Marina Vannucci

Marina Vannucci (born 1966)[1] is an Italian statistician, the Noah Harding Professor and Chair of Statistics at Rice University, the past president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and the former editor-in-chief of Bayesian Analysis. Topics in her research include wavelets, feature selection, and cluster analysis in Bayesian statistics.

Education and career

Vannucci earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1992, from the University of Florence. She completed her doctorate in statistics in 1996 at the same institution.[2] Her dissertation, supervised by Antonio Moro, was On the Application of Wavelets in Statistics.[3] After postdoctoral research at the University of Kent, she joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1998, and moved to Rice in 2007.

She was editor-in-chief of Bayesian Analysis for 2013–2015,[2] and was elected president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the 2018 term.[4]

Awards and honors

Vannucci is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (2006),[2] the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2009),[2][5] the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012),[2][6] and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2014), and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (2007).[2] The citation for her IMS fellowship credits her "for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of Bayesian methods for variable selection, and of wavelet-based modeling, and for mentorship of young researchers".[5] She was given the Noah Harding Chair in 2016.[7]

References
  1. Birthdate from Worldcat
  2. Vannucci, Marina (September 9, 2017), Brief bio, retrieved 2017-10-24
  3. Marina Vannucci at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Executive Committee, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, retrieved 2017-10-24
  5. IMS Announces 2009 Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, May 8, 2009, retrieved 2017-10-24
  6. "Seventeen Members Elected Fellows of AAAS", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, January 1, 2013
  7. Vannucci named Noah Harding Chair, Rice University Department of Statistics, September 26, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-24
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