian modeling• Collaboration with Dr. Cox on fluorescence spectroscopy
for cervical pre-cancer detection• MD Anderson faculty (J. Morris on colon carcinogenesis)
Students• I have advised 9 Ph.D. students, 3 Master students and
4 postdocs
University of Texas at El PasoUniversity of MichiganGeorgetown UniversityBoise State UniversityIndiana UniversityMD Anderson Cancer CenterMoffit Cancer Center, Florida N.S. Kline Research Institute, NY National Research Institute, ItalyNational Cancer Center, Korea National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Currently mentoring: Colleen Kenney,Terrance Savitsky, Francesco Stingo, Alejandro Villagran-Hernandez