Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya: Curriculum Vitae · 2020-06-09 · Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya 2 Conference Papers Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Joseph W. Richards, John Rice, Dan L. Starr, Nathaniel

Sharmodeep BhattacharyyaDepartment of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley367 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3860Citizenship: India

Mobile: (510) 316-5956Email: [email protected]: http://stat.berkeley.edu/ sharmo

Education

Ph.D. Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2013.

Specialization: Designated Emphasis in Communication, Computation and Statistics.

Marks: UC GPA 3.971 (out of 4)

M.Stat., Indian Statistical Institute, 2008.

Specialization: Mathematical Statistics and Probability.

Marks: 86.3% (top of class)

B.Stat.(Hons.), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2006.

Marks: 85.9% (within top three of class)

Research Fields

Statistics on graphs and networks: Inference on statistics of networks, community detection in sparse networks, semiparametric modeling of networks.

High-dimensional structured density estimation: Estimation of elliptical and shape-constrained densities in high-dimensions.

Unsupervised learning especially clustering and manifold learning: Developing a theoretical framework for clusteringusing using level set, clustering on high-dimensional data, unified framework for clustering algorithm.

Application of Statistics in Astronomy and Astrophysics: Novelty detection from light curve data in large automatedastronomical surveys.

Multiple hypothesis testing: Control of FWER and FDR under correlated hypothesis.

Semiparametric and nonparametric statistical techniques and Time-series analysis.

Research

Papers

Subsampling bootstrap of count features of stochastic networks: Developing resampling schemes for efficient countingand for finding variance estimate of counts of patterns/motifs in networks. Arxiv: 1312.2645 (With Prof. PeterBickel) (Presented in JSM 2012)

Adaptive estimation in elliptical distributions with extensions to high-dimensions Preprint Available (With Prof.Peter Bickel) (Presented in World Congress of Probability and Statistics, 2012)

Community detection in sparse networks using graph distance, Preprint Available (With Prof. Peter Bickel).

FWER control for correlated hypothesis, (With Prof. Yoav Benjamini).

Outlier Detection in Light Curve Data using Clustering, (With Dr. Joseph Richards and Prof. John Rice).

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Conference Papers

Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Joseph W. Richards, John Rice, Dan L. Starr, Nathaniel R. Butler and Joshua S.Bloom, Identification of Outliers through Clustering and Semi-supervised Learning In All Sky Automated SurveyData Set, Proceedings of Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V, ed. by E. D. Feigelson and G. J. Babu(2012), Springer.

Working Papers

Theoretical Analysis of Clustering: Attempting to give a theoretical foundation to clustering by linking metric anddensity-based methods and thus developing better clustering algorithms for both low and high-dimensional datasets.(With Prof. Peter Bickel)

Proposal

The Automated Detection of R Cor Bor Stars - Spectroscopic Confirmation by Adam Miller, Joseph W. Richards,Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Dan L. Starr and Joshua S. Bloom. Accepted in National Optical Astronomy Observa-tory.

Internship

Summer 2010: Quantitative Marketing Research Group, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA.Project: Model-based Advertiser Diagnostics: Local interpretation of Black-Box Models.

Talks

Conference and Poster Presentations

Joint Statistical Meeting, San Diego, 2012.

World Congress of Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, 2012.

Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V, Penn State University, June 13-17, 2011.

Complex Networks Transition Workshop, SAMSI, June 6-7, 2011

Sixth International Triennial Kolkata Symposium on Probability & Statistics, University of Calcutta, Dec 29-31,2006.

Unpublished Papers

Analysis of Arsenic Data in Gangetic Delta, with M. A. Hussain, R. Guhaniyogi, U. Pal (2006).

A Study of Optimal Partitioning Algorithms in Cluster Analysis (Master’s Thesis), under Prof. Probal Chaudhuri(2008)

Teaching

Instructor at University of California, Berkeley

Stat 131A, Fall 2012: Statistical Inference for Biological Scientists

TA in Graduate Courses at University of California, Berkeley

Stat 210A, Fall 2009: Theoretical Statistics

Stat 210B, Spring 2012: Theoretical Statistics


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TA in Undergraduate Courses at University of California, Berkeley

Stat 21, Summer 2009: Introductory Statistics

Stat 151B, Spring 2010: Modern Applied Statistics and Machine Learning.

Stat 20, Fall 2010: Introductory Statistics

Honors & Awards

Awards

Bay Area ASA travel grant award for JSM, 2012.

NSF travel grant award for World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Instanbul, 2012.

ISIAA Mrs. M.R. Iyer Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement, M.Stat, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2008.

Awards for excellent academic performance in eight semesters, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2004–2008.

Scholarships

D.V. Gokhale Grant in Statistics, IIE, 2008-2009.

National Talent Search Examination Scholarship, NCERT, Govt. of India, 2001.

Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search Scholarship, 2003.

Computer Skills

C, Fortran, Python, Matlab, Mathematica, R, SAS, SQL, LATEX.

References

Peter BickelProfessor of StatisticsUniversity of California, [email protected]

Bin YuProfessor of StatisticsUniversity of California, [email protected]

Yoav BenjaminiThe Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied StatisticsTel-aviv [email protected]

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Yanming Di

Department of Statistics Oregon State University 44 Kidder Hall Corvallis, OR 97331

Phone: 541-737-1992Fax: 541-737-3489 Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.science.oregonstate.edu/~diy/

A. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION

A.1. Education

2004–2009 PhD, Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA2001–2003 MS, Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ1997–2000 MS, Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China1993–1997 BS, Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

A.2. Employment

Oregon State UniversityFall 2009–present Assistant Professor of StatisticsFall 2010–present Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Public Health (Biostatistics)Fall 2011–present Faculty member of the multidisciplinary Molecular and Cellular Biology

(MCB) Graduate ProgramUniversity of Washington, Department of Statistics2006–2009 Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth Thompson)Summer 2008 InstructorFall 2005 Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Michael Perlman)2004–2005 Teaching AssistantBrown University, Department of Mathematics2003–2004 Teaching AssistantArizona State University, Department of Computer ScienceSummer 2003 Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Arunaba Sen, Prof. Huan Liu)Arizona State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics2001–2003 Teaching Assistant

B. TEACHING, ADVISING AND OTHER ASSIGNMENT

B.1. Instructional Summary

Credit Courses

Term Course Title EnrollmentWinter 2015 ST 422/522 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics 41Winter 2015 ST 201 Priciples of Statistics 125Winter 2014 ST 422/522 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics 37Fall 2013 ST 421/521 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics 54Winter 2013 ST 661 Advanced Theory of Statistics I 6Winter 2013 ST 562 Theory of Statistics II 33Fall 2012 ST 421/521 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics 43Spring 2012 ST 563 Theory of Statistics III 23Winter 2012 ST 562 Theory of Statistics II 28Fall 2011 ST 421/521 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics 40Spring 2011 ST 563 Theory of Statistics III 19Fall 2010 ST 421/521 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics 14Spring 2010 ST 563 Theory of Statistics III 24Fall 2009 ST 421/521 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics 24

Curriculum Development

Curriculum committee service: Winter 2014–present Committee for Developing Online MS Program in Data AnalyticsWinter 2014–present Committee for Developing Certificate Program in Statistics for

E-campusWinter 2014–present Task force for coordinating curriculum in biological informatics,

computational and systems biologyFall 2011–Summer 2013 Department of Statistics Curriculum Committee

Meetings and forums attended: November 2013 Meeting to discuss undergraduate education in Bioinformatics and

Genomics and the BRR optionMarch 2012 Discussion forum on curriculum with MCB faculty

Graduate Students

I am currently the major professor for 2 PhD students in Statistics. I have 1 PhD student who already completed our program. I have served as major professor for 5 MS students in Statistics for whom I supervised their master's projects. As major professor, I meet weekly with my students to discuss their course work and research. I particularly emphasize interdisciplinary training. All my PhD students have received scholarships to attend the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics.

I am serving or have served as minor professor for 5 PhD students and 6 master's students seeking a minor degree in Statistics. I provided guidance and advice on statistical methods and data analyses for their projects.

I have served as committee member on 23 additional student committees (4 PhD and 19 MS, 20 in Statistics). During their courses of study, I attend committee meetings and regularly discuss with the students on their progress.

PhD Mentoring, Major Professor (3)

Name Major Year Thesis TitleWanli Zhang Statistics 2014–presentBin Zhuo Statistics 2013–presentGu Mi Statistics 2011–2014 Statistical Analysis of RNA Sequencing Count Data

MS Mentoring, Major Professor (5)

Name Major Year Master's Project TopicWanli Zhang Statistics 2014 Model-based clustering with measurement errorsQian Wu Statistics 2013 Disease Mapping and Spatial RegressionChaozhe Liu Statistics 2012 Statistical Modeling of RNA-Seq DataNathan Palmer Statistics 2012 A Glance at Reliability: Cronbach’s AlphaGu Mi Statistics 2011 Length bias correction in gene-ontology analysis using logistic

regression

Minor Professor (12, for students seeking a minor degree in Statistics)

Name Degree Major College YearJayda Spong PhD Chemistry ScienceWeifeng Huang MEng Mechanical Engineering EngineeringSarah Guermond MS Integrative Biology ScienceFeifei Lei MEng Industrial Engineering Engineering 2015Nithin Saravana Marthandam

MS Industrial Engineering Engineering 2014

Xiong Xiao MBA Master of Business Administration Business 2014Le Sheng MEng Mechanical Engineering Engineering 2014Lian Ma PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences Pharmacy 2013Nima Dolatnia MEng Industrial Engineering Engineering 2013Behrouz Behmardi

PhD Electrical Engineering Engineering 2012

Qian Wu PhD Applied Economics Agricultural Sciences 2012Guomei Wang PhD Crop and Soil Science Agricultural Sciences 2009–2010

Other PhD Committees, Committe Member (4)

Name Major College YearMitra Ansari Molecular and Cellular Biology 2013–presentShuping Jiang Statistics Science 2010–2013David Dail Statistics Science 2010–2012Yan Wang EECS Engineering 2009

Other MS Committees, Committee Member (19)

Name Major College YearJohn Orr Statistics Science 2015Le Wang Statistics Science 2014Lin Xiang Statistics Science 2014Nima Dolatnia Statistics Science 2013Hai Yang Statistics Science 2013Danlin Wang Statistics Science 2013Lujing Li Statistics Science 2013Elise Korejwa Statistics Science 2013Jianfei Zheng Transportation Engineering Engineering 2012Ziyi Jin Statistics Science 2012Lili Peng Statistics Science 2011Rongrong Dong Statistics Science 2011Guomei Wang Statistics Science 2011Douglas Savin Statistics Science 2011Hong Zhu Statistics Science 2011Andy Olstad Statistics Science 2011Kylene Hart Statistics Science 2011Evercita Eugenio Statistics Science 2011Shuping Jiang Statistics Science 2010

B.5. Other Assignments

35% of my appointment is statistical consulting and collaboration with researchers in the College of Agriculture Sciences (CAS). I have provided formal consulting to more than 20 researchers at OSU (listed below, most are associated with the CAS), as well as many informal short-term discussions and consultations with students and faculty members.

Dates Project and collaborators/clients

Winter 2014–present

"Differential Expression of Elaphocordyceps ophioglossoides grown on media simulating host and non-host tissues"Joey Spatafora, PhD, Associate Professor, Botany and Plant Pathology, Agricultural SciencesC. Alisha Quandt, PhD Candidate, Botany and Plant Pathology, Agricultural Sciences

Fall 2009–present "Statistical methods for plant pathology"Jeff Chang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Botany and Pathology

Fall 2010–present "Grape berry synchronization: Dissection of the genetic structure of a new ripening trait in grapes"Laurent Deluc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Horticulture

Summer 2014 "Role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma on prevention/cure of Mastitis"Massimo Bionaz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Animal and Rangeland Sciences, Agricultural Sciences

Fall 2013 "Transcriptome analysis in resistant, susceptible, and hypersensitive potato varieties upon PVY inoculation by RNA-Seq"Aymeric Goyer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Pathology, Agricultural Sciences

Fall 2012–Summer 2013

"Circadian clocks in drosophila"Jaga Giebultowicz, PhD, Associate Professor, Zoology, Science

Fall 2012 "Differential expression in a time course experiment with douglas-fir trees"Richard Cronn, PhD, Courtesy Assistant Professor (Botany and Plant Pathology), PNW Research Station, USDA Forest ServiceBrian Knaus, PhD, Faculty Research Assistant, PNW Research Station, USDA Forest Service

Fall 2012–Spring 2013

"Expression of the simA cluster in Tolypocladium"Joey Spatafora, PhD, Associate Professor, Botany and Plant Pathology, Agricultural SciencesKathryn Bushley, PhD student, Botany and Plant Pathology, Agricultural Sciences


"Responses of and interactions between nitrifying bacteria to environmental changes: a systems level approach"Daniel J. Arp, PhD, Professor, Botany and Plant Pathology, Agricultural Sciences


"Poplar methylome variation during in vitro regeneration"Steven H. Strauss, PhD, Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society, ForestryKelly Vining, PhD, Faculty Research Associate, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Forestry

Winter 2011–Fall 2011

"A genome-wide analysis of gene expression in response to perennial ryegrass toxicosis"Lixin Li, PhD, Faculty Research Assistant, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology

Fall 2011 "Canine cytotrophoblasts"Michelle Kutzler, PhD, Associate Professor, Animal SciencesTimothy Hazzard, PhD, Assistant Professor Sr. Research, Animal SciencesElizabeth Fellows, MS, Master Student, Animal Sciences

Fall 2011 "Characterization of the plastome of Asclepias syriaca"Shannon Straub, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Botany and Plant Pathology

Winter 2011 "Pathogen adaptation to novel hosts through introgressive hybridization"Michelle Steinauer, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Veterinary MedicineMichael Blouin, PhD, Professor, Zoology

Fall 2010–Winter 2011

"Fruit set and berry development in commercially-grown blueberry cultivars"Emily Vollmer, MS, Faculty Research Assistant, Horticulture(joint with Cliff Pereira)

Summer 2010–Winter 2011

"Studies on infectious diseases of salmonid fish"Sascha Hallett, PhD, Research Associate, Microbiology

Spring 2010 "Correlation between herd behavior and sedative effects of medication"Dawn Marie Sherwood, PhD, Assistant Professor, Animal Science

Spring 2010 "Fish migration behaviors"Ben Clemens, PhD candidate, Student, Fisheries and Wildlife

Winter 2010 "Gene translocation and genetic maps"Guomei Wang, PhD candidate, Student, Crop and Soil Science

Fall 2009 "Estimating contamination rates in ryegrasses"Dan Curry, Director of Seed Services, Crop and Soil Science(joint with Alix Gitleman)

C. SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

C.1. Publications

(Underscored authors are my PhD students.)

Peer-reviewed Publications (Statistical Methodology)

17. Di Y (2014): "Single-gene negative binomial regression models for RNA-Seq data with higher-order asymptotic inference". Statistics and Its Interface, accepted.I used higher-order asymptotic techniques to improve the likedlihood ratio test for NB regression models where the dispersion is unknown. This case is technically more challenging than in Di et al. 2013, where the dispersion can be treated as known.

16. Mi G, Di Y (2015): "The Level of Residual Dispersion Variation and the Power of Differential Expression Tests for RNA-Seq Data". PLoS ONE, 10(4). linkI supervised Mi on this study. I provided guidance on all phases of this study: from methodology development, to study design, and to manuscript preparation and revision.

15. Mi G, Di Y, Schafer DW (2015): "Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Model Diagnostics for Negative Binomial Regression of RNA Sequencing Data". PLoS ONE, 10(3). linkProf. Schafer and I co-supervised Mi on this study. I provided guidance on all phases of this study: from methodology development, to study design, and to manuscript preparation and revision.

14. Jiang Y, Emerson S, Wang L, Li L, Di Y (2014): "Family-based association test using normal approximation to gene dropping null distribution". BMC Proceedings, 8(Supp 1), S18. linkI was the corresponding author and led this study. I derived the analytical mean and variance of the score test statistic in gene-dropping simulations and provided insights into the gene-dropping test by decomposing the test statistic into a linkage component and an association component.

13. Di Y, Schafer DW, Emerson SC, Chang JH (2013): "Higher order asymptotics for negative binomial regression inferences from RNA-sequencing data". Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol, 12(1), 49-70. linkI was the lead author. I used higher-order asymptotic techniques (HOA) to improve the likedlihood ratio test for NB regression models. I demonstrated that the HOA-adjusted likelihood ratio test gives accurate Type-I errors even in small-sample situations.

12. Mi G, Di Y, Emerson SC, Cumbie JS, Chang JH (2012): "Length bias correction in gene-ontology analysis using logistic regression". PLoS ONE, 27(10), e46128. linkI supervised Mi on this study. I provided guidance on all phases of this study: methodology development, study design, and manuscript preparation and revision. We clarfied the issue of lenght-bias: gene transcript length becomes a confounding factor in gene-ontology (GO) analysis if it correlates with both GO category membership and the power of the DE test. We proposed to use logistic regression model to adjust for lenght-bias.

11. Kimbrel JA, Di Y, Cumbie JS, Chang JH (2011): "RNA-Seq for Plant Pathogenic Bacteria". Genes, 2(4), 689-705. linkThis is a review paper. I contributed to the discussion of the technical and statistical challenges in the practical application of RNA-Seq for studying bacterial transcriptomes.

10. Cumbie JS, Kimbrel JA, Di Y, Schafer DW, Wilhelm LJ, Fox SE, Sullivan CM, Curzon AD, Carrington JC, Mockler TC, Chang JH (2011): "GENE-counter: a computational and statistical

pipeline for assessing RNA-seq data for genome-wide expression differences". PLoS ONE, 6(10), e25279. linkThe paper introduces GENE-counter, a complete computational pipeline for analyzing RNA-Seq data for differential expression. My R package NBPSeq is one compoment in the pipeline. I also contributed to the discussion of and comparison with other statistical analysis tools available at the time.

9. Thomas A, Abel HJ, Di Y, Faye LL, Jin J, Liu J, Wu Z, Paterson AD (2011): "The impact of linkage disequilibrium on the identification of functional variants". Genetic Epidemiology, 35(Supp1), S115-S119. linkThis paper summarized the contributions of Group 9 of Genetic Analysis Workshop 17. I contributed to the discussion of the effect of long range linkage disequilibrium on association tests.

8. Di Y, Mi G, Sun L, Dong R, Zhu H, Peng L (2011): "Power of Association Tests in the Presence of Multiple Causal Variants". BMC Proceedings, 5(Suppl 9), S63. linkI led this study. I organized and supervised the graduate students participants, filled them in on the background on statistical genetics. I designed the study, derived the theoretical results, and led the simulations. This study highlighted the often overlooked importance of long-range and weak linkage disequilibrium in genetic association studies.

7. Di Y, Schafer DW, Cumbie JS, Chang JH (2011): "The NBP Negative Binomial Model for Assessing Differential Gene Expression from RNA-Seq". Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 10(1). linkI was the lead author. I developed the statistical software, performed the simulation studies, and drafted the paper. This paper is one of the early papers that raised the awareness of the issue of overdipserison in RNA-Seq data.

6. Marchani EE, Di Y, Choi Y, Cheung C, Su M, Boehm F, Thompson EA, Wijsman EM (2009): "Contrasting IBD estimators, association studies, and linkage analysis using the Framingham Heart Study data". BMC Proceedings, 3(Suppl 7), S102. linkI conducted family-based linkage analysis in this study.

5. Di Y, Thompson EA (2009): "Conditional tests for localizing trait genes". Human Heredity, 68(2), 139-150. linkI was the lead author. Prof. Thompson is my PhD thesis advisor. I developed a more robust and reliable approach for localizing trait genes in a family-based genetic linkage analysis.

4. Basu S, Di Y, Thompson EA (2008): "Exact trait-model-free tests for linkage detection in pedigrees". Annals of Human Genetics, 72(5), 676-682. linkI conducted power-simulations under marker model misspecification for the simulation-based test.

3. Di Y, Perlman MD (2008): "Detecting linear sequences and subsequences". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138(9), 2634-2648. linkI developed the computing algorithms and conducted simulations. Professor Perlman derived the theoretical results. We developed tests for detecting regular subsequences in a sequence of event occurence times.

2. Sung YJ, Di Y, Fu AQ, Rothstein JH, Sieh W, Tong L, Thompson EA, Wijsman EM (2007): "Comparison of multipoint linkage analyses for quantitative traits in the CEPH data: parametric LOD scores, variance components LOD scores, and Bayes factors". BMC Proceedings, 1(Suppl 1), S93.I performed Bayesian oligogenic joint segregation and linkage analyses using Loki.

1. Di Y, Li H, Ramineni A, Sen A (2003): "Detecting hidden information in images: a comparative study". Proceedings of Second Workshop on Privacy Preserving Data Mining, .All authors contributed equally. I used a logistic regression method to detect messages hidden in images by steganography.

Peer-reviewed Publications (Biological Subject Areas)

4. Li L, Di Y, Estill C, Duringer J, Blythe L, Galen A, Livesay S, Craig AM (2014): "Bovine hepatic differential gene expression in response to perennial ryegrass staggers". World Mycotoxin Journal,accepted.I assisted in the statistical anlaysis of microarray data and provided advices on other statistical analyses in the paper.

3. Gouthu S, O’Neil ST, Di Y, Ansarolia M, Megraw M, Deluc LG (2014): "A comparative study of ripening among berries of the grape cluster reveals an altered transcriptional programme and enhanced ripening rate in delayed berries". Journal of Experimental Botany, Advance Access published. linkI assisted in the statistical anlaysis of gene expression data and provided advices on other statistical analyses in the paper.

2. Vining K, Pomraning KR, Wilhelm LJ, Ma C, Pellegrini M, Di Y, Mockler TC, Freitag M, Strauss SH (2013): "Methylome reorganization during in vitro dedifferentiation and regeneration of Populustrichocarpa". BMC Plant Biology, 13(92). linkI contributed to the statistical analysis of DNA methylation data.

1. Bushley KE, Raja R, Jaiswal P, Cumbie JS, Nonogaki M, Boyd AE, Owensby CA, Knaus BJ, Elser J, Miller D, Di Y, McPhail KL, Spatafora JW (2013): "The Genome of Tolypocladium inflatum: Evolution, Organization, and Expression of the Cyclosporin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster". PLoS Genetics, 9(6), e1003496. linkI provided guidance and software for the statistical analysis and interpretation of RNA-Seq data.

Peer-reviewed Publications (Others)

1. Di Y (2001): "The class number of the field Q(sqrt(q1) , ..., sqrt(qt)) (t>=4) is Even". Acta Mathematica Sinica, 44(1), 125-130.In algebraic number theory, class number is an important character of number fields.

Technical Reports

1. Di Y (2009): "t-separation and d-separation for directed acyclic graphs". Tech Report 552, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, .

C.2. Presentations

November 2014

"Statistical Issues in Differential Expression Analysis of RNA-Sequencing Data"Invited talk, ACMS Colloquium, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

August 2014 "Visualizing a Large Number of Regression Models Fitted to RNA-Sequencing Data"Contributed poster, Joint Statistical Meetings 2014, Boston, MA

June 2014 "Power-Robustness Analysis of Statistical Models for RNA Sequencing Data"Contributed talk, 2014 Annual Meeting of the WNAR/IMS, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

August 2013 "Assessing Models of RNA-Sequencing Data"Contributed poster, Joint Statistical Meetings 2013, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

June 2013 "Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Model Diagnostics for Negative Binomial Regression of RNA-Seq Data"Contributed talk, 2013 Annual Meeting of the WNAR/IMS, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

April 2013 "Higher Order Asymptotics for Negative Binomial Regression Inferences from RNA-Sequencing Data"Mathematical Biology Seminar, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

October 2012 "Randomized family-based association tests in the presence of linkage"Contributed poster, 2012 IGES (International Genetic Epidemiology Society) Conference, Stevenson, WA

August 2012 "Higher Order Asymptotics for Negative Binomial Regression Inferences from RNA-Sequencing Data"Contributed talk, Joint Statistical Meetings 2012, San Diego, CA

June 2012 "Higher Order Asymptotics for Negative Binomial Regression Inferences from RNA-Sequencing Data"Contributed talk, 2012 Annual Meeting of the WNAR/IMS, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

April 2012 "Higher Order Asymptotics for Negative Binomial Regression Inferences from RNA-Sequencing Data"Department of Statistics Research Seminar, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

September 2011

"Regression Analysis of RNA-Seq Data"Invited talk, 2011 CGRB Fall Conference, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

June 2011 "Assessing Differential Gene Expression from RNA-Seq Data"RNA-Seq Workshop, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

October 2010 "Impact of LD on identification of functional variants (joint presentation of Group 9)"Genetic Analysis Workshop 17, Boston, MA

June 2010 "Randomized Family-Based Association Tests Conditional on Latent Inheritance Vector"Contributed talk, 2010 Annual Meeting of the WNAR/IMS, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

June 2009 "Family-based and population-based studies are complementary"Contributed talk, 2009 Annual Meeting of the WNAR/IMS, Portland State University, Portland, OR

April 2009 "Conditional tests for localizing trait genes"Job Candidate Talk, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

March 2009 "Conditional tests for localizing trait genes"Job Candidate Talk, School of Public Health (Biostatistics), Yale University, New Haven, CT

June 2008 "Conditional tests for localizing trait genes"Student paper competition, 2008 Annual Meeting of the WNAR/IMS, University of California, Davis, CA

C.3. Grants

Active

Title "Negative Binomial Regression and Higher-Order Asymptotic Inference for RNA-Seq Gene Expression Analysis"

PI Yanming DiSource of Support NIH/NIGMSTotal Award Amount $567,599Dates 07/01/2012-04/30/2015Role PISummary The major goals of this proposal are to develop and implement nearly exact

inferences for negative binomial regression analysis of RNA-Seq data. As the PI, Di's roles include coordinate the entire research project, develop, assess and implement the higher-order asymptotic (HOA) inference for negative binomial regression analysis, collaborate with co-investigators on developing interactive and dynamic visualization tools, integrating the statistical tools into an existing computational pipeline, and applying the developed tools and methods to analyze data sets.

Completed

Title "Responses of and interactions between nitrifying bacteria to environmental changes: a systems level approach"

PI Daniel J. ArpSource of Support DOETotal Award Amount $653,304Amount to Di $5,247Dates 09/01/2011-08/31/2014Role Senior PersonnelSummary The major goal of this project is to characterize the interaction between

ammonia-oxidizing and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. Di's role is to help analyze RNA-Seq data.

Title "CAREER: Investigating Dynamic Changes in the Plasma Membrane Proteome During Plant Immune Signaling"

PI Gitta Coaker

Source of Support NSF/MCBTotal Award Amount $726,338Amount to Di $0 (I participated during the no-cost extension period.)Dates 04/01/2012-03/31/2013Role Senior PersonnelSummary The major goals of this subaward are to use RNA-Seq to investigate host

transcriptome changes during microbial infection and develop a network model that integrates proteome and transcriptome changes Di's role is to find clues from RNA-Seq data.

Pending

Title "Characterization of the seed influence on the ripening of fleshy fruits"

PI Laurent DelucSource of Support NSFTotal Award Amount $2,981,910Dates 01/01/2015-12/31/2019Role Co-PISummary We propose to study role of seed in determining the ripening of the

pericarp tissue through an auxin signal.

Title "Systems biology investigation of conserved mechanisms of herpesvirus latency"

PI Ling JinSource of Support NIHTotal Award Amount $401,500Dates 06/01/2015-05/31/2017Role Co-InvestigatorSummary We propose to combine the tools of systems biology and molecular

virology to elucidate the herpesvirus latency program and to investigate the function of a previously identified candidate regulator within this program.

C.5. Other

Statistical Software

2011–present NBPSeqAn R package for assessing differential gene expression from RNA-Sequencing data. I am the main developer and maintainer of this package. My PhD students and collaborators contributed codes and data sets to this package. This package is used in many published research papers.

2009 CivilA program implementing conditional inheritance vector tests for genetic linkage analysis. The software has been released as part of the software package MORGAN 3. I was the main developer of this program.

2007 regsubseqAn R program for detecting regularities in event occurrence times. I was the main developer of this program.

D. SERVICE

D.1. University Service

University Committees

Jan 2014–present Task force: Coordinating curriculum in biological informatics, computational and systems biology

Sep 2013–present The Scientific Advisory Board for the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB)

Feb 2014–May 2014 Search Committee for the Director of MCB ProgramFall 2012–Spring 2013

CGRB Spring Conference organizing committee


Faculty Search Committee, Systems Biology of Host-Microbe Interactions, CGRB


Faculty Search Committee, Nucleic Acid Sequence Bioinformatics, CGRB


Biological Information and Genomics Cluster Hire Committee, CGRB

Fall 2011–Spring 2012

Task Force on Faculty Hiring Initiative in Biological Information and Genomics

Spring 2011 Search Committee for Assistant Professor (Systems Biology, CGRB)

Departmental Committees

Winter 2014–present Committee for online MS program in Data AnalyticsWinter 2014–present Certificate Program for Ecampus CommitteeFall 2012–present Graduate CommitteeFall 2011–present Exam CommitteeWinter 2015 Search Committee for ProfessorWinter 2014 Search Committee for Assistant ProfessorsSummer 2013 Chair of the Search Committee for InstructorFall 2011–Summer 2013 Curriculum CommitteeSpring 2011 Search Committee for Assistant Professors

D.2. Service to Profession

Referee for journals: Journal Dates Nature Protocols 03/2013Bioinformatics 10/2012European Journal of Human Genetics 01/2012Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 2009, 03/2011, and 03/2011Statistical Science 2009

Organized invited sessions for WNAR 2013 and ICSA 2014 conferences.

E. AWARDS

E.1. National and International

2008 Travel award, Algebraic Statistics Workshop (MSRI, UC Berkeley)

SARAH CHILDRESS EMERSON

Department of Statistics, Oregon State University

44 Kidder Hall

Corvallis, OR 97331

Office: 66 Kidder Hall

Office Phone: (541) 737-1991

E-mail: [email protected]

A. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

2010 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University

2009 – 2010 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health

Mentor: Rebecca Betensky

2004 – 2009 Ph.D. in Statistics (September 2009) Stanford University, Stanford, California

Thesis Advisor: Art Owen

Thesis Title: Small Sample Performance and Calibration of the Empirical Likelihood Method

Thesis Reading Committee: Art Owen, Joseph Romano, Guenther Walther

2006 Consultant, Insightful Corporation, Seattle, Washington and Genentech, South San Francisco,

California

Developed software for use in design and analysis of sequential trials as part of S+SeqTrial

software library. Particular emphasis on analysis of time-to-event endpoints and performance

in presence of non-proportional hazards.

2002 – 2003 Assistant Programmer, Seattle, Washington

Programmed sequential trial simulation and numerical integration routines for exact binomial

behavior in S-PLUS for inclusion in S+SeqTrial software library

2001 – 2004 B.S. in Mathematics (June 2004) Stanford University, Stanford, California

B. TEACHING, ADVISING AND OTHER ASSIGNMENTS

Instructional Summary

Credit Courses

Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

Prepared syllabus and lectures; delivered lectures; assigned homework; prepared homework solutions; prepared and

graded exams; held weekly office hours; coordinated teaching assistants

Course

Number

Course Name Term Year Number

of

Students

Median Student

Evaluation

(Scale: 1 – 6)

ST 443/543 Applied Stochastic Models Spring 2014 10

ST 652 Theory of Linear Models II Spring 2014 15

ST 562 Theory of Statistics II Winter 2014 20

ST 557 Applied Multivariate Analysis Autumn 2013 20 5.1

ST 563 Theory of Statistics III Spring 2013 20 5.6

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ST 443/543 Applied Stochastic Models Spring 2013 20 5.5

ST 422/522 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics Winter 2013 30 5.5

ST 551 Statistical Methods I Autumn 2012 30 5.6

ST 507 Research Seminar Autumn 2012 30 5.8

ST 443/543 Applied Stochastic Models Spring 2012 15 5.8


ST 551 Statistical Methods I Autumn 2011 25 5.0

ST 557 Applied Multivariate Analysis Spring 2011 30 5.8


Advising

Ph.D. Committee Major Advisor

2013 – Present Nima Dolatnia

2012 – Present Tim Skalland (co-advised with Paul Murtaugh)

Ph.D. Committee Member

2012 – Present Gu Mi

Masters Committee Primary Advisor

2014 Chloe Collins

2013 Nima Dolatnia

2013 Nick Sullivan

2013 Elise Rapoza

2012 Rose Hart (Non-thesis Oral Exam June 4, 2012)

2012 Tim Skalland (Non-thesis Oral Exam March 20, 2012)

2011 Evercita Eugenio (Non-thesis Oral Exam March 2, 2011)

Masters Committee Member

2014 Benjamin Armstrong

2014 Jaret Keniston

2013 Danlin Wang

2012 Ziyi Jin (Non-thesis Oral Exam June 7, 2012)

2012 Chaozhe Liu (Non-thesis Oral Exam June 1, 2012)

2011 Gu Mi (Non-thesis Oral Exam June 3, 2011)

2012 Andrew Burkey (Non-thesis Oral Exam March 8, 2012)

2012 Branwyn Jaeger (Non-thesis Oral Exam March 5, 2012)

2012 Nathan Palmer (Non-thesis Oral Exam March 21, 2012)

Ph.D. Committee Minor Advisor

2013 – Present Nathaniel Osborne

2012 – Present Takeaki Toma (Major: Industrial Engineering)

2012 – Present Emily Caffrey (Major: Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics)

2012 – Present Aswin Nadamuni Raghavan (Major: Computer Science)

2012 – Present Fan Zhang (Major: Civil Engineering)

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Ph.D. Committee Graduate Council Representative

2012 – Present Austin Lowder (Major: Food Science)

Masters Committee Graduate Council Representative

2013 – Present Chiara De Caro Carella (Major: Veterinary Medicine)

2013 – Present Margaret Cohn-Urbach (Major: Veterinary Medicine)

Masters Committee Minor Advisor

Pablo Romero

2013 Shooka Darabi

2012 Emily Caffrey (Major: Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, Thesis Oral Exam

October 2, 2012)

2012 Dong-wook Kim (Major: Forest Engineering, Thesis Oral Exam June 6, 2012)

2012 Seth Wiggins (Major: Economics, Thesis Oral Exam June 1, 2012)

2012 Ioana Cosma (Major: Civil Engineering, Thesis Oral Exam May 11, 2012)

2012 Chih-Wei Liu (Major: Biostatistics, Non-thesis Oral Exam Marcy 19, 2012)

MAIS Advisor

2014 - 2015 Alyssa Raymond

2013 - 2014 Pamela Lundeberg

2013 - 2014 Nathan Herdener


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Ruth Emerson, Sarah Emerson, Deborah Donnell, and James P. Hughes. Choosing a metric for measurement of

pre-exposure prophylaxis. (Accepted for publication in Lancet Infectious Disease, 2014) [Emerson collaborated

on formulating comparisons of metrics and on writing.]

Sarah Emerson, Kenneth Ruzicka, and Charlotte Wickham. Rethinking the linear regression model for spatial

ecological data: Comment. (Accepted for publication in Ecology, 2014) [Emerson formulated and ran

simulation models, co-wrote manuscript.]

Ryszard A. Zielke, Ryan S. Simmons, Bo R. Park, Mariko Nonogaki, Sarah Emerson, and Aleksandra E. Sikora.

The type II secretion pathway in Vibrio cholerae is characterized by growth-phase dependent expression of

exoprotein genes and is positively regulated by sigmaE. (Accepted for publication in Infection and Immunity

2014) [Emerson performed analyses and contributed to the statistical methods section of the manuscript to help

respond to a reviewer requesting more statistical analyses to differentiate eps-lux activity of different cholera

strains under different temperature conditions.]

Gregory P. Levin, Sarah C. Emerson, and Scott S. Emerson. An evaluation of inferential procedures for adaptive

clinical trial designs with pre-specified rules for modifying the sample size. (Accepted for publication in

Biometrics 2014) [Emerson developed computational approach, participated in design of simulations, reviewed

and advised on content of manuscript.]

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Sarah Emerson and Scott Emerson. Detecting differential gene expression in subgroups of a disease population.

(Accepted for publication in The International Journal of Biostatistics 2014) [Emerson identified issues in

original manuscript, performed validity checks and new simulations, formulated theoretical analysis, co-wrote

manuscript.]

Yuan Jiang, Sarah Emerson, Lu Wang, Lujing Li, and Yanming Di. Family-Based Association Test Using Normal

Approximation to Gene Dropping Null Distribution. (Accepted for publication in the Genetic Analysis

Workshop 18 Proceedings) [Emerson performed comparison of methods, constructed table/figure summarizing

results, participated in editing and responding to review.]

Yanming Di, Sarah C. Emerson, Daniel W. Schafer, Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, and Jeff H. Chang. Higher Order

Asymptotics for Negative Binomial Regression Inferences from RNASequencing Data. (Accepted for

publication in Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 2013) [Emerson performed

confirmatory simulations and participated in manuscript editing.]

Gregory P. Levin, Sarah C. Emerson, and Scott S. Emerson. Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs with Pre-specified

Rules for Modifying the Sample Size Based on the Interim Estimate of Treatment Effect. Statistics in Medicine

2013, Vol. 32, No. 8 [Emerson developed computational approach, participated in design of simulations,

reviewed and advised on content of manuscript.]

Gu Mi, Yanming Di, Sarah Emerson, Jason Cumbie, and Jeff Chang. Length Bias Correction in Gene Ontology

Enrichment Analysis Using Logistic Regression. PLoS ONE 2012 Vol. 7, No. 10 [Emerson contributed

advisory and editorial support.]

Paul A. Murtaugh, Sarah C. Emerson, Peter B. McEvoy, and Kimberley M. Higgs. The Statistical Analysis of

Insect Phenology. Environmental Entomology 2012 Vol. 41, Issue 2, 355-361 [Emerson developed

methodology and performed simulations, contributed to writing of methodology descriptions.]

Sushrut S. Waikar, Rebecca A. Betensky, Sarah C. Emerson, and Joseph V. Bonventre. Fool’s Gold Standards in

Studies of Diagnostic Test Accuracy: The Case of Serum Creatinine for Acute Kidney Injury. Journal of the

American Society of Nephrology 2012, Vol. 23, No. 1, 13-21 [Emerson developed numerical results and

bounds, produced examples, and advised on and contributed to wording of statistical sections.]

Scott S. Emerson, Gregory P. Levin, and Sarah C. Emerson. Comments on “Adaptive Increase in Sample Size

when Interim Results are Promising: A Practical Guide with Examples”. Statistics in Medicine 2011, Vol. 30,

Issue 28, 3285-3301 [Emerson discussed and participated in selection of response points and reviewed the

manuscript.]

Sarah Emerson, Kyle Rudser, and Scott Emerson. Exploring the benefits of adaptive sequential clinical trial

designs in time-to-event endpoint settings. Statistics in Medicine 2011, Vol. 30, Issue 11, 1199-1217

[Emersion developed the computational approach, designed examples and comparison metrics, performed all

computations, wrote manuscript.]

Sarah Emerson and Art Owen. Improving the calibration of non-parametric empirical likelihood confidence

regions in high dimensions. Electronic Journal of Statistics 2009, Vol. 3, 1161-1192. [Emerson developed the

methodology, proved theoretical results, devised and performed simulations, wrote manuscript.]

Rebecca A. Hutchinson, Jonathon J. Valente, Sarah C. Emerson, Matthew G. Betts, and Thomas G. Dietterich.

Penalized Likelihood Methods Improve Parameter Estimates in Occupancy Models. (Submitted to Methods in

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Ecology and Evolution) [Emerson consulted on methods and simulations, and contributed to manuscript writing

and editing.]

Timothy Skalland and Sarah C. Emerson. Comparing different methods of handling overrun in group sequential

trials. (Submitted to Statistics in Medicine). [Emerson advised student Timothy Skalland in carrying out

simulations and preparing manuscript.]

Timothy Skalland and Sarah C. Emerson. Control of FWER when testing a Primary and Secondary Endpoint in a

Group Sequential Design. (Submitted to Biometrics) [Emerson advised student Timothy Skalland in carrying

out proofs and preparing manuscript.]

Sarah Emerson, Sushrut S. Waikar, Joseph V. Bonventre, and Rebecca Betensky. Biomarker Validation with an

Imperfect Reference: Bounds and Issues. (Submitted to The American Statistician) [Emerson developed

methodology, proved theoretical results, constructed examples, wrote manuscript.]

SHORT COURSES TAUGHT

2014 Summer Institute in Statistics for Clinical Research, University of Washington

“Adaptive Sample Size Re-estimation: Design and Inference”

[Will be co-taught with Gregory Levin]

INVITED ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS

2013 Oregon State University Department of Statistics Research Seminar

“Alternatives to penalization for sparse models”

2013 Oregon Health Sciences University Public Health and Preventative Medicine Grand Rounds

“Biomarker Validation with an Imperfect Reference: Bounds and Issues”

2012 Portland State University The Maseeh Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series


2011 Oregon State University Department of Statistics Research Seminar


2011 Meeting of the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society, San

Luis Obispo, California (Invited Session Organizer and Chair)

“Inference Following Selection Procedures and Sequential Stopping Rules”

2011 Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami, Florida (Invited Discussant)

“Likelihood, Nuisance Parameter, and Estimation Efficiency: Discussion”

CONTRIBUTED ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS

2013 Joint Statistical Meetings, Montreal, Quebec


2012 Meeting of the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society,

Ft. Collins, Colorado, Washington (Oral Presentation)


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2010 Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics: Clinical Trials (Poster Presentation)

“Inference for adaptive designs using group sequential methods”

2010 Meeting of the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society,

Seattle, Washington (Oral Presentation)

“Calibration of the Empirical Likelihood Method for a Vector Mean”

2010 Meeting of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society, New

Orleans, Louisiana (Oral Presentation)


2008 Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado (Poster Presentation)

“Exploring the benefits of adaptive sequential designs in time-to-event endpoint settings”

2008 International Biometric Conference, Dublin, Ireland (Oral Presentation)

“Exploring the benefits of adaptive sequential designs in time-to-event endpoint settings”

2007 Meeting of the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society, Irvine,

California (Oral Presentation)

“Adaptive modification of patient accrual in survival analysis”

2006 Workshop Statistics for Genome-wide Copy Number Analyses in Cancer Research, Palo Alto,

California (Oral Presentation)

“Identifying missing segments in the genomes of species from a common ancestral source”

GRANT SUPPORT

Year(s) Agency PI(s)/Co-PI(s) Title Amount

2012 – 2015 NIH/NIGMS Di, Chang,

Emerson, Zhang

NB Regression and HOA Inference

for RNA-Seq Gene Expression

Analysis

$40, 579

(Amount to

Emerson)

D. SERVICE

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

2013 – Present Search Committee

2011 – Present Curriculum Committee

2011 – Present Comprehensive Exam Committee

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Review Panels

2014 NIH BMRD Early Career Research Panel Member

2012 Joint NSF DMS/NIGMS Review Panel Member

Offices Held

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2013 WNAR Program Chair

2012 - 2014 WNAR Regional Representative

2012 WNAR Student Paper Competition Judge

Refereeing

2013 - 2014 Statistics and Computing

2013 The American Statistician

2013 Journal of Statistical Software

2012 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B

2012 Biometrika

2012 – 2014 BMC Medical Research Methodology

2012 Statistics in Medicine

2012 Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods

2011 – 2012 Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

2010 – 2012 Biostatistics

2008 Statistical Methods and Applications

SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC (NON-PROFESSIONALLY RELATED)

2003 – 2004 Stanford Youth Program (SYP), Stanford University, Stanford, California

Tutoring elementary school students in Spanish immersion classes and regular classes

2003 – 2004 East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring (EPATT), Stanford University, Stanford, California

Tutoring elementary school students from East Palo Alto

2001 – 2001 Women and Youth Supporting Each other (WYSE), Stanford University, Stanford, California

Mentoring program working with middle-school age girls in East Palo Alto

E. AWARDS

2013 Oregon State Statistics Students Organization Teaching Award

For ‘Significant Contribution to the Educational Experience of Statistics Students’

2012 Oregon State Statistics Students Organization Teaching Award

For ‘Significant Contribution to the Educational Experience of Statistics Students’

2008 Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford University

2001 – 2004 Robert C. Byrd Scholarship

2001 National Merit Scholar

Alix I GitelmanAssociate Professor

Department of StatisticsOregon State University

(541) [email protected]

www.stat.oregonstate.edu.content/gitelman-alix


Education

PhD Statistics 1999 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

MS Statistics 1995 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

MS Mathematics 1994 Portland State University, Portland OR

BA Computer Science 1987 Columbia University, New York NY

Employment

Jun 2005–present Associate ProfessorDepartment of StatisticsOregon State University

Sep 1999–May 2005 Assistant ProfessorDepartment of StatisticsOregon State University

Sep 1998–Jun 1999 Spencer Foundation Dissertation FellowCarnegie Mellon University

Aug 1994-Aug 1998 Teaching/Research AssistantDepartment of StatisticsCarnegie Mellon University

Sep 1992–Jun 1994 Teaching AssistantDepartment of Mathematical SciencesPortland State University

Mar 1988–Jun 1992 Applications ProgrammerADPPortland OR

Jun 1987–Jun 1988 Research AssistantThe Gartner GroupStamford CT

B. SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

Refereed Publications

Romer, J.D., Gitelman, A.I., Clements, S., and Schreck, C.B. Designing a monitoringprogram to estimate estuarine survival of anadromous salmon smolts, under revisionfor PLos One December, 2014.

Sun, L. and Gitelman, A.I. (2014) Two sample comparisons for non-normal data: Amultivariate permutation test, Communications in Statistics, accepted.

Taylor, A.E., Vajrala, N., Giguere, A.T., Gitelman, A.I., Arp, D.J., Myrold, D.D.,Sayaverdra-Soto, L., and Bottemley, P.J. (2013) Use of aliphatic n-alkynes to dis-criminate soil nitrification activities of ammonia-oxidizing thaumarchaea and bacte-ria, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79, 21, 6544–6551.

Marley, K., Helfand, S.C., Edris, W.A., Mata, J.E., Gitelman, A.I., Medlock, J., andSeguin, B. (2013) The effects of taurolidine alone and in combination with doxoru-bicin or carboplatin in canine osteosarcoma in vitro, BMC Veterinary Research 9(1), 15.

Wing, B.M., Ritchie, M.W., Boston, K., Cohen, W.B., Gitelman, A.I., and Olsen, M.J.(2012) Prediction of understory vegetation cover with airborne lidar in an interiorponderosa pine forest, Remote Sensing of the Environment 124, 730–741.

Irvine, K.M. and Gitelman, A.I. (2011) Graphical spatial models: a new view on inter-preting spatial pattern, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 18, 447–469.

Fritsch, A., Gitelman, A. and Shellhammer, T.H. (2010) Using a change-point model todescribe temporal bitter relationships among hop-derived compounds, Food Qualityand Preference, 21, 820–826.

Clemens, B.J., Clements, S.P., Karnowski, M.D., Jepsen, D.B., Gitelman, A.I., andSchreck, C.B. (2009) Effects of transportation and other factors on survival estimatesof juvenile salmonids in the unimpounded lower Columbia River. Transactions ofthe American Fisheries Society 138 (1), 169–188.

Dunham, S.M., Ganio, L.M, Gitelman, A.I., and Lachenbruch, B.L. (2008) Partitioningvariation among multiple scales via a Bayesian hierarchical model for xylem proper-ties in Douglas-fir, Tree Physiology, 28, 1017–1024.

Simpson, J.M., Seguin, B. and Gitelman, A.I. (2008) Effects of topical application oftaurolidine on second intention healing of experimentally induced wounds in rats,American Journal of Veterinary Research, 69 (9), 1210–1216.

Chelgren, N.D., Rosenberg, D.K., Heppell, S.S., and Gitelman, A.I. (2008) Individualvariation affects departure rate from the natal pond in an ephemeral pond-breedinganuran, Canadian Journal of Zoology 886 (4) 260–267.

Irvine, K.M., Gitelman, A.I. and Hoeting, J.A. (2007) Spatial design and properties ofspatial correlation: effects on covariance estimation, Journal of Agricultural, Biolog-ical and Environmental Statistics, 12 (4), 1–20.

Gitelman, A.I. and Herlihy, A. (2007) Isomorphic chain graphs for spatial dependencein ecological data Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 14, 27–40.

Brooks, R.P., Patil, G.P., Fei, S., Gitelman, A.I. Myers, W.L., and Reavie, E.D. (2007)Next generation of ecological indicators of wetland condition, EcoHealth 4 (2) 176–178.

Dailey, M.C., Gitelman, A.I., Ramsey, F.L., and Starcevich, S. (2007) Habitat selec-tion models to account for seasonal persistence in radio telemetry data Journal ofEnvironmental and Ecological Statistics, 14, 55–68.

Chelgren, N.D., Rosenberg, D.K., Heppell, S.S., and Gitelman, A.I. (2006) Carry-overaquatic effects on survival of metamorphic frogs during pond emigration EcologicalApplications, Vol. 16, No. 1, 250–261.

Gitelman, A.I. (2005) Estimating causal effects from multilevel group-allocation data,Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 30, 397–412.

Van Tuyl, S., Law, B., Turner, D., and Gitelman, A.I. (2005) Variability in net primaryproduction and biomass across Oregon forests—An assessment integrating data fromforest inventories, intensive sites, and remote sensing Forest Ecology and Manage-ment, 209 (3), 273–291.

Ball, D.A., Frost, S.M. and Gitelman, A.I. (2004) Predicting timing of downy bromeBromus tectorum seed production using growing degree-days. Weed Science 52 518–524.

McCune, B., Berryman, S.D., Cissel, J.H., and Gitelman, A.I. (2003) Use of a scat-terplot smoother to forecast occurrence of epiphytic lichens under alternative forestmanagement plans. Ecological Applications 13(4) 1110–1123.

Tableman, M. and Gitelman, A.I. (2002) The scaled α-winsorized estimate of exponentialscale for censored data: an analysis based on two influence functions,Statistics andProbability Letters 59 2, 169–181.

Monleon, V.J., Gitelman, A.I. and Gray, A.N. (2002) Multi-scale relationships betweencoarse woody debris and presence/absence of western hemlock in the Oregon CoastRange. Gatsonis, C., Kass, R.E., Carriquiry, A., Gelman, A., Higdon, D., Pauler,D.K. & Verdinelli, I. eds. Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, Vol. VI. Springer-Verlag: New York. 311–318.

Gitelman, A.I., Risbey, J., Kass, R.E., and Rosen, R.D. (1999) Sensitivity of a meridionaltemperature gradient index to latitudinal domain. Journal of Geophysical Research,Vol. 104, No. D14, 16,709–16,717.

Gitelman, A.I., Risbey, J., Kass, R.E. and Rosen, R.D. (1997) Trends in the surfacemeridional temperature gradient. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 24 No. 10,1243–1246.

Non-refereed Publications

Schafer, D.W. and Gitelman, A.I. (2010) Critical Evaluation of Statistical Arguments.On-line textbook materials for ST201 and ST209 at Oregon State University (notcurrently being used).

English, M., Sayde, C., Gitelman, A.I., and Khoury, L. (2008) A feedback system tooptimize crop water use estimates in irrigation scheduling. IN: World Environmental& Water Resources Congress 2008 , May 13-16, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Sayde, C., Khoury, L., Gitelman, A., and English, M. (2008) Optimizing estimates ofsoil moisture for irrigation scheduling. ASABE paper number: 084699. ASABE, St.Joseph, MI.

Dykeman, C., Wood, C., Ingram, M., Gitelman, A., Mandsager, N. Chen, M-Y., andHerr, E.L. (2003) Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy andmotivation: a pilot study. National Research Center for Career and Technical Edu-cation, University of Minnesota.

Gitelman, A.I. (2000), Experimental Design: Compliance. International Encyclopediaof the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Junker, B.J. and Gitelman A.I. (2000) Discussion of ‘The Bayesian Analysis of theNew York School Choice Scholarship Program: A Randomized Experiment withNon-Compliance and Missing Data,’ Barnard, et al. in Case Studies in BayesianStatistics, Vol. V., Carlin, B., Carriquiry, A.L., Gatsonis, G., Gelman, A., Kass,R.E., Verdinelli, I., and West, M. (eds). Springer-Verlag: New York.

Manuscripts Submitted/in Preparation

Boersma, K.S., Dee, L.E., Miller, S.J., Bogan, M.T., Lytle, D.A., and Gitelman, A.I.Linking multidimensional functional diversity to ecological theory: A graphical hy-pothesis driven framework, submitted to Ecology September, 2014.

Sun, L., Gitelman, A.I. and Tzburczy, J. A zero-inflated beta hidden Markov modelfor ecological processes. In preparation for Journal of Biological, Agricultural andEnvironmental Statistics

Wolf, C. Novak, M. and Gitelman, A.I. Estimation of food web interaction strengthsfrom observational data using Bayesian methods. In preparation for Methods inEcology and Evolution

Gitelman, A.I. and Irvine, K.M. Model comparison for ecosystem disturbance pathways.To be submitted to Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Che, X. and Gitelman, A.I. Spatial graphical models with non-Normal components. Tobe submitted to Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.

Comiskey, C., Wickham, C. and Gitelman, A.I. Relating Fisher Information and EffectiveSample Size in AR(1) Models. To be submitted to Communications in Statistics

Wickham, C., Comiskey, C. and Gitelman, A.I. Trend detection in time series with smallsample sizes. To be submitted to Ecological Applications

Gitelman, A.I. A Practical Guide to Bayesian Modeling, textbook in preparation.

Professional Meetings—Presentations

Model comparison for ecosystem disturbance pathways, invited talk at Graybill/ENVRConference 2014, Fort Collins.

History of the Section on Statistics and the Environment, invited poster at the JointStatistical Meetings (JSM) 2014, Boston.

Statistical consulting and the tenure track, invited panel discussion participant at JSM2014, Boston.

Spatial prediction using multivariate data structures, invited talk in topic contributedsession at JSM 2013, Montreal.

Managing your environmetrics career, invited panel discussion participant at The Inter-national Environmetrics Society meeting 2013, Anchorage.

Multivariate Spatial models with discrete and continuous components, presented at SuS-Tain, Structure and Uncertainty Conference 2012 Bristol, UK.

Interpreting spatial pattern with graphical models, invited talk at Western North Ameri-can Region of the Biometrics Society Meeting (WNAR) 2010, Seattle.

Estimating Soil Moisture Depletion from Multiple Data Sources, invited talk for theMontana Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 2008, Butte.

A Second Course in Statistics at Oregon State University, presented at JSM 2006, Seat-tle.

Consulting in (and around) the Bayesian Paradigm, invited round table discussion atJSM 2006, Seattle.

Bayesian Network Models to Account for Correlation Across Scales, invited talk at Eco-logical Society of America/The International Association for Ecology meeting 2005,Montreal.

Connecting Correlated GIS Predictors in a Bayes Network Model, contributed talk (andsession organizer), WNAR 2005, Fairbanks.

Chain Graph Models for Spatial Dependence in Ecological Data, talk at the joint STARMAP/DAMARS meeting 2004, Fort Collins.

Isomorphic Chain Graphs for Modeling Spatial Dependence in Ecological Data, invitedtalk at the Graybill Conference 2004, Fort Collins.

Causal Modeling for Aquatic Resources, talk at the joint STARMAP/DAMARS meeting2003, Corvallis.

Spatial Dependence in Bayesian Belief Networks, contributed talk at JSM 2003, SanFrancisco.

A Bayesian Analysis of Data with Hierarchical Changepoint, contributed talk at JSM2002, New York.

Causal Modeling of Macro-Invertebrate Data, invited talk at Oregon Chapter of the ASAmeeting 2002, Corvallis.

Professional Meetings—Participation

The 24th Annual International Environmetrics Society (TIES) Conference 2014, GuangzhouPRC: invited to organize a session.

Graybill/ENVR (The American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and theEnvironment) Workshop 2014, Fort Collins: Organizing committee co-chair.

Graybill/ENVR Workshop 2014, Fort Collins: PhD student Christopher Wolf posterpresentation, Estimation of food web interaction strengths from observational data:A Bayesian approach.

JSM 2014, Boston: ENVR activities (Chair).

The 23rd Annual TIES Conference 2014, Anchorage: Scientific committee.

JSM 2013, Montreal: ENVR activities (Chair-Elect).

JSM 2013, Montreal: PhD student Luna Sun contributed talk, Two-sample comparisonsfor non-Normal data.

JSM 2013, Montreal: PhD student Xuan Che contributed talk, Spatial graphical modelsfor high dimensional lattice data.

Workshop on causal inference and graphical models 2012, Gainesville: PhD studentXuan Che contributed poster, Spatial graphical models with discrete and continuouscomponents.

JSM 2011, Miami Beach: ENVR activities (Council of Sections Representative).

JSM 2010, Vancouver: ENVR activities (Council of Sections Representative).

JSM 2010, Vancouver: PhD Student Daniel Yang contributed poster: Improving the biasand variance of the classic propensity score sub-classification adjustment estimatorwith a simple alternative weight.

Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society/Institute ofMathematical Statistics (WNAR/IMS) 2010, Seattle: invited session, Spatial De-pendence in Ecological Data.

JSM 2009, Washington, D.C.: ENVR activities (Council of Sections Representative).

The 2nd TIES North American Regional Meeting 2009, Corvallis: organizing committee.

The 1st TIES North American Regional Meeting 2007, Seattle: PhD student KathrynIrvine contributed talk: Connections between Graphical Models and Models for Mul-tivariate Spatial Data.

JSM 2006, Seattle: PhD student Kathryn Irvine contributed talk, Strength of SpatialCorrelation and Spatial Designs: Effects on Covariance Estimation.

WNAR/IMS 2005, Fairbanks: PhD student Kathryn Georgitis (now Irvine) invited talk:Estimation and Model Selection for Geostatistical Models.

Statistics for Aquatic Resources: Monitoring, Modeling, and Management Conference2005, Corvallis: PhD student Kathryn Georgitis (now Irvine)contributed talk, Con-necting Correlated GIS Predictors using Graphical Models.

JSM 2004, Toronto: former MS student Megan Dailey (now Higgs) contributed talk,Habitat selection models accounting for seasonal persistence in animals tracked usingradio-telemetry.

Graybill Conference 2004, Fort Collins: former MS student Megan Dailey (now Higgs)contributed poster: Habitat selection models accounting for seasonal persistence inanimals tracked using radio-telemetry.

TIES/Spatial Accuracy Conference 2004, Portland, ME: PhD student Kathryn Georgitis(now Irvine) contributed poster: Multi-scale analysis: approaches and comparisons.

University Seminars, Other Symposia

On Monitoring Estuarine Smolt Survival, invited talk at Linfield College MathematicsDepartment Colloquium, McMinnville OR, 2012.

On Monitoring Estuarine Smolt Survival, invited talk at Willamette University Mathe-matics Department Colloquium, Salem OR, 2012.

On Monitoring Estuarine Smolt Survival, invited talk at Oregon State University AppliedMathematics and Computation Seminar, 2012.

On Monitoring Estuarine Smolt Survival, invited talk at the Willamette Valley REU-RET Consortium for Mathematics Research at Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR,2012.

Fostering Productive Collaborations, invited presentation at Advancing toward Profes-sorship in Biology, Ecology and Earth Systems Sciences Conference, Corvallis, 2012.

A Bayesian Method for Modeling Soil Moisture Depletion, OSU Statistics DepartmentResearch Seminar, 2008.

Bayesian Modelling for Non-Statisticians: Some Pedagogical Challenges, Oregon Chap-ter of the American Statistical Association, Corvallis, 2008.

Bayesian Modeling for Non-Statisticians: Some Pedagogical Challenges, invited talk atMontana State Univ., Dept of Mathematical Sciences, Bozeman, 2008.

Applications of Bayesian Statistics to Ecological Questions, OSU Department of Botanyand Plant Pathology Research Seminar, 2008.

Applications of Bayesian Statistics to Ecological Questions, OSU Ecosystem InformaticsIGERT Colloquium, 2006.

Spatial Dependence in Bayesian Belief Networks OSU Statistics Department ResearchSeminar, 2003.

Bayesian Belief Networks: Some Statistical Issues, OSU Department of Computer Sci-ence Research seminar, 2002.

Causal Modeling of Macro-Invertebrate Data Colorado State University Statistics De-partment Research Seminar, Fort Collins, 2002.

Causal Modeling in Observational Data: Where’s the Beef? OSU Statistics DepartmentResearch Seminar 2001.

Causal Modeling in Observational Data: Where’s the Beef? EPA Lab Seminar, Corvallis,2001.

Defining a Research Identity, presentation for The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fel-lows Spring meeting, Seattle, 2001.

On Entering Academia presentation for The Spencer Foundation Dissertation FellowsSpring meeting, New Orleans, 2000.

Evolution of a Change-Point Model Solution, Reed College, Department of MathematicsColloquium, Portland OR, 2000.

Within-group Dependence and Hierarchical Models, OSU Department of Math and Sci-ence Education Seminar, 2000.

Within-group Dependence and Hierarchical Models, Portland State University Depart-ment of Mathematical Sciences Research Seminar, 1999.

Grant and Contract Support

· Funded

Environmental Health Sciences Center Pilot Project Grant, 2011, “Linking PAHExposure to Health Outcomes Using a Unified Bayesian Modeling Approach.”Role: Co-Principal Investigator (with John Molitor, Department of Public Health).Award amount: $25,000.

Sub-contract with UC Davis for work on a project with researchers in Water Re-sources Engineering, “An advisory service for optimum irrigation in California,”2008–2010. Role: Co-Principal Investigator (P.I. Marshall English). Awardamount: $24,638.

Research Program on Statistical Survey Design and Analysis for Aquatic Resources,Environmental Protection Agency STAR Grant, 2001–2005 “Designs and Modelsfor Aquatic Resource Surveys.” Role: Co-investigator (P.I. Don Stevens). Totalaward: $2,989,884.

Research Program on Statistical Survey Design and Analysis for Aquatic Resources,Environmental Protection Agency STAR Grant, 2001–2005. Sub-award betweenColorado State University and Oregon State University, “Modeling of StatisticalSurveys.” Role: Principal Investigator for OSU sub-award (P.I. for full grant: N.Scott Urquhart). Total subcontract amount: $459,535 (total award: $2,998,331).

· Pending

National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program–Data-Enabled Scienceand Engineering, 2014, “Risk and Uncertainty Quantification in Marine Sci-ence and Policy.” Role: Co-Principal Investigator (P.I. Lorenzo Ciannelli) Totalamount requested: $2,999,395.

Statistical Consulting Activities

· Statistical consulting for over 90 researchers at Oregon State University, mostly inthe College of Agricultural Sciences.

· Independent consulting with eight organizations outside of OSU.

· Occasional oversight of the Statistical Consulting Practicum for graduate studentsin the Department of Statistics.

C. TEACHING, ADVISING, AND OTHER ASSIGNMENTS

Instructional SummaryCredit Courses

Course Course Name (credits) Term Enrollment

MTH111* Introduction to College Algebra (4) Fall 1992 40MTH111* Introduction to College Algebra Winter 1993 40MTH112* Introduction to Trigonometry (4) Spring 1993 45MTH243* Introduction to Statistics (4) Fall 1993 45MTH244* Introduction to Statistics II (4) Winter 1994 45MTH243* Introduction to Statistics Spring 1994 50ST201** Statistical Reasoning (3) Summer 1997 22ST201 Introduction to Statistics (3) Fall 1999 79ST411/511 Methods of Data Analysis (4) Winter 2000 3/60ST551 Statistical Methods (4) Fall 2000 13ST599 Topics Course: Bayesian Statistics (3) Winter 2001 17ST411/511 Methods of Data Analysis Fall 2001 7/132ST565 Time Series and Spatial Statistics (3) Spring 2002 20ST551 Statistical Methods Fall 2002 18ST599 Topics Course: Bayesian Statistics Winter 2003 13ST412/512 Methods of Data Analysis II (4) Spring 2003 4/43ST552 Statistical Methods II (4) Winter 2004 13ST565 Time Series and Spatial Statistics Spring 2004 33ST551 Statistical Methods Fall 2004 20ST559 Bayesian Statistics (3) Winter 2005 18ST412/512 Methods of Data Analysis II Spring 2005 1/50ST411/511 Methods of Data Analysis Fall 2005 17/122ST413/513 Methods of Data Analysis III (4) Spring 2006 2/38ST411/511 Methods of Data Analysis Fall 2006 12/116ST559 Bayesian Statistics Winter 2007 33ST551 Statistical Methods Fall 2007 22ST412/512 Methods of Data Analysis II Spring 2008 2/41ST411/511 Methods of Data Analysis Fall 2008 13/134ST559 Bayesian Statistics Winter 2009 27ST413/513 Methods of Data Analysis III Spring 2010 1/26ST565 Time Series and Spatial Statistics Spring 2010 30ST559 Bayesian Statistics Winter 2011 39ST413/513 Methods of Data Analysis III Spring 2011 1/32ST623 Generalized Regression Models (3) Fall 2011 14ST599 Topics Course: Environmental Stats (3) Winter 2012 13ST623 Generalized Regression Models Fall 2012 18ST559 Bayesian Statistics Winter 2013 35ST557 Applied Multivariate Analysis (3) Spring 2013 30ST623 Generalized Regression Models Fall 2013 23ST559 Bayesian Statistics Spring 2014 26ST599+ Statistical Computing and Big Data (3) Spring 2014 25

* At Portland State University (quarter system; enrollments approximate)

* At Carnegie Mellon University (semester system; enrollment approximate)+Co-taught with Charlotte Wickham

Reading and conference courses

Course Term EnrollmentStatistical Computing* Winter 2006 3

Spatial Statistics Spring 2013 1

*with Lisa Madsen

Non-Credit Courses and Workshops

Title Audience YearBayesian Methods Fisheries/Wildlife Graduate Students 2010Statistics with R* College of Agricultural Sciences 2014

*with Charlotte Wickham

Invited to present a one-day workshop on Introductory Applied Bayesian Statistics atthe Second Annual Graduate Workshop on Environmental Data Analytics, hosted by theNational Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO, July 2015.


· Developed/taught new course in Bayesian Statistics (now ST559), 2001.

· Developed materials for use in Bayesian Statistics, 2005 (and on-going).

· Updated/taught Time Series and Spatial Statistics using R and covering more ap-plied methods, 2003.

· Developed/taught topics course (ST599) in Environmental (spatial) Statistics, 2011.

Graduate Students

· Department of Statistics PhD Students Supervised (Gitelman typically meets

with PhD students once per week, and with increased frequency around exam, conferences and

paper submissions)

Student Graduation Current EmploymentKathryn Irvine 2008 USGS, Bozeman MTYan Fang* 2011 Shanghai Int’l Business

and Economics UnivXuan Che 2012 NIH, Washington D.C.Danny Yang** 2012 BLS, Washington D.C.Luna Sun 2014 Monsanto, St. Louis MOChris Wolf 2016Chris Comiskey+ 2017

*Co-advised with Lisa Madsen*Co-advised with Virginia Lesser+Co-advising with Charlotte Wickham

Graduate Students (cont’d)

· Department of Statistics MS Committees Chaired (Non-thesis MS degrees require

a 3 credit research project in lieu of thesis. Gitelman typically spent one hour per week with each

advisee during the term that he/she completed the research project)

Student Year Student YearJoseph Larson 2002 Jinna Liu 2008Megan Dailey 2003 Kate Lovinger 2008John Schilp 2003 Xiaoyu Chai 2009Justin Smith 2003 Allison Furey 2009Stephen Jensen 2004 Patrick McCann 2009Chelsea McElwain-Carter 2004 James Power* 2011Pei-Ling Wu 2004 Meiden Bu 2012Charlie Gerringer 2005 Branwyn Jaeger 2012Susan Hornsby 2005 Matthew Nahorniak 2012Brent Balgooyen 2006 Malcolm Itter 2013Michael Perozzi 2006 Lin Qin 2013Douglas Larmour 2007 Gina Shellhammer 2013Hee Bun Lee* 2007 Christopher Wolf 2013Emily Thielman 2007 Hai Yang 2013Xiaofeng Wang 2007 Christopher Comiskey 2014Yang Xu* 2007 Shubhomoy Das 2014

*Did not earn degree

· Eight additional Statistics PhD committees

· 31 PhD committees outside of Statistics

· 25 MS committees outside of Statistics

Team and Collaborative Efforts

· Co-developed and co-taught (with Charlotte Wickham) a special topics course,ST599 Statistical Computing and Big Data, Spring 2014

· On-going development of a Masters program in Data Analytics, in collaborationwith other faculty in Statistics (Yanming Di, Robert Smythe, Charlotte Wickham)and faculty in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Terri Fiez, Weng-KeenWong). Efforts to date involve preparing Category I and II proposals and coursedevelopment.

D. SERVICE

University Service

· Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 2014–present

· College of Science Associate Dean Search, 2013

· College of Science Awards Committee, 2012–present

· University Curriculum Council (included Math department review), 2012–2013

· Search Advocate for the Director of the Difference, Power and Discrimination Search2012–2013

· Faculty Senate, 2012–13, 2005-07

· Search Advocate for Geospatial Intelligence and Planning Leadership Position 2012

· Faculty Marshall at Graduation, 2012

· Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs audit for the Office of AffirmativeAction, 2009–2010

· College of Science Associate Dean Search Committee, 2008

· Statistics Department Search Committee Chair, 2008

· Committee to Evaluate Student-Athlete Academic Support Services, 2008

· College of Science Committee on Diversity, 2006 (Chair)

· Department of Food Science and Technology Assistant Professor Search, 2006

· Director of Interdisciplinary Programs and Director MAIS Search Committees, 2006

· Graduate Council (included graduate program reviews for Fisheries & Wildlife andIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering), 2005-07

· Affirmative Action Forum 2003

· University Issues Group: Undergraduate Admissions, 2000-2002

· Science Connections, Oregon State University, 1999

Department Service

· Methods Exam Committee, 2013–present, 2000–2006

· Distance Education Committee, 2012–present

· Mentoring of Charlotte Wickham, 2012–present

· Director of Graduate Studies, 2005–2012 (except for Jan–Jun 2007 while on sabbat-ical)

· Graduate Committee, 2005–2013

· Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005–present

· Faculty Search Committee Chair, 2010/11, 2008/09

Department Service (cont’d)

· University Statistics Colloquium Series Chair 2012–2013

· Faculty Research Assistant Search Committee, 2008

· Faculty Search Committee, 2014, 2010, 2005, 2003

· Computer Committee, 1999–2004

Professional Service

· Co-Chair of Organizing Committee for the 2014 Graybill/ENVR Conference, FortCollins

· American Statistical Association (ASA), Section on Statistics and the Environment(ENVR) Chair, 2014

· Review for Ecological Applications, 2014

· ASA ENVR Chair-elect, 2013

· Review panel for DFG (German Science Foundation), Biodiversity ExploratoriesProgram; Potsdam, 2013

· Book proposal review for CRC Press, 2013

· Review for Ecology, 2013

· Review for Global Change Biology, 2013

· Review for Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2013

· Book proposal review for CRC Press, 2011

· Review for Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2009

· ASA ENVR Council of Sections Representative, 2009-11

· Guest Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, special forumon Bayesian belief networks, 2006

· Review for Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 2005

· Review for Duxbury Press, MBA data analysis course prospectus 2005

· President, Oregon Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2004–2005

· Special Awards Judge, International Science and Engineering Fair, Portland OR,May 2004

· Special Awards Judge, Northwest Science Expo, Portland OR, April 2004

· Vice President, Oregon Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2003–2004

· Review for Journal of Statistics Education, August 2003

· Secretary/Treasurer, Oregon Chapter of the American Statistical Assn, 2002–2003

· Judge, Northwest Science Expo, Portland OR, March 2002

E. AWARDS

· College of Science Women in Science Award, 2012

· Oregon State Statistics Students Organization (OSSSO) Award for significant con-tribution to the educational experience of statistics students, 2010

· College of Science Horne Award for sustained excellence in teaching science, 2008

· Finalist for the College of Science Lloyd Carter Award for excellence in graduateteaching, 2005

· OSSSO Award, 2004

· OSSSO Award, 2003

· Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow, 1998–1999

· Gertrude Cox Scholarship Honorable Mention, The American Statistical Associa-tion’s Committee on Women in Statistics and the Caucus for Women in Statistics,1995

YUAN JIANGhttp://www.stat.oregonstate.edu/content/jiang-yuan

Department of Statistics Phone: (541) 737-2429Oregon State University Mobile: (608) 626-268948 Kidder Hall Fax: (541) 737-3489Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Email: [email protected]


A.1. Employment

• 09/2011–Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State Univer-sity, Corvallis, OR

• 03/2012–Present, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology Pro-gram, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

• 09/2011–08/2013, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Yale Univer-sity, New Haven, CT

• 06/2012–07/2012, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and AppliedProbability, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• 09/2008–08/2011, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Epidemiology and PublicHealth, Yale University, New Haven, CT

• 09/2007–08/2008, Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

• 09/2004–08/2008, Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

A.2. Education

• 09/2004–08/2008, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,Madison, WI

• 09/2000–06/2004, B.S., Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Tech-nology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

B. TEACHING, ADVISING AND OTHER ASSIGNMENTS

B.1. Instructional Summary

Credit Courses

• Fall 2013, ST 561, Theory of Statistics I, 25 Students

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• Spring 2013, ST 413/513, Methods of Data Analysis III, 29 Students

• Winter 2013, ST 599, Statistical Methods for Genomics Research, 31 Students


• Spring 2012, ST 413/513, Methods of Data Analysis III, 29 Students



• Winter 2013, ST 599, Statistical Methods for Genomics Research, 31 Students

– Developed and taught this new special-topic class

– 20 students from life science, 11 students from statistics

– Advanced the communication between life science and statistics

B.2. Student and Participant/Client Evaluation

Listed below are my score and the department average score for graduate courses of theevaluation question “Q2: The instructor’s contribution to the course was?”

• Fall 2013, ST 561, Theory of Statistics I, 20/25 Evaluations

– My Score: 5.5, Department Average: 5.2

• Spring 2013, ST 413/513, Methods of Data Analysis III, 23/29 Evaluations


• Winter 2013, ST 599, Statistical Methods for Genomics Research, 13/31 Evaluations




• Spring 2012, ST 413/513, Methods of Data Analysis III, 22/29 Evaluations




B.3 Peer Teaching Evaluations

Please refer to the peer teaching evaluation letters.

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B.4. Advising

Ph.D. Major Professor

• 2014+, Kai Li, Department of Statistics (Co-advised with Lan Xue)

M.S. Major Professor

• 2014, Martin Guyer, Department of Statistics

• 2014, Kai Li, Department of Statistics

• 2014, Le Wang, Department of Statistics

• 2013, Sasha Friedman, Department of Statistics

• 2013, Danlin Wang, Department of Statistics

Ph.D. Minor Professor

• 2014, Fangyuan Han, Department of Chemistry

M.S. Minor Professor

• 2012, Min Ye, Department of Wood Science and Engineering

Ph.D. Committee

• 2014+, Matthew Geniza, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

• 2014+, Trina Lapis, Department of Food Science and Technology

• 2014+, Bin Zhuo, Department of Statistics

• 2014, Gu Mi, Department of Statistics

• 2014, Seth Reddy, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering

• 2014, Dan Tanaree, Department of Microbiology

• 2014, Amanda Vondras, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

• 2014, Fereshteh Zandkarimi, Department of Chemistry

• 2013, Cheng Li, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics

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M.S. Committee

• 2013, Nima Dolatnia, Department of Statistics

• 2013, Lujing Li, Department of Statistics

• 2013, Lin Qin, Department of Statistics

• 2013, Lu Wang, Department of Statistics

• 2012, Chaozhe Liu, Department of Statistics

B.5. Other Assignments

20% of my primary responsibilities is Consulting and Collaboration with OSU’s Center forGenome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB). I have consulted for and collaborated withmore than 15 researchers at OSU, most of whom are affiliated with CGRB. My contributionsinclude providing advice on research questions and study design; data analysis and statisticaldevelopment; and manuscript and grant proposal preparation. I have established long-term collaborations with Jeff Chang [Botany and Plant Pathology (BPP)], Claudia Maier(Chemistry), Fred Stevens [Linus Pauling Institute (LPI)], and Brett Tyler (CGRB). Thesecollaborations have resulted in 3 published papers and 3 others in progress, and 3 pendinggrants and 1 in progress.

Collaboration at OSU

• Fall 2013–Present, Collaborator, Thomas Sharpton (Microbiology/Statistics)

– Projects on statistical development for metagenomics data

• Fall 2011–Present, Collaborator, Jeff Chang (BPP)

– Projects on statistical development for RNA-seq data (1 paper published, 1 paperin progress)

• Winter 2012–Present, Collaborator, Fred Stevens (LPI)

– Projects on data analysis for metabolomics data (1 paper published)

• Fall 2011–Present, Collaborator, Claudia Maier (Chemistry)

– Projects on data analysis for metabolomics data (1 paper published, 2 papers inprogress)

• Spring 2014, co-PI, Jim Alfano (Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Brett Tyler (CGRB)

– Grant proposal for NSF Plant Genome Research Program, Division of IntegrativeOrganismal Systems (pending)

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• Winter 2014, co-I, Emily Ho (LPI)

– Grant proposal for a NIH R21 Funding Opportunity (pending)

• Winter 2014, co-PI, Kimberly Halsey (Microbiology)

– Grant preliminary proposal for NSF Integrative Ecological Physiology Program,Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (NSF 13-600) (pending)

• Summer 2013, co-I, Balz Frei (LPI), Fred Stevens (LPI), Brett Tyler (CGRB)

– Grant proposal for NIH P01 Funding Opportunity, Center of Excellence for Re-search on CAM (PAR-13-220) (not funded)

• Spring 2013, co-I, Claudia Maier (Chemistry)

– Grant proposal for a NIH R21 Funding Opportunity (not funded)

• Spring 2013, co-I, Emily Ho (LPI)

– Grant proposal for a NIH R21 Funding Opportunity (not funded)

• Winter 2013, co-PI, Jim Alfano (Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Brett Tyler (CGRB)

– Grant proposal for NSF Plant Genome Research Program, Division of IntegrativeOrganismal Systems (NSF 13-522) (not funded)

• Winter 2013, co-PI, Brad Day (Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State Uni-versity), Jeff Chang (BPP)

– Grant proposal for NSF Investigator-Initiated Research Projects, Division of Molec-ular and Cellular Biosciences (NSF 13-510) (not funded)

• Winter 2013, co-PI, Jennifer Field (EMT)

– Grant proposal for Environmental Health Sciences Center 2013-2014 Pilot Projects(not funded)

• Winter 2012, Senior/Key Personnel, Balz Frei (LPI), Fred Stevens (LPI), BrettTyler (CGRB)

– Grant proposal for NIH U24 Funding Opportunity, Regional Comprehensive MetabolomicsResource Cores (RFA-RM-11-016) (not funded)

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Collaboration Elsewhere

• 06/2009–08/2013, Laura Ment (Department of Pediatrics, Yale University)

– Biostatistician in the core team of the NIH funded project “Gene Targets forIVH” (1 paper in progress)

• 10/2008–08/2011, Vineet Bhandari (Department of Pediatrics, Yale University)

– Projects to quantify both genetic and environmental effects on Late-Onset Sep-sis and Respiratory Distress Syndrome using nonlinear mixed-effects models (2papers published)

• 01/2009–05/2009, Julia Kim-Cohen (Department of Psychology, Yale University)

– Projects to match samples in the analysis of emotion recognition using propensityscore matching methods

• 09/2006–12/2006, Hongyun Han (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison)

– Projects to investigate the performance gap between black and white childrenin the analysis of Early Childhood Longitudinal Study using linear mixed-effectsmodels


C.1. Publications

Referred Publications

1. Jiang, Y., He, Y., and Zhang, H. (2015). Variable selection with prior information forgeneralized linear models via the pLASSO method. Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation, in press.

2. Jiang, Y., Li, N., and Zhang, H. (2014). Identifying genetic variants for addictionvia propensity score adjusted generalized Kendall’s tau. Journal of the AmericanStatistical Association, 109, 905–930.

3. Yang, L., Brodericka, D., Jiang, Y., Hsu, V., and Maier C. S. (2014). Conformationaldynamics of human FXR-LBD ligand interactions studied by hydrogen/deuterium ex-change mass spectrometry: Insights into the antagonism of the hypolipidemic agentZ-guggulsterone. BBA Proteins and Proteomics, 1844(9), 1684–1693.

4. Jiang, Y., Emerson, S., Wang, L., Li, L., and Di, Y. (2014). Family-based associationtest using normal approximation to gene dropping null distribution. BMC Proceedings,8(Suppl 1), S18.

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5. Wickramasekara, S. I., Zandkarimi, F., Morr, J., Kirkwood, J., Legette, L. L., Jiang,Y., Gombart, A. F., Stevens, J. F., and Maier, C. S. (2013). Electrospray quadrupoletravelling wave ion mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry for the detection ofplasma metabolome changes caused by xanthohumol in obese zucker (fa/fa) rats.Metabolites, 3(3), 701–717.

6. Kirkwood, J. S., Legette, L. L., Miranda, C. L., Jiang, Y., and Stevens, J. F. (2013).A metabolomics-driven elucidation of the anti-obesity mechanisms of xanthohumol.Journal of Biological Chemistry, 288(26), 19000–19013.

7. Jiang, Y. and Zhang, C. M. (2013). High-dimensional regression and classificationunder a class of convex loss functions. Statistics and Its Interface, 6, 285–299.

8. Liu, Z., Guo, X., Jiang, Y., and Zhang, H. (2013). NCK2 is significantly associatedwith opiates addiction in African-origin men. The Scientific World Journal, 2013. (Spe-cial issue on biomedical informatics and computational biology for high-throughputdata analysis.)

9. Kimbrel, J. A., Thomas, W. J., Jiang, Y., Creason, A. L., Thireault, C. A., Sachs,J. L., and Chang, J. H. (2013). Mutualistic co-evolution of type III effector genes inSinorhizobium fredii and Bradyrhizobium japonicum. PLOS Pathogens, 9, e1003204.

10. Zhu, W., Jiang, Y., and Zhang, H. (2012). Nonparametric covariate-adjusted associ-ation tests based on the generalized Kendall’s tau. Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation, 107, 497, 1–11.

11. Bailey-Wilson, J. E., Brennan, J. S., Bull, S. B., Culverhouse, R., Kim, Y., Jiang, Y.,Jung, J., Li, Q., Lamina, C., Liu, Y., Magi, R., Niu, Y. S., Simpson, C. L., Wang, L.,Yilmaz, Y. E., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Z. (2011). Regression and data mining methodsfor analyses of multiple rare variants in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 mini-exomedata. Genetic Epidemiology, 35, S92–S100.

12. Jiang, Y., Brennan, J. S., Calixte, R., He, Y., Nyirabahizi, E., and Zhang, H. (2011).Novel tree-based method to generate markers from rare variant data. BMC Proceed-ings, 5(Suppl 9), S102.

13. Brennan, J. S., He, Y., Calixte, R., Nyirabahizi, E., Jiang, Y., and Zhang, H. (2011).A LASSO-based approach to analyzing rare variants in genetic association studies.BMC Proceedings, 5(Suppl 9), S100.

14. Jiang, Y. and Zhang, H. (2011). Propensity score-based nonparametric test revealinggenetic variants underlying bipolar disorder. Genetic Epidemiology, 35, 125–132.

15. Bizzarro, M. J., Jiang, Y., Hussain, N., Gruen, J. R., Bhandari, V., and Zhang, H.(2011). The impact of environmental and genetic factors on neonatal late-onset sepsis.The Journal of Pediatrics, 158, 234–238.

16. Zhang, C. M., Jiang, Y., and Chai, Y. (2010). Penalized Bregman divergence forlarge dimensional regression and classification. Biometrika, 97, 551–566.

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17. Levit, O.*, Jiang, Y.*, Bizzarro, M. J., Hussain, N., Buhimschi, C. S., Gruen, J. R.,Zhang, H., and Bhandari, V. (2009). The genetic susceptibility to respiratory distresssyndrome. Pediatric Research, 66, 693–697. * Joint first authors.

18. Zhang, C. M., Jiang, Y., and Shang, Z. (2009). New aspects of Bregman divergencein regression and classification with parametric and nonparametric estimation. TheCanadian Journal of Statistics, 37, 119–139.

19. Zhang, C. M., Jiang, Y., and Yu, T. (2007). A comparative study of one-level andtwo-level semiparametric estimation of hemodynamic response function for fMRI data.Statistics in Medicine, 26, 3845–3861. (Special issue on statistical analysis of neuronaldata.)

20. Zhang, C. M., Fu, H., Jiang, Y., and Yu, T. (2007). High-dimensional pseudo logisticregression and classification with applications to gene expression data. ComputationalStatistics & Data Analysis, 52, 452–470. (Special issue on statistical learning methodsincluding dimensionality reduction.)

Non-Refereed Publications

1. Jiang, Y., Zhang, H. and Zhu, W. (2012). Statistical analysis in genetic associationstudies of mental illnesses. AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 51, 957–970.

In Preparation

1. Yu, T., Di, Y., Chang, J. and Jiang, Y. (2014). Identification of differentially ex-pressed genes by adjusting the non-uniformity in RNA-Seq data. In preparation forBiostatistics.

2. Jiang, Y. and Zhang, H. (2014). Adjusting for covariates in genetic association studiesusing propensity scores. In preparation for Biometrics.

3. Xu, Y., Jiang, Y., Song, C. and Zhang, H. (2014). Genetic association tests based onnonparametric stratification of propensity scores. In preparation for Genetic Epidemi-ology.

C.2. Conferences

1. 07/2014, Invited Talk, “Prior LASSO: Incorporating prior information into variableselection”, Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technologyof China, Hefei, Anhui, China

2. 06/2014, Invited Talk, “Prior LASSO: Incorporating prior information into variableselection”, The 3rd IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan

3. 06/2014, Invited Talk, “Prior LASSO: Incorporating prior information into variableselection”, 2014 ICSA and KISS Joint Applied Statistics Symposium, Portland, OR

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4. 09/2013, Travel Award, Program on Low-dimensional Structure in High-dimensionalSystems (LDHD): Opening Workshop, Statistical and Applied Mathematical SciencesInstitute (SAMSI), Research Triangle Park, NC

5. 06/2013, Invited Talk, “Identification of differentially expressed genes by adjustingthe non-uniformity in RNA-Seq data”, 2013 CGRB Spring Conference, Oregon StateUniversity, Corvallis, OR

6. 06/2013, Invited Session Organizer and Chair, “Recent Statistical Advances inGenetic Studies”, 2013 WNAR/IMS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

7. 10/2012, Contributed Poster, “Semiparametric propensity score adjusted tests formultiple traits”, 21st Annual International Genetic Epidemiology Society Conference,Stevenson, WA

8. 10/2012, Contributed Talk, “Family-based association test using normal approxi-mation to gene dropping null distribution”, Genetic Analysis Workshop 18, Stevenson,WA

9. 08/2012, Invited Talk, “Prior LASSO: Incorporating prior information into variableselection”, International Conference on Quantitative Finance and Risk Management,Changchun, Jilin, China

10. 07/2012, Contributed Talk, “Prior LASSO: Incorporating prior information intovariable selection”, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, CA

11. 07/2012, Travel Award, “Prior LASSO: Incorporating prior information into variableselection”, 14th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability, San Diego,CA

12. 07/2012, Invited Talk, “Prior LASSO: Incorporating prior information into variableselection”, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University ofSingapore, Singapore

13. 10/2011, Invited Talk, “Prior LASSO: Incorporating prior information into variableselection”, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

14. 09/2011, Contributed Poster, “Genetic effect and association test for covarianceheterogeneity in multiple trait comorbidity”, 12th International Meeting on HumanGenome Variation and Complex Genome Analysis, Berkeley, CA

15. 10/2010, Contributed Talk, “A novel tree-based method to generate markers fromrare variant data”, Genetic Analysis Workshop 17, Boston, MA

16. 06/2010, Invited Talk, “The adaptive LASSO for high-dimensional model under aclass of convex loss functions”, 2010 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Indianapolis,IN

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17. 07/2010, Travel Award, Informatics for Data and Resource Discovery in AddictionResearch, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Rockville, MD

18. 08/2007, Attendee, Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, UT

19. 08/2006, Attendee, Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA

C.3. Grant

Active

• 2013–2018, “New developments in statistical regularization”, Collaboration Grants forMathematicians ($35,000), Simons Foundation. Role: PI.

Pending

• 2014–2017, “Methods and theory for data integration and analysis”, Statistics Pro-gram, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences, PD 08-1269. Role: PI.

• 2014–2017, “Diet and arsenic interactions in the development of diabetes”, NIH, R21,PI: Emily Ho. Role: co-PI.

• 2014–2019, “CAM center for mechanistic evaluation of vitamin D and xanthohumol”,NIH, P01, PAR-13-220, PD: Fred Steven and Balz Frei. Role: co-I.

Completed

• 2013, Faculty Internationalization Grant ($3,125), Oregon State University. Role: PI.

D. SERVICE

D.1. University Service

• 09/2013–Present, Graduate Committee, Department of Statistics

• 09/2013–Present, Curriculum Committee, Department of Statistics

• 09/2011–Present, Computer Committee, Department of Statistics

• 09/2013–Present, Steering Committee, 2014 CGRB Spring Conference

• 08/2012–06/2013, Steering Committee, 2013 CGRB Spring Conference

• 03/2012–06/2013, Biological Information and Genomics (BIG) Cluster Hire Commit-tee, CGRB and Department of Mathematics

– Recruitement for Associate/Full Professor of Applied Discrete Mathematics inSystems Biology

• 10/2012–03/2013, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Statistics

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D.2. Service to the Profession

• 01/2009–Present, Referee for journals including Australian & New Zealand Journalof Statistics, Biometrics, BMC Proceedings, Electronic Journal of Statistics, HumanHeredity, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, In-ternational Journal of Obesity, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Jour-nal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Journal of Iranian Statistical Society, Journal ofStatistical Computation and Simulation, Journal of Statistical Planning and Infer-ence, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Statistics and Its Interface, Statistics andProbability Letters.

E. AWARDS

E.1. National and International Awards

• 09/2013, Travel Award, Program on Low-dimensional Structure in High-dimensionalSystems (LDHD): Opening Workshop, Statistical and Applied Mathematical SciencesInstitute (SAMSI), Research Triangle Park, NC

• 07/2012, Travel Award, 14th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability,San Diego, CA

• 07/2010, Travel Award, Informatics for Data and Resource Discovery in AddictionResearch, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Rockville, MD

E.2. State and Regional Awards

• 06/2004, Outstanding Graduate Scholarship of Anhui Province, China

E.3. University and Community Awards

• 09/2007–05/2008, Excellent Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, Universityof Wisconsin-Madison, Madison

• 12/2003, Shing-Tung Yau Fellowship, University of Science and Technology of China

• 09/2000–06/2004, Outstanding Student Scholarship, University of Science and Tech-nology of China

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Virginia M. Lesser Vita

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION Education Lebanon Valley College Biology BS 1980 North Carolina State University Statistics MS 1987 University of North Carolina Biostatistics DrPH 1992 Employment North Carolina State University Research Technician 1981-83 North Carolina State University Graduate Research Assistant 1983-87 University of North Carolina Graduate Research Assistant 1987-92 Oregon State University Postdoctoral Associate 1992-93 Oregon State University Director, Survey Research Center

and Research Assistant Professor 1993-96 Oregon State University Director, Survey Research Center

and Tenure-Track Assistant Professor 1996-2002 Oregon State University Director, Survey Research Center

and Associate Professor 2002-2009 University of Southampton, UK- Visiting academic 1/2003- 8/2003 Oregon State University Director, Survey Research Center

and Professor 2009- Oregon State University Department Chair and Director 2011- Survey Research Center PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Committees and Working Groups American Statistical Association (ASA) Oregon Chapter of the ASA, Chapter Representative, 1997-2000. Oregon Chapter of the ASA, Vice-President, 2000-2001. Oregon Chapter of the ASA, President, 2001-2002. Recruiting Judge Coordinator for International Science and Engineering Fair, Oregon Chapter of the ASA, 2004. Member of the Edward C. Bryant Scholarship Committee, American Statistical Association,

2001-2006. Member of the Survey Review Committee, American Statistical Association,

2003-2005. Treasurer, Survey Methods Research Section of the American Statistical Association,

2005-2007. Chair, Travel Awards Committee, Survey Research Methods Section of the American

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Statistical Association, 2005-2006. Member of the Membership Survey Committee, American Statistical Association,

2006-2008. Chair of the Survey Review Committee, American Statistical Association,

2006-2008. Member of the Committee on Committees, American Statistical Association,

2009. Member of the Fiscal Oversight Committee, American Statistical Association,

2010-. Member, Expert Panel for Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, ad-hoc Committee of the

American Statistical Association, 2013. Member of JABES Editorial Management Committee, American Statistical Association,

2013-2015. International Statistical Institute (ISI) Member of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) Program Committee, 2005- 2007. Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2010.

National Academy of Sciences Panel Member, Committee on the Review of the National Institute of Safety and Health/Bureau

of Labor Statistics Respirator Use Survey Program, 2005-2006. Reviewer for NRC report: Understanding American Agriculture: Challenges for the Agricultural

Resource Management Survey, 2007. Panel Member, Committee on the Review of the Occupational Information Network, O*NET,

2008-2010. Panel Member, Committee on the Study of the Feasibility of Estimating the Flow of Unauthorized Crossing at the U.S.-Mexican Border, 2011-2012. Reviewer for NRC report: Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault, 2013. Panel Member, Committee on Evaluation of the National Children’s Study, 2013-. Panel Member, Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation, 2013-. United States Department of Agriculture Panel Member and Subpanel Chair, Committee on the Review of the National Agriculture Statistics Service Census of Agriculture, 2006-2007. National Agricultural Experiment Station Committees Member of the Western Regional Research Project, W-183, 1998-2002. (A committee of survey methodologists conducting replicated experiments across states to find ways for improving both the quantity and quality of response to surveys). Presentations given at yearly meetings.

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Member of the Western Coordinating Committee, W1001, 2003-present; Chair Beginning 9/2007. (A committee of survey methodologists collaborating to arrive at a better understanding of a means for reducing survey error in study designs). Presentations given at yearly meetings Centers for Disease Control Expert member on working group organized by the Centers for Disease Control, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and the Division of Acute Care, Rehabilitation Research, and Disability Prevention to discuss methods to conduct mild traumatic brain injury surveillance in the United States (2001-2004). Oregon Health Sciences University Consulting statistician for an Oregon Health Sciences University Project investigating the impacts of osteoporosis in men, 2002-2005. Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research Consulting statistician and survey methodologist for Kaiser Permanente Research Group in an international study to access prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2003-2008. Oregon Institute on Disability and Development External Advisory Panel member for a Program Evaluation Project for Easter Seals Project Action, 2006-2007. Bureau of Labor Statistics Member of Technical Advisory Committee, 2011- Invited Participation in Research Reviews Panel Member, Environmental Protection Agency's Review of the Critical Assessment Document on Ozone and Its Effects. 1994. Reviewer, Environmental Protection Agency's and National Park Service's Program on Intensive Site Studies (DISPRO). 1997. Participant, Environmental Protection Agency's Research Needs Workshop for Ozone Effects on Ecological Systems. 1997. Panel Member, Environmental Protection Agency's Peer Review Panel for Environmental Statistics Research. 2004. Panel Member, National Institute of Health’s Peer Review Panel for Population Health Research. 2006. Panel Member, National Institute of Health’s Peer Review Panel for Population Health Research. 2007.

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University Service Panelist in the Symposium on Graduate Study in Science for Undergraduate Women,

October, 1996. Advisory committee, Symposium on Graduate Study in Science for Undergraduate Women,

November, 1997. Environmental Science Graduate Program Committee,

Quantitative Analysis Subgroup, 1996-present. Recruiting Committee Subgroup, 1997-1999.

University Retention Committee Task Force, 1997. Participant in the College of Agricultural Sciences Tour, Summer 1997 and 1999. University VoteNet Committee, 1999. Search Committee Member, Assistant Director for Marketing, OSU Distance and Continuing

Education, 2000. Invited participant in the Oregon State University Extension Service Roads Scholar Tour,

Summer, 2000. Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, OSU College of Health and

Human Performance, 2005. Member of Steering Committee, Oregon State University Extension Service Nutrition Education

Program, 2007-2009. Faculty Senate, 2008-2010; 2013. Member of Advisory Group for College of Science Business Service Center, 2009. Member of College of Science Consultative Committee, 2009-2010. Member, College of Science Dean Search, 2012-2013. Member, College of Science Strategic Planning Committee, 2014. Departmental Department Graduate Committee, 1994-1999. Department Environmental Statistics Committee, 1994 - present. Department Search Committee for Department Chair, 1997-98. Department Search Committee for Faculty Research Assistant Position for the Survey Research

Center (Chair), 1998-1999. Department Search Committee for Instructor Position, 1999. Department Committee to Develop Teaching Assistant Evaluations, 1999. Department Search Committee for Assistant Professor, 2004-2005. Department Curriculum Committee, 2007- Department Search Committee for Department Chair, 2008. Department Search Committee for Assistant Professor, Chair, 2010. Peer Review Publications reviewed for the Environmental Protection Agency; Journal of Environmental Quality; Wildlife Society Bulletin; Ecological Applications; International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Agriculture, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Atmospheric Environment, International Journal of

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Quality Health Care, Statistics in Medicine, Journal of Public Opinion Quarterly. TEACHING AND ADVISING Oregon State University Statistical Methods (ST511): 1997 Statistical Methods (ST512): 1995-1999, 2004, 2008. Sampling Methods (ST531): 1994-1996, 1998-2010. Statistical Methods (ST552): 1998-1999, 2001-2002, 2006, 2009-2011 Sampling Theory (ST632): 1996. Graduate Students (1994-present) PhD Major Advisor: 7 M.S. Major Advisor: 35 Minor Professor (i.e., for students taking a minor in Statistics): 26 PhD Committee Member: 22 MS Committee Member: 19 Participation in Non-Credit Courses and U.S. Workshops 2001 Sample Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys: A Short Course. Two day course co-

taught with W. D Kalsbeek, Director – Survey Research Unit, University of North Carolina, to researchers from Oregon State Agencies. Topics and materials prepared by both instructors. Course sponsored by the Oregon Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Oregon Health Sciences University, Oregon Department of Human Services, Oregon Health Division and The Logical Connexion. Taught at Oregon Health Sciences University, February 22-23, 2001.

2002 Survey Training Workshop. Participated in three day course on survey methodology and

sampling. Taught on Day 3 with W.D. Kalsbeek to survey researchers in Washington State. Course was videotaped and is available for future researchers requiring survey and sampling instruction. Course was coordinated by the Washington State Department of Health, August 20-22, 2002.

2005 Invited lecture in a workshop of the Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.

Workshop title: Experimental and Survey Design in Fisheries: A Statistics Workshop. Presented at the Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society 41st Annual Meeting, February 15, 2005.

2007 Invited lecture to the Oregon State University Extension Service - Family and

Community Development Statewide In-Service Symposium. Presented seminar titled: The Lifespan of a Survey: An Introduction to Survey Design and Analysis, May, 2007.

PUBLICATIONS

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Refereed Research Publications Unsworth, M.H., V.M. Lesser, and A.S. Heagle. 1984. Radiation interception and the growth of soybeans exposed to ozone in open-top field chambers. Journal of Applied Ecology, 21:1059-1079. Heagle, A.S., W.W. Heck, V.M. Lesser, F.L. Mowry, and J.O. Rawlings. 1985. Injury and yield response of cotton to chronic doses of ozone and sulfur dioxide in open-top chambers. Journal of Environmental Quality, 15:375-382. Heagle, A.S., V.M. Lesser, J.O. Rawlings, W.W. Heck, and R.B. Philbeck. 1986. Response of soybeans to chronic doses of ozone applied by adding constant or proportional amounts of ozone to ambient air. Phytopathology, 76:51-56. Heagle, A.S., W.W. Heck, V.M. Lesser, and J.O. Rawlings. 1986. Effects of daily ozone exposure duration and concentration fluctuation in yield of tobacco. Phytopathology, 77:857-862. Heagle, A.S. R.B. Flagler, R.P. Patterson, V.M. Lesser, S.R. Shafer, and W.W. Heck. 1987. Effect of soil moisture deficit on injury and yield response of soybean to chronic doses of ozone. Crop Science 27:1016-1024. Spruill, S.E., V.M. Lesser, M.C. Sommerville, and J.O. Rawlings. 1988. Methods used for managing and analyzing data stored in the NCLAN Data Library. Environmental Pollution, 53: 462-465. Rawlings, J.O., V.M. Lesser, A.S. Heagle, and W.W. Heck. 1988. Alternative ozone dose metrics to characterize ozone impact on crop yield loss. Journal of Environmental Quality, 17:285-291. Rawlings, J.O., V.M. Lesser, and K.A. Dassel. 1988. Statistical approaches to assessing crop losses. In: Assessment of Crop Loss from Air Pollutants. Eds. W.W. Heck, D.L. Tingey, and O.C. Taylor. Elsevier Publishing Company, London, 389-416. Lesser, V.M., J.O. Rawlings, S.E. Spruill, M.C. Sommerville. 1990. Ozone effects on agricultural crops: statistical methodologies and estimated dose-response relationships. Crop Science, 30:148-155. Heggestad, H.E. and V.M. Lesser. 1990. Effects of chronic doses of sulfur dioxide, ozone, and drought on yields and growth of soybeans under field conditions. Journal of Environmental Quality, 19:488-495. Lesser, V.M. and P. Geissler. 1992. Statistical Methods for Crop Dose-Response Studies in Europe and the USA. In: Effects of Air Pollution on Agricultural Crops in Europe. Eds. H.J. Jager, M.H. Unsworth, L. de Temmerman, and P. Mathy, Report No. 46, Environmental

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Research Programme, Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium, 195-204. Ramsey, F.L. and V.M. Lesser. 1995. Conditional and Unconditional Estimators of Population Size. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2:181-190. Lesser, V.M. and W.D. Kalsbeek. 1997. A Comparison of Periodic Survey Designs Employing Multi-Stage Sampling. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 4:117-130. Ormrod, D., V.M. Lesser, D. Olszyk, and D. Tingey. 1998. Douglas-fir needle pigment response to climate change and correlations with seedling growth. Plant Physiology, 114:90. Lesser, V.M. and W.D. Kalsbeek. 1999. Nonsampling Error Considerations in Environmental Surveys. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 4(4): 473-488. Ormrod, D., V.M. Lesser, D. Olszyk, and D. Tingey. 1999. Elevated temperature and carbon dioxide affect chlorophylls and carotenoids in Douglas-fir needles. International Journal of Plant Science, 160(3): 529-534. Lesser, V.M. 2001. Applying Survey Research Methods to Account for Denied Access To Research Sites on Private Property. Wetlands, 21(4) 639-647. Mason, R., V. M. Lesser, and M. Trauggot. 2002. Effect of Item Nonresponse on Nonresponse Error and Inference in Survey Nonresponse, Robert M. Groves, Don A. Dillman, John L. Eltinge, and Roderick J.A. Little, Editors. Wiley. Lesser, V.M. 2002. Multi-phase Sampling in Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, Abdel El-Shaarawi and Walter Piegorsch, Editors. Wiley. Munoz-Hernandez, B. and V.M. Lesser. 2005. Adjustment procedures to account for non-ignorable missing data in environmental surveys. Environmetrics, 17(6): 653-662. BOLD Collaborative Research Group (Lesser is one of 125 contributors). 2007. International Variation in the Prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (The BOLD Study): a population prevalence study. Lancet, 370: 741-750. Dillman, D.A., V.M. Lesser, J. Carlson, R. Mason, R. Robertson, and F. Willits. 2007. Personalization Does It Improve Response in Mail Surveys? Rural Sociology, 72: 632-646. Munoz-Hernandez, B., V.M. Lesser, and F. Ramsey. 2008. Design-based empirical orthogonal function model for environmental monitoring data analysis. Environmetrics, 19: 805-817. Munoz-Hernandez, B., V.M. Lesser, J. Dorney, and R.Savage. 2009. Survey methodology for assessing the map accuracy of geographically isolated wetlands. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 150: 53-64.

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Munoz-Hernandez, B. V.M. Lesser, and Ruben Smith. 2011. Applying Multiple Imputation with Geostatistic Models to Account for Item Nonresponse in Environmental Data. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods 9(2). Lesser, V.M., D.K. Yang, and L. Newton. 2011. Assessing Opinion’s Based on a Mail and a Mixed-Mode Survey. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 16(3). Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D.K. Yang. 2012. Comparing Item Nonresponse across Different Delivery Modes in General Population Surveys. Survey Practice, April, 2012. Dorney,J.R., D.Tufford, V.Baker, F. Obusek, B.Munoz, R.Truesdalee, K.Matthews, V.M. Lesser. 2012. Isolated wetlands in the Southeastern United States: A comparison of state regulatory programs and implications of recent research. National Wetlands Newsletter, Vol. 34, No. 3.

Lin, H.M., H.Y. Kim, J.M. Williamson, and V.M. Lesser. 2012. Estimating Agreement Coefficients from Sample Survey Data. Survey Methodology, 38(1): 63-72.

Hildreth, L.A., U. Genschel, F.O. Lorenz, and V.M. Lesser. 2013. A permutation test for correlated errors in adjacent questionnaire items. Structural Equation Modeling, 20:226-240.

Harding, A.K, D. Stone, A. Cardenas, and V.M. Lesser. 2014. Rick behaviors and self-reorted illnesses among Pacific Northwest surfers. Accepted in the Journal of Water and Health.

Obusek, F., B. Munoz, R. Truesdale, J.R. Dorney, D.Tufford, V.Baker, K.Matthews, V.M. Lesser and R. Sumner. Assessing geographically isolated wetlands in a portion of North and South Carolina – Level 1 GIS analysis. Submitted to Wetland Ecology and Management.

Conference Proceedings Lesser, V.M. and W.D. Kalsbeek. 1991. A Comparison of Periodic Survey Designs Employing Multi-Stage Sampling. Proceedings of the Section of Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, 186-192. Olsen, A.R. and V.M. Lesser. 1993. Sampling Designs Over Time and Space for National Natural Resource Monitoring Programs. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, Book 2, 257-258. Munoz-Hernandez, B., V. M. Lesser, and F. Ramsey. 1998. Design-based empirical orthogonal function model for environmental monitoring data analysis. Proceedings of the Environmental Statistics Section, American Statistical Association Meetings, 95-101. Munoz-Hernandez, B., V. M. Lesser, and F. Ramsey. 1999. Auxiliary Information in the Design-Based EOF Models. Proceedings of the Environmental Statistics Section, American

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Statistical Association Meetings, 130-135. Lesser, V.M., D. Dillman, J. Carlson, T. Brown, F. Lorenz, R. Mason and F. Willits. 2001. Influence of token incentives on response to mail surveys: correspondence between a general theory and results from new research. Proceedings of the Section of Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, Contributed Topic 5, Paper 3, Pages 1-6. Lorenz, F.O., J. Saltiel, R. Robertson, and V.M. Lesser. Effects of the Order in which General vs. Specific Questions are Asked in Surveys. Proceedings of the Section of Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, Contributed Topic 5, Paper 1, Pages 1-4. Dillman, D.A., V.M. Lesser, R.G. Mason, J. Carlson, F. Willits, R. Robertson, and B. Burke. Personalization of Mail Surveys on General Public and Other Populations: Results of Nine Experiments. Proceedings of the Section of Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, Contributed Topic 5, Paper 2, Pages 1-6. Amer, S., V. Lesser, and R. Burton. 2003. Neural Network Imputation, A New Fashion or A Good Tool: Linear Neural Network Imputation. Proceedings of the Survey Research Section, American Statistical Association Meetings, Session 414. Munoz, B. and V.M. Lesser, 2005. A Weighting Class Adjustment Estimator for the Total under a Stratified Sampling Design in a Continuous Domain. Proceedings of the 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Sydney, 2 pp. Harrod, L.A. V.M. Lesser, and A. Qu. 2006. Use of Estimating Equations and Quadratic Inference Functions in Complex Surveys, Proceedings of the Section of Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association , Session 145. Harrod, L.A., and V.M. Lesser. 2006. The Use of Propensity Scores to Adjust for Nonignorable Nonresponse Bias. Proceedings of the Survey Research Section, American Statistical Association Meetings, Session 414, Paper 3, Pages 1-4. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. 2007. Comparison of Delivery Methods in a Survey Distributed by Internet, Mail, and Telephone. Proceedings of the International Statistics Institute Meetings, Lisbon, Portugal. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2011. Evaluating Methodologies to Increase Internet Responses in Mixed-Mode Surveys. Proceedings of the International Statistics Institute Meetings, Dublin, Ireland. Book Review Lesser, V.M. 1995. Environmental Statistics and Data Analysis by Wayne R. Ott. The American Statistician: 49:398-399.

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Congressional Reports (peer reviewed) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Report to Congress on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Steps to Prevent a Serious Public Health Problem. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2003. (One of 19 authors on report). Measuring Respirator Use in the Workplace, National Research Council of the National Academies. 2007, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. (One of 12 authors on report). A Database for a Changing Economy: Review of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), 2010, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. (One of 13 authors on report). Estimating Illegal Entries at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 2012, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. (One of 13 authors on report). Technical Reports (peer reviewed) Cusimano, R.F., J.P. Baker, W.J. Warren-Hicks, V.M. Lesser, W.W. Taylor, M.C. Fabrizio, D.B. Hayes, and B.P. Baldigo. 1988. Fish communities in lakes in subregion 2B (Upper Peninsula of Michigan) in relation to lake acidity. E601-121-12/15/88-01F. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Sommerville, M.C., S.E. Spruill, J.O. Rawlings, and V.M. Lesser. 1989. Impact of ozone and sulfur dioxide on the yield of agricultural crops. North Carolina Agricultural Res. Service Tech. Bull. 292. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC. 90 pp. Lesser, V.M. and W.S. Overton. 1993. EMAP Status Estimation Procedures and Algorithms. EPA/620/R-94/008. 100 pp. The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE). (2007). Improving Information About America’s Farms & Ranches: A Review of the Census of Agriculture. Washington, DC. (One of 20 authors on report). Technical Reports (not peer reviewed) . Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1993. Assessment of Public Opinion on Recreational Use in Oregon. Conducted for Oregon State Parks and Recreation. 300 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1994. Analysis of Statewide Gasoline Consumption by

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Snowmobiles. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 15 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1994. Analysis of Statewide Gasoline Consumption by All Terrain Vehicles. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 15 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1994. Evaluation of Compliance Officers for Oregon OSHA. Conducted for Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Association. 100 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1994. Evaluation of Student Health Insurance. Conducted for Oregon State University Office of Academic Affairs. 400 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1994. Assessment of Needs of Business Students Enrolled in Community Colleges Across Oregon. Conducted for Oregon State University Department of Management, Marketing and International Business. 60 pp. Ramsey, F.L. and V.M. Lesser. 1995. General Survey and Monitory Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl in Washington, Oregon and Northern California: Scope and Recommendations. Report for the United States Forest Service. Lesser, V.M. 1995. Assessment of Nonresponse Bias in the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Annual Punch Card Survey. Conducted for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. 6pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B.M.Hernandez. 1995. Assessment of Recreational Use in Southeast Oregon. Conducted for Oregon State Parks and Recreation. 210 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1995. Evaluation of Family-Based Childcare in Oregon. Conducted for Oregon Employment Department - Childcare Division. 60 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1995. Assessment of Graduate Critical Thinking Skills by Oregon Businesses. Conducted for the Oregon State System of Higher Education. 55 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1995. Evaluation of Recent Graduate Alumni on the Curriculum and Activities of Oregon State University. Conducted for Oregon State University Undergraduate Admissions. 120 pp. Lesser, V.M. 1995. Assessment of Current Angling Regulations. Conducted for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. 5 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1996. Evaluation of the Dental Program Under the Oregon Health Plan. Conducted for the Oregon Medical Assistance Program. 500 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1996. Evaluation of Recent Graduate Alumni on the Curriculum and Activities of Oregon State University. Conducted for Oregon State University Information Services and the Oregon State System of Higher Education. 700 pp.

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Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1996. Evaluation of Public Opinion on Changes to ODFW Angling Regulations. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. 50 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1996. Assessment of Boat Usage in the 1995 Statewide Boating Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Marine Board. 300 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1996. Development of Procedures to Evaluate Oregon Department of Transportation Maintenance Crews. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 100 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1996. Determination of Amount and Type of Computer Use of OSU Students and Faculty. Conducted for Oregon State University Information Services. 1200 pp. Lesser, V.M. 1997. Site access considerations for obtaining landowner consent for the 1995/1996 EMAP wetlands demonstration study in North Dakota. OSU Technical Report 167, November 1997. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1997. Summary Report for the Oregon State University Distance Education Survey. Conducted for the OSU Distance Education. 98 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1997. Summary Report for the Oregon Department of Revenue Taxpayer Survey of 1995 Filers. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Revenue. 290 pp. Lesser, V.M., and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1997. Summary Report for the 1997 Health and Human Performance Student Survey. Conducted for the College of Health and Human Performance. 65 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1997. Evaluation of Summer and Winter Oregon Department of Transportation Maintenance Crews. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 600 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1997. 1997 Corvallis 2020 Vision Update Survey. Conducted for the Corvallis Vision Update Committee. 213 pp. Lesser, V.M, P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1998. Analysis of Statewide Fuel Use Consumption by Oregon Registered Snowmobiles. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 35 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and T. Maan. 1998. Evaluation of the 1998 Oregon State Parks and Recreation Survey. Conducted for Oregon State Parks and Recreation. 3000 pp.

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Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1998. Evaluation of Oregon Department of Transportation Summer Maintenance Crews. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 50 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1998. Oregon State University Recent Graduate Survey of 1997 Alumni. Conducted for OSU Academic Affairs. 1000 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1998. Evaluation of International Programs Within the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Conducted for OSU International Programs. 500 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1998. Evaluation of Changes in Obtaining an Oregon Department of Transportation Commercial Driving License. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Transportation. 100 pp. Lesser, V.M. and P.K. Bodenroeder. 1998. Evaluation of Businesses in the Downtown Corvallis Community. Conducted for the Downtown Corvallis Association. 50 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1998. Summary Report for the 1998 Corvallis Transportation Survey. Conducted for the Corvallis Area Chamber of Commerce. 420 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1998. Summary Report for the 1998 Oregon Mental Health Services Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Human Services. 540 pp. Lesser, V.M., and L. Newton. 1999. Summary Report for the Oregon Department of Revenue Taxpayer Survey of 1997 Filers. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Revenue. 300 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1999. Assessment of Boat Usage in the 1998 Statewide Boating Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Marine Board. 1000 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1999. Estimates of Gasoline Consumption for Commercial and Livery Boats in Oregon. Conducted for the Oregon Marine Board. 45 pp. Lesser, V.M. 1999. Evaluation of the Incorporation of Salmon Literature Inserted in Statewide Newspapers. Conducted for OSU Extension Service. 60 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1999. The Importance of the Technology Use Charges to OSU Students. Conducted for OSU Valley Library. 100 pp. Lesser, V.M., P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1999. Evaluation of Oregon State Residents Opinion on Agricultural Research Issues. Conducted for OSU Extension Services. 1200 pp.

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Lesser, V.M, P.K. Bodenroeder, and B. Munoz-Hernandez. 1999. Analysis of Statewide Fuel Use Consumption by Oregon All Terrain Vehicles. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 55 pp Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2000. Evaluation of Oregon Department of Transportation Winter Maintenance Crews. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 1000 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2000. Evaluation of the Oregon Reference Library Information Network for Knowledge. 300 pp. Conducted for the Oregon State Library. Hodges, H. and Lesser, V.M. 2000. Load Research Sample Update for Chugach Electric Association, Inc. 55 pp. Lesser, V.M. 2000. Review of Survey Methodology Used in the Arbitron Radio Custom Surveys. 6 pages. Lesser, V.M. and S. Amer. 2000. Assessment of Housing and Dining at Oregon State University. 1000 pp. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. 2000. Review of the Questionnaire Design and Statistical Design of Oregon Coast Surveys Conducted Since 1985. 26 pp. Lesser, V.M., and L. Newton. 2000. Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship, and Creativity (URISC) Program Survey. 25 pp. Conducted for the Oregon State University Research Office. Lesser, V.M., and L. Newton. 2000. Evaluation of Oregon State University Graduate Services. Conducted for the Oregon State University Graduate School. 900 pp. Lesser, V.M., and L. Newton. 2000. Assessment of Services provided by the National Pesticide Communication Network. Conducted for the National Pesticide Communication Network. 150 pp. Lesser, V.M., and L. Newton. 2000. Evaluation of the Incorporation of Poverty in Oregon Literature Inserted in Statewide Newspapers. Conducted for OSU Extension Service. 30 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2001. Evaluation of Oregon Department of Transportation Summer Maintenance Crews. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 1200 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2001. Evaluation of the Oregon Medical Transportation Program. Conducted for Oregon Department of Health and Human Services. 800 pp.

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Lesser, V.M. 2001. Incorporation of a Post-Stratification Adjustment for the Department of Motor Vehicles Customer Satisfaction Survey. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 60 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2001. Determination of Engine Type and Proposed Emission Reduction Programs. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Oregon State Marine Board. 100 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2001. Summary of Physical Activity in the Disabled Population. Conducted for the College of Health and Human Performance. 200 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2001. Evaluation of the Use of the Internet to Assess Master Gardener Programs. Conducted for Oregon State University Extension Service. 35 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2001. Determination of Interest in a Statistical Consulting Service at Oregon State University. Conducted for Oregon State University Research Office and Department of Statistics. 50 pp. Lesser, V.M., and L. Newton. 2001. Evaluation of Health Programs and Insurance in Yamhill County. Conducted for Yamhill County Extension. 65 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2002. Evaluation of Oregon Department of Transportation Summer Maintenance Crews. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 1300 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2002. Procedures and Results for the 2001 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Non-Vehicle Small Engine Fuel Use Survey – Mail Survey Results. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 72 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2002. Report for the 2002 Oregon Office of Energy Tax Credit Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Office of Energy. 86 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2002. Procedures and Results for the 2002 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Non-Vehicle Small Engine Fuel Use Survey. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 54 pp. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2003. Analysis of Statewide Fuel Use Consumption by Oregon Registered Snowmobiles. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 70 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2003. Estimates of Gasoline Consumption for Recreational, Commercial and Livery Boats in Oregon. Conducted for the Oregon Marine Board. 44 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2003. Summary Report for the 2001/2002 National Agriculture in the Classroom Survey. Conducted for the US Department of Agriculture. 154 pp.

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Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2003. Analysis of Statewide Fuel Use Consumption by Oregon All Terrain Vehicle Users. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation and Oregon State Parks and Recreation. 450 pp. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and S. Amer. 2003. Preliminary Report on the Transportation Patterns of Hazardous Materials in Oregon. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 20 pp. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and Y. Jin. 2004. Procedures and Results of Data Collected for the 2003 Oregon Deer and Elk Hunter Survey: An Assessment of Hunter’s Opinions and Experiences. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. 1500 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and Y. Jin. 2004. Evaluation of Oregon Department of Transportation Maintenance Crews. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 900 pp. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. 2005. Evaluation of Oregon’s Agricultural Progress Magazine. Conducted for OSU Extension Service. 66 pp. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and Y. Jin. 2005. Final Report on the Transportation Patterns of Hazardous Materials in Oregon. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 1800 pp. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and Y. Jin. 2005. Grant Customer Satisfaction Survey Procedures and Results. Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department. 110 pp. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. 2005. Results of Survey on Airport Features for Persons With Disabilities. Conducted for the National Center for Accessible Transportation. 175 pp. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, Y. Jin and B. Balgooyen. 2005. Procedures and Results of U.S. Coast Guard Recreational Survey. Conducted for the U.S. Coast Guard and Oregon State Marine Board. 150 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and Y. Jin. 2005. Assessment of Boat Usage in the 2004 Statewide Boating Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Marine Board. 1300 pp. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2005. Evaluation of Members of the Linus Pauling Institute. Conducted for the Linus Pauling Institute. 350 pp. Lesser, V.M. 2005. The Search Committee Workshop on Enhancing Diversity and Inclusiveness Survey. Conducted for the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences and the Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity Department. 61 pp. Lesser, V.M. 2005. 2005 Special Newspaper Survey. Conducted for the Jackson County Extension Office. 29 pp.

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Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2005. Strengthening Oregon State University’s (OSU’s) Federal Presence – A Survey of OSU Faculty. Conducted for the OSU Research Office. 116 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2006. Estimates of Gasoline Consumption for Recreational, Commercial and Livery Boats in Oregon. Conducted for the Oregon Marine Board. 63 pp. Harrod, Leigh Ann and V.M. Lesser. Ignorable Nonresponse Adjustment Procedures and Algorithms. Oregon State University Technical Report 174. May 2006. 43 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2006. Evaluation of Oregon Department of Transportation Maintenance Crews. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 653 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2006. Satisfaction Survey for 27 Parks in the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department. Conducted for Oregon State Parks and Recreation. 1000 pp. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. 2007. Climate Assessment Survey for the College of Agricultural Sciences. 218 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2007. Procedures for Data Collected in the 2007 Oregon Department of Transportation Needs and Issues Survey. 604 pp. Newton, L, V.M. Lesser, and D. Yang. 2007. Northwest Senior and Disability Services Needs Assessment Surveys for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities. 82 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2007. Evaluation of Oregon State University Graduate Exit Survey. Conducted for the Oregon State University Graduate School. 350 pp. Newton, L, V.M. Lesser, and D.Yang. 2007. The Oregon Surfer Survey: Procedures and Results. 60 pp. Newton, L. V.M. Lesser, and Daniel Yang. 2007. The Oregon State University Undergraduate Biology Program Exit Survey 2006-2007: Procedures and Results. 42 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2008. Satisfaction Survey for 26 Parks in the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department. Conducted for Oregon State Parks and Recreation. 950 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2008. Procedures for Data Collected in the 2008 Oregon Environment Awareness Survey. 772 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2008. The Oregon State University Blackboard Tools Evaluation Survey. 179 pp.

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Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2008 College of Health and Human Science Faculty and Staff Diversity Climate Survey. Procedures for Data Collected in the 2008 Environment Awareness Survey. 426 pp. Zhang, L., V.M. Lesser, and L. Newton. 2008 Oregon Department of Transportation Tripcheck Survey. 32 pp. Newton, L., V.M. Lesser, and D. Yang. The 2008 Undergraduate Biology Program Exit Survey. 40 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2007/08 Accessible Transportation Survey of People with Disabilities - Surveying Members of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 210 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2008. Boating in Oregon: Results of the 2007 Triennial Boating Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Marine Board. 1100 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2008. Evaluation of Oregon Department of Transportation Maintenance Crews. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 653 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D.Yang. 2008. Final Report: Do Oregon Taxpayers Cheat on Their Taxes? Conducted for the Oregon Department of Revenue. 325 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2009. Procedures and Opinions of Oregonians on the Needs and Issues for Oregon Highways. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Transportation. 1280 pp. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2009. Procedures and Results of Data Collected for the 2008 Off Highway Vehicle Survey on Fuel Consumption. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation and Oregon State Parks and Recreation. 482 pp. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2010. Procedures and Results of Data Collected for Investing In Oregon’s Future: An Assessment of Learning Attitudes and Behavior for the Oregon Open Campus Project. Conducted for Oregon State University Extension Service. 150 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2010. Procedures of Data Collected for the 2010 Oregon Department of Transportation Needs and Issues Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Transportation. 499 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2010. Procedures of Data Collected for the Spring 2010 Oregon Department of Transportation State Highway Quality Survey. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 653 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2010. Procedures and Results of Data Collected for the

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2008-2009 Oregon Motorboat Fuel Use Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Marine Board. 73 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2011. Boating in Oregon: Results of the 2010 Triennial Boating Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Marine Board. 980 pp. Newton, L. V.M. Lesser, and Daniel Yang. 2011. The Oregon State University Undergraduate Biology Program Exit Survey 2010-11: Procedures and Results. Lesser, V.M, L. Newton, and D.Yang. 2011. Evaluation of the Transportation Patterns of Hazardous Materials in Oregon. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 1500 pp. Newton, L., K. Nason, J. Sifneos, V.M. Lesser. 2012. The Oregon State University Health and Wellness Survey 2011-2012. Conducted for Oregon State University. 98 pages. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, K. Nason, and A. James. 2012. Procedures of Data Collected for the Spring 2012 Oregon Department of Transportation State Highway Quality Survey. Conducted for Oregon Department of Transportation. 305 pp. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. 2012. Procedures of Data Collected for the 2012 Oregon Department of Transportation Needs and Issues Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Transportation. 618 pp. Nason, K., V.M. Lesser, and L. Newton. 2013. City of Corvallis 2012 Citizen Survey Report. Conducted for the City of Corvallis, 299 pages. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, K. Nason, and J. Sifneos. 2013. Angling in Oregon: A survey design to understand angler’s opinions about fishing in Oregon and Wild Fish Conservation and Management Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 1000 pages. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, K. Nason, and J. Sifneos. 2014. 2013 Department of Transportation Tripcheck Survey. Conducted for the Oregon Department of Transportation, 282 pages. PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS Invited Presentations - National and International Meetings (presenter is underlined) Lesser, V.M. and P. Geissler. Statistical Methods for Crop Dose-Response Studies in Europe and the USA. European Commission International Conference of Air Pollution and Crop Response in Europe, Tervuren, Belgium. November, 1992. Lesser, V.M. and W.D. Kalsbeek. Nonsampling Errors in Environmental Surveys. American Statistical Association Meetings, Anaheim, California. August, 1997.

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Lesser, V.M. Nonsampling Errors in the Environmental Monitoring Assessment Program: How Large, How Intractable? Conference on Environmental Surveys Over Time. EPA, USDA, and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. February, 1998. Mason, R., V. M. Lesser, and M. Trauggot. Impact of Missing Values from Converted Refusals on Nonsampling Error. American Statistical Association - International Meeting on Nonresponse, Portland, Oregon. November, 1999. Munoz, B., V.M. Lesser, J. Dorney, and F. Obusek. Survey Methodology for Assessing Geographically Isolated Wetlands Map Accuracy. 2007 Environmental Monitoring Assessment Program, Washington, DC. April 2007. Lesser, V.M. and B. Munoz. Applying Multiple Imputation with Geostatistic Models to Account for Item Nonresponse in Environmental Data. Western Division American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. May 2008. Lesser, V. M. Preventing and Designing to Control for Nonresponse in Environmental Surveys. New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries Workshop on Marine Recreational Catch, Wellington, New Zealand, August 2009. Lesser, V. M. Adjusting for Frame and Nonresponse Errors in Environmental Surveys.. New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries Workshop on Marine Recreational Catch, Wellington, New Zealand, August 2009. Contributed Presentations - National and International Meetings Lesser, V.M. and W.D. Kalsbeek. A Comparison of Periodic Survey Designs Employing Multi-Stage Sampling. American Statistical Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia. August, 1991. Lesser, V.M. and T. Olsen. Sampling Designs Over Time and Space for National Natural Resource Monitoring Programs. International Statistical Association Meetings, Florence, Italy. August, 1993. Mason, R., and V.M. Lesser. Attitude Chaining. Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. May, 1995. Lesser, V.M. and F.L. Ramsey. Conditional and Unconditional Estimators of Population Size. V.M. Lesser and F.L. Ramsey. American Statistical Association Meetings, Orlando, Florida. August, 1995. Mason, R., V.M. Lesser, and M. Traugott. Weighting Converted Refusals in Random Digit Dialing Sample Surveys. Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. May, 1997. Ormrod, D.P., V.M. Lesser, D.M. Olszyk, and D.T. Tingey. Douglas-fir Needle Pigment

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Response to Climate Change, and Correlations with Seedling Growth. Joint Meetings of the American and Canadian Societies of Plant Physiologists, Vancouver, British Columbia. August 1997. Ormrod, D.P., V.M. Lesser, D.M. Olszyk, and D.T. Tingey. Douglas-fir Needle Pigment Response to Climate Change, and Correlations with Seedling Growth. North American Forest Biology Workshop and the Western Forest Genetics Association Meetings, Victoria, British Columbia. June, 1998. Munoz-Hernandez, B., V. M. Lesser, F. L. Ramsey. Design-based Empirical Orthogonal Function Model for Environmental Monitoring Data Analysis. American Statistical Association Meetings, Dallas, Texas. August, 1998. Lesser, V.M., D. A. Dillman, J. Carlson, T. Brown, and Fred Lorenz. How Token Incentives Influence Response to Mail Surveys: Correspondence Between a General Theory and Results From New Research. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociology Society, Portland, Oregon. August, 1998. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. Nonresponse Errors in Environmental Surveys: Obtaining Access to Private Property. American Statistical Association - International Meeting on Nonresponse, Portland, Oregon. November, 1999. Munoz-Hernandez, B., V.M. Lesser, and F. L. Ramsey. Auxiliary Information in the Empirical Orthogonal Function Models. American Statistical Association Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland. August, 1999. Dillman, D.A., V. M. Lesser, R. Mason, J. Carlson, F. Willits, and A. Jackson. Personalization vs. Depersonalization of Mail Surveys: A New Look at an Old Variable. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociology Society, Chicago, Illinois. August, 1999. Lesser, V.M., D.A. Dillman, J. Carlson, F. O. Lorenz, R. Mason, and F. Willits. Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys Providing Financial Incentives. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociology Society, Washington, DC. August, 2000. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. Mail, Email and Web Surveys: A Cost and Response Rate Comparison in a Study of Undergraduate Research Activity. Annual Conference for the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Montreal, Quebec, May, 2001. Lesser, V.M. and J. Carlson. Quantifying the Influences of Incentives on Mail Survey Response Rates and Their Effects on Nonresponse Error. American Statistical Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, August, 2001 and the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociology Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August, 2001. Lorenz, F.O., J. Saltiel, and V.M. Lesser. Effects of the Order in which General vs. Specific Questions are Asked in Surveys. American Statistical Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia,

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August, 2001 and the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociology Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August, 2001. Dillman, D.A., R.G. Mason, R. Robertson, V.M. Lesser and F. Willits. Personalization of Mail Surveys on General Public and Other Populations. Annual Conferences of the American Statistical Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, August, 2001 and the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociology Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August, 2001. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. Comparison of Response Rates and Quality of Response in a Survey Conducted by Mail, Email and Web. Annual Conference for the American Association for Public Opinion Research, St. Petersburg, Florida, May, 2002. Smith-Cayama, R., Muñoz-Hernández, B. and V. Lesser. Evaluation of Some Methods for Non-response in Environmental Data. American Statistical Association Meetings, New York City, New York, August, 2002. Muñoz-Hernández, B., Smith-Cayama, R., and V. Lesser. Application of the Design-based EOF to Combined Data Sets. American Statistical Association Meetings, New York City, New York, August, 2002. Smith-Cayama, R., B. Muñoz-Hernández, and V.M. Lesser. Models for Nonresponse and Missing Data. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, August, 2003. Muñoz-Hernández, B., R. Smith-Cayama, and V.M. Lesser. Model-based Approach for Handling the Non-ignorable Missing Data Mechanism in Environmental Surveys. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, August, 2003. Amer, S., V. Lesser, and R. Burton. Neural Network Imputation, A New Fashion or A Good Tool: Linear Neural Network Imputation. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, August, 2003. Munoz-Hernandez, B. and V.M. Lesser. Adjustment procedures to account for non-ignorable missing data in environmental surveys. Presented at the International Environmetrics Society Meetings, Portland, Maine, June, 2004. Lesser, V.M. and Munoz-Hernandez, B. A Weighting Class Adjustment Estimator for the Total under a Stratified Sampling Design in a Continuous Domain. Presented at the International Statistics Institute Meetings, Sydney, Australia, April, 2005. Donatelle, R.J., L. D. Hudson, V. Lesser, S.R.Dobie, A. Goodall, and G. Legaz. Factors that predict the effectiveness of contingency management on smoking cessation during pregnancy: the Miss project. Presented at the SBM Meetings, Boston, MA, April, 2005. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. Evaluating nonsampling errors in a study conducted by web and

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mail. Presented at the Annual Conference for the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Miami Beach, Florida, May, 2005. Harrod, L.A., V.M. Lesser, and A. Qu. An application of estimating equation and quadratic inference functions in complex surveys. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2005. Donatelle, R.J., L. D. Hudson, V. Lesser, S.R.Dobie, A. Goodall, and G. Legaz. Using incentives and social support to motivate smoking cessation in pregnancy: Lessons learned and future directions. Presented at the American Public Health Association Meetings, New Oreleans, LA, November, 2005. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. Comparing the Use of Color in Mail Questionnaires. Annual Conference for the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Montreal, Quebec, May, 2006. Munoz-Hernandez, B., V.M. Lesser, and L.A. Harrod. A Weighting Class Adjustment Estimator in a Continuous Domain. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Seattle, WA, August, 2006. Harrod, L.A. and V.M. Lesser. Use of propensity scores to adjust for nonresponse. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Seattle, WA, August, 2006. Lesser, V.M. Evaluation Airline Transportation for People with a Disability. Presented at the State of the Science Conference for the National Center for Accessible Transportation, Portland, Oregon, October, 2006. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. Survey of Air Travel Needs and Experiences for People with Disabilities. Presented at the International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED), June 2007. Lesser, V.M. Advantages and Disadvantages of Probability and Non-Probability Based Surveys of the Elderly and Disabled. Presented at the International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED), June 2007. Lesser, V.M. The Influence of Color and Space Constraints on Responses to Open-ended Questions in Paper Questionnaires. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah, July, 2007. Lesser, V.M. and L. Newton. Comparison of Delivery Methods in a Survey Distributed by Internet, Mail, and Telephone. Presented at the International Statistics Institute Meetings, Lisbon, Portugal, August, 2007. Munoz, B, V. M. Lesser, J. Dorney and R. Savage. Survey Methodology for Assessing Geographically Isolated Wetlands Map Accuracy. Presented at Wetlands 2007 – National

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Symposium, Williamsburg, Virginia, August, 2007. Munoz, B, V. M. Lesser, J. Dorney and R. Savage. Survey Methodology for Assessing Geographically Isolated Wetlands Map Accuracy. Presented at Washington Statistics Society, Washington DC, September, 2007. Lesser, V.M. and K. Hunter-Zaworski. Results of An Air Travel Survey On The Needs And Experiences For Individuals With Disabilities. Presented at the International Conference on Aging and Disability, February, 2008. Lesser, V.M., K. Hunter-Zaworski, L. Newton and D. Yang. Using Multiple Survey Modes in a Study of Individuals with Disabilities. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, May, 2008. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. Evaluating Frames and Modes of Contact in a Study of Individuals with Disabilities. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Denver, Colorado, August, 2008. Lesser, V.M. and D. Yang. Alternatives to Phone Surveys: a study comparing Random Digit Dialing with Mail and Web using the Postal Delivery Sequence File. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Hollywood, Florida, May, 2009. Starcevich, L.A. and V.M.Lesser. Propensity Score Methodology for Nonignorable Nonresponse. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Washington, DC, August, 2009. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, and D. Yang. Does Providing a Choice of Survey Modes Influence Response? Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Illinois, May, 2010. Munoz, B, V. M. Lesser, and J. Hersey. Evaluation of Methods for Dealing with Outcome Missing Data in Random Controlled Trials. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, August, 2010. Yang, D.K., Gitelman, A.I., Lesser, V.M., and D.S. Birkes. Improving the Propensity Score Equal Frequency Adjustment Estimator Using an Alternative Weight. Presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, August, 2010. Lorenz, F., L. Hildreth, V.M. Lesser, and U. Genshel. General-specific questions in survey research: a confirmatory factor analysis approach. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociology Society, August, 2010. Lesser, V.M., A. Olstad, D. Yang, L. Newton. Comparing Item Nonresponse and Responses Across Modes in General Population Surveys. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Phoenix, Arizona, May, 2011.

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Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, D. Yang. Evaluating Methodologies to Increase Internet Responses in Mixed-Mode Surveys. Presented at the International Statistics Institute Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, August, 2011. Lesser, V.M., D. Yang, L. Newton. Trends in Mail Survey Response Rates: An Analysis of Monthly Response Rates. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Orlando, Florida, May, 2012. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, D. Yang, J.Sifneos, K. Nason. Comparing Response Rates, Demographics and Costs in Mail and Mixed-Mode Surveys. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Boston, MA, 2013. Newton, L., A. James, V.M. Lesser. Question Order and Response. Presented at the International Field Directors and Technology Conference, Boston, MA. May, 2013. Lesser, V.M., L. Newton, D. Yang. Does Internet Use Improve Surveys?: Studies of Costs, Response Rates and Coverage. Presented at the 5th European Survey Research Association Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013. Newton, L., A. James, V.M. Lesser. Comparing Response Rates Across Modes in Studies of Specialized Populations. To be presented at the International Field Directors and Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA. May, 2014. James, A., L. Xue, V.M. Lesser. Nonparametric Information Criterion for Model-Assisted Survey Estimators. To be presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Boston, MA, August, 2014. Payton, Q., P. Murtaugh, V.M. Lesser. Modeling Density Dependence in the Presence of Observation Error. To be presented at the American Statistical Association Meetings, Boston, MA, August, 2014. Organizational Responsibilities at National Meetings Session Chair American Statistical Association Meetings, Dallas, Texas. August, 1998. American Statistical Association Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland. August, 1999. American Statistical Association Meetings, Dallas, Texas. August, 2001. American Statistical Association Meetings, New York City, New York. August, 2002. American Statistical Association Meetings, Minneapolis, Minnesota. August, 2005. American Statistical Association Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah. August, 2007. International Statistics Meetings, Dublin, Ireland, August, 2011. Discussant American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting, 2002.

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University Seminars Importance of Statistics in Agriculture. Presented at the University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, September, 1991. Statistical Methods for Crop Dose-Response Studies in Europe and the USA. Presented at Oregon State University Statistics Seminar, November, 1992. Nonsampling Errors in Environmental Surveys. Presented at Oregon State University Statistics Seminar, October, 1997. Nonsampling Errors in Environmental Surveys. Presented at Portland State University Applied Statistics Seminar, February, 1998. Quantifying the Influence of Financial Incentives on Mail Survey Response Rates. Presented at Oregon State University Statistics Seminar, April, 2001. Improving Response Rates in Student Surveys. Presented at OSU Student Affairs Assessment Showcase, May, 2001. Quantifying the Influence of Financial Incentives on Survey Error. Presented at University of Southampton Social Statistics Seminar, February 2003. Quantifying the Influence of Financial Incentives on Mail Survey Response Rates. Presented at University of Essex Statistics Seminar, May, 2003. Environmental Statistics. Presented at Lebanon Valley College Biology Department Seminar, April, 2004. The Spectrum of Statistics. Presented at University of Portland Mathematics Department Seminar, November, 2004. Applying Multiple Imputation with Geostatistic Models to Account for Item Nonresponse in Environmental Data, Oregon State University Seminar, February, 2007. The Changing Landscape of Survey Methodology: Can the Internet Replace Traditional Methods?, Oregon State University Seminar, October, 2010. Understanding How Surveys Work. Academy for Advanced Learning, Corvallis, Oregon, October 2011. Other Invited Presentations

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U.S. Census Bureau Does Providing a Choice of Survey Modes Influence Response? A Summary of Mixed Mode Studies Conducted in Oregon, September, 2010. Guest lectures on survey methods: Scientific and Technical Communication Class, 1994-1995, 1997-1998. Fisheries and Wildlife Dept. Human Dimensions Committee, April 1997. Mathematics Education Class, October 1998. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Class, May, 1999. University Undergraduate Research Team, September, 1999. University Trade and Licensing Committee, August, 2000. Market Research Methods, University of Southampton Social Statistics Department, March, 2003. (Two Lectures). Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Class, May, 2004. Research Methodology in Health and Safety, October 2005-2010. Invited seminars to Oregon State Departments and Meetings Summary of Results for the 2006 Oregon Department of Transportation Needs and Issues Survey, ODOT Steering Committee, March, 2007. The Lifespan of a Survey: An Introduction to Survey Design and Analysis, Family and Community Development Statewide In-Service Symposium, May, 2007. Applying Multiple Imputation with Geostatistic Models to Account for Item Nonresponse in Environmental Data, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, June, 2007. Understanding How Surveys Work, Academy for Lifetime Learning, October, 2011. Surveys for Oregon, OSU Triad, April, 2012. High School Seminars Invited seminar in the OSU College of Science Connections Seminar Series for the Portland Oregon School District. Presented seminar titled: Statistics in the Environment. Cleveland High School, Portland, Oregon, January, 2004. Invited seminar in an AP Statistics Class in Corvallis Oregon School District. Presented Seminar titled: Survey Methodology as a Profession. Corvallis High School, Corvallis, Oregon, December 2005. Invited seminar in an AP Statistics Class in Corvallis Oregon School District. Presented Seminar titled: Introduction to Surveys. Corvallis High School, Corvallis, Oregon, December 2005, 2007, 2009. Invitations to Attend Conferences

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Invited Participant to NSF-CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Science: Environmental Statistics, University of Washington, June, 2001. Invited Participant to the discuss nonresponse in the Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey, Food Standards Agency, London, England, March, 2003. Participant in Conference on Best Practices for Surveying People with Disabilities, Washington, DC, April 2004. AWARDS Excellence in Service Award, Oregon Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2006. Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2010. Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2010. GRANT AND CONTRACT SUPPORT Determining Principal Variables of the USEPA Eastern and Western Lake Surveys, Environmental Protection Agency, $68,850, 1989-1991, Co-principal Investigator (at University of North Carolina). Sampling Design and Statistics Research for EMAP Aquatic Resources, Environmental Protection Agency, $239,398, 1994-1997, Principal Investigator. Survey Research Center Interagency Agreements with various Oregon State Agencies , Average approximately $100,000 per year; 1994-2002, Principal Investigator. Survey Research Center Interagency Agreements with various Oregon State Agencies , Average approximately $175,000 per year; 2003-present, Principal Investigator. Smoking Cessation Study, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Statistical Consultant (Rebecca Donatelle, Principal Investigator). $850,000, 2000-2005. Research Program on Statistical Survey Design and Analysis for Aquatic Resources, Environmental Protection Agency Star Grant, $2,989,884, 2001-2005. Don Stevens, Program Director. Lesser is Principal Investigator for one of the three statistical methodology projects supported in this program titled, The Development of Model Assisted Survey Methods for Environmental Surveys ($639,717 for years 2001-2005). Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation, U.S. Department of Education, National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, $4,700,000, 2003-2008. Lesser is Co-principal Investigator to provide statistical support and conduct survey methodology studies.

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Oregon Department of Transportation Needs Survey, Oregon Department of Transportation, $115,332, 2006-2007, Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Transportation Off-Highway Vehicle Survey, Oregon Department of Transportation, $70,000, 2008-2009, Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Administrative Services, Oregon Marine Use Survey, $56,000, 2009-2010, Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Transportation Needs Survey, Oregon Department of Transportation, $64,400, 2010, Principal Investigator. Researching Accessibility Gaps in Transit Hub Communication Systems and Standards, U.S. Department of Education, National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research $598,735, 2009-2012. Kate Hunter-Zaworski, Program Director. Lesser is Co-principal Investigator for the survey work on the project. Oregon State Marine Board Triennial Survey, Oregon State Marine Board, $70,560, 2010-2011, Principal Investigator. Montana State University, Center for Health and Safety Culture Survey, $23,184, 2011-2012, Principal Investigator. City of Corvallis, Citizen Attitude Survey, $6,426, 2012, Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Transportation Needs Survey, Oregon Department of Transportation, $66,276, 2012, Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, $70,000, 2012-2013; Principal Investigator. Oregon State Marine Board Fuel and Recreation Survey, $96,170, 2013-2014; Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Transportation Tripcheck Survey, $14,300, 2013-2014; Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Ammunition Study, $42,000, 2013-2014; Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles Survey, $27,000, 2013-2014; Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles Survey, $27,600, 2014-2015; Principal Investigator. Oregon Department of Transportation Maintenance Crew Survey, $31,000, 2014; Principal

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Investigator. Updated 2014

Debashis Mondal

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

Oregon State University

CONTACT INFORMATION

Oregon State University Phone: (541) 737-1986

Department of Statistics E–mail: [email protected]

44 Kidder Hall Web: http://stat.oregonstate.edu/people/mondal-debashis

Corvallis, OR, 97331, U.S.A.

PERSONAL

Citizen of India,

Permanent resident of the United States of America.

EDUCATION

university of washington, 2002–2007

PhD in Statistics, 2007

Thesis Title: Wavelet Variance Analysis for Time Series and Random Fields

Advisors: Donald B. Percival and Peter Guttorp

indian statistical institute, 1997–2002

Master in Statistics, 2002

specialization: Mathematical Statistics and Probability

Honors with distinction

Bachelor in Statistics, 2000

Honors with distinction

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2014– Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University.

2007–2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and the College, University of Chicago.

2006–07, Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

2005–06, Statistical Consultant, Urban Ecology Research Lab, University of Washington.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Marina Alberti.

2002–05, Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.

RESEARCH ADVISORS: Donald B. Percival, Peter Guttorp and Christopher S. Bretherton.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Wavelet analysis of variance, time series, geostatistics, Markov and subordinated random fields, Markov

chain Monte Carlo computations, Matrix-free methods. Application in agriculture, astronomy, atmospheric

sciences, geographical epidemiology and environmental sciences.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Early Career Researchers Travel Grant award for ISBA 2012 world meeting at Kyoto, Japan.

• Z.W. Birnbaum award, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, 2005.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Mondal, D. New Directions in Spatial Statistics. National Science Foundation CAREER award;

July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2018; $400000.

Mondal, D. Connecting Markov Random Fields with Geostatistical Models. National Science

Foundation; August 1, 2009 – July 31, 2012; $150000.

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PUBLICATIONS AND PREPRINTS

18. Dutta, S. and Mondal, D. (2015). Residual maximum likelihood analysis for spatial mixed

linear models based on intrinsic Matern dependence with nugget effects. To be submitted.

17. Chaudhuri, S., Mondal, D. and Yin, T. (2014). Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Bayesian

empirical likelihood computation. Under review in Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series

B.

16. Mondal, D. and Hinrichs, N. (2014). Rank tests from partially ordered data with impor-

tance and MCMC sampling methods. Under review at Statistical Science.

15. Mondal, D. (2014). On edge corrections and the local quadratic property of intrinsic au-

toregressions. Under revision at Biometrika.

14. Craigmile, P. and Mondal, D. (2014). Estimation of long range dependence in gappy

Gaussian time series. Under revision at Electronic Journal of Statistics.

13. Mondal, D. (2014). Generalized Gaussian Markov random fields and modeling disease risk.

Under revision for the Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series B.

12. Dutta, S. and Mondal, D. (2014). An h-likelihood method for spatial mixed linear models

based on intrinsic autoregressions. To appear in Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series

B.

11. Mondal, D. (2014). Applying Dynkin’s isomorphism: an alternative approach to understand

the Markov property of the de Wijs process. To appear in Bernoulli.

10. Besag, J. E. and Mondal, D. (2013). Exact goodness-of-fit tests for Markov chains.

Biometrics. doi: 10.1111/biom.12009. Featured in Biometrics showcase session, JSM, 2014.

9. Mondal, D. and Zhang, L. (2012). Wavelet variance analysis for heavy-tailed time series

with applications to hydrology. Under revision for Environmetrics.

8. Mondal, D. and Percival, D. B. (2012). Slepian wavelet variances for regularly and

irregularly sampled time series. Chapter 38 in Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy

V, edited by G. J. babu and E. D. Feigelson, Springer Verlag, New York, 403–418.

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7. Percival, D. B. and Mondal, D. (2012). A wavelet variance primer. Chapter 22 in

Handbook of statistics Vol 30: Time Series, edited by Tata Subba Rao and C.R.Rao, Sc.D.,

FRS. Elsevier, Chennai, 623–657.

6. Mondal, D. and Percival, D. B. (2012). Wavelet variance analysis for random fields.

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 21, 537–549.

5. Mondal, D. and Percival, D. B. (2012). M -Estimation of Wavelet Variance. Annals of

the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 64, 27–53

4. Mondal, D. and Percival, D. B. (2010). Wavelet variance analysis for gappy time series.

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 62, 943–966

3. Mondal, D. (2007). Wavelet variance analysis for time series and random fields. PhD

thesis. Department of Statistics. University of washington.

2. Besag, J. E. and Mondal, D. (2005). First–order intrinsic autoregressions and the de

Wijs process. Biometrika, 92, 909–920.

1. Mukhopadhyay G., Mondal D., Biswas P. and Dewanji A. (2004). Water quality mon-

itoring of tropical ponds: Location and depth effect in two case studies. Acta Hydrochimica

et Hydrobiologica, 32, 138–148.

DISCUSSIONS ETC.

3. Mondal, D. (2011). Discussion on the paper “An explicit link between Gaussian fields and

Gaussian Markov random fields: The SPDE approach”. Journal of Royal Statistical Society:

Series B, 73, 483

2. Rue, H., Martino, S., Mondal, D. and Chopin, N. (2010). Discussion on the paper

“Geostatistical inference under preferential sampling”. Journal of Royal Statistical Society:

Series C, 59, 221–222.

1. Mondal, D. (2008). Discussion on the paper “Approximate Bayesian inference for latent

Gaussian models by using integrated nested Laplace approximations”. Journal of Royal

Statistical Society: Series B, 71 376.

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TECHNICAL REPORTS.

2. Mondal, D. and Percival, D. B. (2008). Wavelet variance analysis for time series with

missing values. Technical report no. 535, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.

1. Mondal, D. (2005). Variogram calculations for first-order intrinsic autoregressions and the

de Wijs process. Technical Report 479, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

50. Mondal, D. “Matrix-Free Computations for Gaussian Markov Random Fields and Related

Spatial Processes”, Indian Statistical Institute, January 2015, Calcutta, India.

49. Mondal, D. “ Wavelet spectral analysis for irregularly sampled astronomical time series”,

Statistical challenges in astronomy, IASSL, December 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka


Spatial Processes”, National University of Singapore, December 2014, Singapore, Singapore.

47. Mondal, D. “Applying Dynkin’s isomorphism: an alternative approach to understand the

Markov property of the de Wijs process”, Probability Seminar, Oregon State University,

November 2014, Corvallis, USA.

46. Mondal, D. “Exact goodness-of-fit tests for Markov chains”, Mathematical Biology Seminar,

Oregon State University, October 2014, Corvallis, USA.

45. Mondal, D. “Exact goodness-of-fit tests for Markov chains”, Biometrics showcase session

with discussions by Michael Newton and Peter Green, Joint Statistical Meeting, August 2014,

Boston, USA.

44. Mondal, D. “Wavelet variance analysis for gappy time series”, Department of Informa-

tion, Operations, and Management Sciences, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York

University, October 2013, New York, USA.

43. Mondal, D. “Connecting Markov Random Fields with Geostatistical Models”, Center for

Statistical Sciences, Brown University, September 2012, Providence, USA.

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42. Mondal, D. “ Wavelet spectral analysis for irregularly sampled astronomical time series”,

Statistical challenges in astronomy, 59th World Statistics Congress, August 2013, Hong Kong,

China.

41. Mondal, D. “Wavelet-based estimation of the long memory parameter in Gaussian non-

gappy and gappy time series”, The 15th Brazilian Time Series and Econometrics School,

August 2013, Teresopolis, Brazil.


Spatial Processes on Regular Lattice”, Joint Statistical Meeting, August 2013, Montreal,

Canada.

39. Mondal, D. “Wavelet Spectral Analysis for Irregularly Sampled Time Series”, Department

of Statistics, University of Chicago, May 2013, Chicago, USA.

38. Mondal, D. “H-likelihood and related computations for sparse spatial mixed linear models”,

Workshop on Spatial Statistics, Colorado State University, April 2013, Fort Collins, USA.

37. Mondal, D. “Bayesian Computations and Spatial Analysis of Areal-unit Data”, ISBA Re-

gional Meeting and International Conference on Bayesian Theory and Applications, January

2013, Varanasi, India.

36. Mondal, D. “Disease mapping with area and population information”, University of Miami

Spatial Statistics Conference, December 2012, Miami, USA.

35. Mondal, D. “Spatial analysis of environmental bioassays”, ISBA World meeting, June 2012,

Kyoto, Japan.

34. Mondal, D. “Spatial analysis of areal unit data”, WNAR-Graybill Conference 2012, Uni-

versity of Colorado, June 2012, Fort Collins, USA.

33. Mondal, D. “Wavelet Spectral Analysis for Irregularly Sampled Time Series”, Center for

Time Domain Informatics, University of California, April 2012, Berkeley, USA.

32. Mondal, D. “Smoothing wind fields from scatterometer data”, 22nd Annual Conference of

The International Environmetrics Society, January 2012, Hyderabad, India.

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31. Mondal, D. “Disease mapping with area and population density information”, Statistical

Concepts and Methods for the Modern World, December 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

30. Mondal, D. “Wavelet variance analysis for gappy time series”, Indian Statistical Institute,

September 2011, Calcutta, India.

29. Mondal, D. “Wavelet variance analysis for time series and random fields”, General Motors,

August 2011, Bangalore, India.

28. Mondal, D. “Wavelet variance analysis for gappy time series”, Indian Institute of Science,

August 2011, Bangalore, India.

27. Mondal, D. “Wavelet variance analysis of irregularly sampled time series”, Statistical Chal-

lenges in Modern Astronomy IV , June 2011, State College, USA.

26. Mondal, D. “On threshold estimation problem in visual field analysis”, International Indian

Statistical Association Conference, April 2011, Raleigh, USA.

25. Mondal, D. “Wavelet analysis of variance for gappy time series”, Department of Mathemat-

ics, University of Manchester, April 2011, Manchester, UK.

24. Mondal, D. “Generalized Gaussian Markov random fields and modeling disease risk”, Di-

vision of Medicine, Lancaster University, April 2011, Lancaster, UK.

23. Mondal, D. “Continuum limits of Markov random fields and spatial statistics”, Stochastic

modelling and statistical analysis: a Symposium in honour of Julian Besag FRS. University

of Bristol, April 2011, Bristol, UK.

22. Mondal, D. “Wavelet analysis of variance for gappy time series”, Department of Mathemat-

ics, University of Bristol, April 2011, Bristol, UK.

21. Mondal, D. “Connecting Markov Random Fields with Geostatistical Models”, Department

of Statistics, University of Michigan, November 2010, Ann Arbor, USA.

20. Mondal, D. “Connecting Markov Random Fields with Geostatistical Models”, Department

of Statistics, Western Michigan University, November 2010, Kalamazoo, USA.

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19. Mondal, D. “Gaussian Random Fields and Spatial Statistics”, Department of Statistics,

University of Chicago, April 2010, Chicago, USA.

18. Mondal, D. “Wavelet Variance Analysis for Time Series and Random Fields”, Norwegian

Polar Institute, September 2009, Tromso, Norway.

17. Mondal, D. “On M-estimation of Wavelet variance”, Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine,

September 2009, Tromso, Norway.

16. Mondal, D. “Gaussian Random Fields and Spatial Statistics”, Department of Mathemati-

cal Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, September 2009, Trondheim,

Norway.

15. Mondal, D. “Gaussian Random Fields and Spatial Statistics”, National Center for Atmo-

spheric Sciences, August 2009, Boulder, USA.

14. Mondal, D. “De Wijs Process and Modeling Disease Risk”, International Mathematical

Statistics New Researchers Conference, July 2009, Baltimore, USA.

13. Mondal, D. and Percival, D. B. “M-estimation of Wavelet variance”, International Con-

ference on Robust Statistics, June 2009, Parma, Italy.

12. Mondal, D. “Gaussian Random Fields and Spatial Statistics”, Department of Statistics and

Probability, Michigan State University, February 2009, East Lansing, USA.

11. Mondal, D. “Gaussian Random Fields and Spatial Statistics”, Department of Statistics,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2008, Champaign, USA.

10. Mondal, D. “Wavelet variance analysis for time series and random fields”, Department of

Statistics, University of Pennsylvania, March 2007, Philadelphia, USA.


Statistics, University of Chicago, February 2007, Chicago, USA.


Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, February 2007, Pittsburgh, USA.

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Statistics, University of California, Davis, February 2007, Davis, USA.


Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, February 2007, Berkeley, USA.

5. Mondal, D. and Percival, D. B. “Wavelet variance analysis for random fields”, Joint

Statistical Meetings (JSM), August 2006, Seattle, USA.

4. Besag, J. E. and Mondal D. “Bayesian spatial analysis of unreplicated experiments with

checkplots”, presented by Besag, J. E. at the ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meet-

ings, November 2005, Salt Lake City, USA.

3. Mondal, D. and Percival, D. B. “Wavelet variance analysis for gappy time series”,

European Geoscience Union (EGU), April 2005, Vienna, Austria.

2. Mondal, D. and Besag, J. E. “Intrinsic autoregressions and the de Wijs process”, Joint

Statistical Meetings (JSM), August 2004, Toronto, Canada.

1. Mondal, D. “Semiparametric estimation of height growth curve for children with abnor-

mal growth”, P. C. Mahanalobis Symposium Lecture, Indian Statistical Institute, June 2002,

Calcutta, India.

SHORT COURSES:

1. Wavelet variance analysis for time series. 15th Brazilian School of Time Series and Econo-

metrics, August 12-14, 2013, Terespolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

in Oregon State University:

Instructor: Stat 567, Winter 2015

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in University of Chicago:

Instructor: Stat 40106, Fall, 2008, Winter 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Winter 2011,

Fall 2012, Winter 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013

Instructor: Stat 31200, Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Fall 2013

Instructor: Stat 36800, Fall, 2008

Instructor: Stat 33630, Winter, 2010

Instructor: Stat 24500, Spring, 2008, Spring 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2013, Winter 2014

Instructor: Stat 24400, Fall, 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013

Instructor: Stat 22000, Winter, 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011

in University of Washington:

Instructor: Stat/Math 394 and Stat/Math 395, Summer, 2007

Teaching Assistant: Stat 583 and Stat 391, Spring, 2007

Teaching Assistant: Stat 582, Winter, 2007

Teaching Assistant: Stat 581 and Stat 481/ Econ 580, Fall, 2006

PhD Students:

1. Somak Dutta, PhD Candidate in Statistics, University of Chicago, 2010-present

BA/MS and MS Students at University of Chicago

Wesley Lee (2014), David Leesok Kim (2014), Shan Abraham (Winter 2013), Muzi Li (Fall 2012),

Lezhen Wu (Summer 2012), YanQi Lin (Summer 2012), Kyodong Kum (Fall 2011), Hyung Il

Kang, (Winter 2011), Lior Rennert (Winter 2011), Lingjiao Zhang (Fall 2010), Guillaume Pouliot

(BA/MS, Summer 2010), Yuwei Cui (Fall 2008).

MEMBERS OF PhD COMMITTEES

Xiaohui Chang (2012, Statistics, University of Chicago, Mike Stein, Chair), Joe Guinness (2012,

Statistics, University of Chicago, Mike Stein, Chair), Yinxiao Huang (2011, Statistics, University

of Chicago, Wei Biao Wu, Chair)

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MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Served as a reviewer for following journals: Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of Statistics, Com-

munications in Statistics Theory and Methods, Ecology, Environmental and Ecological Statistics,

Entropy, Environmetrics, European Journal of Soil Science, IEEE Transactions on Image Process-

ing, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Inverse Problems (Institute of Physics), Journal of

Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Journal Of Exposure Science And Environ-

mental Epidemiology, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Journal of Environmen-

tal Radioactivity, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Nonparametric Statistic, Journal

of Royal Statistical Society: Series B, Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Journal of

Statistical Planning and Inference, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Linear Algebra

and its Applications, Nature Geoscience, Mathematical Reviews (American Mathematical Society),

Sankhya A, SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, Statistical Methodology, Statistical

Science and Statistica Sinica, Water resources research.

Served as a reviewer on proposals submitted to: National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science

Foundation

Organized a spatial topic session at ISBA world meeting, June 2012, Kyoto, Japan.

Organized an invited paper session at Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2013, Montreal, Canada.

Organized an invited paper session at IISA 2014 conference in North America , July 2014, Riverside, USA.

Organized an invited paper session at The 3rd Institute of Mathematical Statistics Asia Pacific Rim Meeting,

June-July 2014, Taipei.

Organized invited sessions at “Institute of Applied Statistics” December 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Organizing an introductory lectures session at Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2015, Seattle, USA.

Membership of Academic Organizations

Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, The International

Environmental Society, Bernoulli Society, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Applied

Probability Society, International Indian Statistical Association.

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THOMAS JEFFERSON SHARPTONDepartment of Microbiology Oregon State University 226 Nash Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331 tel: (541) 737-8623 fax: (541) 737-0496

[email protected] lab.sharpton.org

@tjsharpton github.com/sharpton

EDUCATION 2009 University of California, Berkeley, CA

Ph.D., Microbiology, Designated Emphasis in Computational Biology

2003 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR B.S. (Cum Laude), Biochemistry and Biophysics.

APPOINTMENTS 2013- Assistant Professor Departments of Microbiology and Statistics, Oregon State University 2009-2013 Bioinformatics Fellow Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes Mentors: Katherine Pollard & Jonathan Eisen (UC Davis) 2003-2009 Graduate Student Researcher Department of Microbiology, University of California, Berkeley Mentors: John Taylor & Sandrine Dudoit 2005 Bioinformatics Research Intern The Broad Institute Mentor: James Galagan 2002-2003 Research Assistant Department of Zoology, Oregon State University 2001 Research Assistant International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK HONORS & AWARDS 2013 Gladstone Scientific Leadership Award 2007 Dean’s Council Student Research Representative 2007 Effectiveness in Teaching Award, UC Berkeley 2006-2008 Chang-Lin Tien Graduate Research Fellowship 2002 Student Leadership Fellowship 2002 HHMI Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2002-2003 Dr. Donald MacDonald Excellence in Science Scholarship 2002 OSU College of Science's Excellence in Science Scholarship 1999-2003 Provost Scholarship 1999 American Legion Student Ethics Award

PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles 17. O’Dwyer JP, Kembel SW, Sharpton TJ (In Review) Backbones of Evolutionary History

Test Biodiversity Theory for Microbes 16. Quandt AC, Kohler A, Hesse C, Sharpton TJ, Martin F, Spatafora JW. (In Print)

Metagenomic sequence of Elaphomyces granulatus from sporocarp tissue reveals Ascomycota ectomycorrhizal fingerprints of genome expansion and a Proteobacteria rich microbiome. Environmental Microbiology.

15. Skewes-Cox P, Sharpton TJ, Pollard KS, DeRisi JL. (2014) Profile hidden Markov models for the detection of viruses within metagenomic sequence data. PLOS ONE 9(8): e105067.

14. Kent M, Soderlund K, Thomann E, Schreck CB, Sharpton TJ. (2014) Post-mortem sporulation of Ceratomyxa Shasta (Myxozoa) after dealth in adult Chinook salmon. Journal of Parasitology. Published online April 11, 2014. [PMCID – In progress].

13. Sharpton TJ^. (2014) An Introduction to the Analysis of Shotgun Metagenomic Data Frontiers in Plant Genetics and Genomics. 5(209) PMCID: PMC4059276.

12. Kidd JM*, Sharpton TJ*, Norman PJ, Carpenter M, Sikora M, Gignoux CR, Gorgani NN, Agilent Technologies, Pollard KS, Parham P, Feldman MW, Wall J, Bustamante CD, Henn BM. (2014) Exome Capture from Saliva Produces High Quality Genomic and Metagenomic Data. BMC Genomics. 15(262). PMCID: PMC4051168

11. Finucane M, Sharpton TJ, Laurant T, Pollard KS (2014) A taxonomic signature of obesity in the microbiome? Getting to the guts of the matter PLOS ONE. 9(1): e84689. PMCID: PMC3885756

10. Ladau J, Sharpton TJ, Jospin G, Kembel SW, O'Dwyer JP, Koeppel A, Green JL, Pollard KS. (2013) Global marine bacterial diversity peaks at high latitudes in winter. International Society of Microbial Ecology Journal. Published online March 21, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.37. PMCID: PMC3749493

9. Sharpton TJ*^, Jospin G*, Wu D, Langille MG, Pollard KS, Eisen JA (2012). Sifting through genomes with iterative-sequence clustering produces a large, phylogenetically diverse protein-family resource, BMC Bioinformatics, 13(1): 264. PMCID: PMC3481395

8. Whiston E, Wise HZ, Jui G, Sharpton TJ, Cole GT, Taylor JW. (2012) “Comparative Transcriptomics of the Saprobic and Parasitic Growth Phases in Coccidioides spp.” PLOS ONE. 7(7): e41034. PMCID: PMC3401177

7. Wylie KM, Truty RM, Sharpton TJ, Mihindukulasuriya KA, Zhou Y, Gao H, Sodergren E, Weinstock GM, Pollard KS (2012). Novel bacterial taxa in the human microbiome, PLOS ONE, 7(6): e3529. PMCID: PMC3374617

6. The Human Microbiome Project Consortium (2012) A Framework for Human Microbiome Research, Nature, 486: 215–221. PMCID: PMC3377744

5. The Human Microbiome Project Consortium (2012). Structure, function and diversity of the human microbiome in an adult reference population, Nature, 486: 207-214. PMCID: PMC3564958

4. Sharpton TJ^, Riesenfeld SJ, Kembel SW, Ladau J, O'Dwyer JP, Green JL, Eisen JA, Pollard KS (2011). PhylOTU: a high-throughput procedure quantifies microbial community diversity and resolves novel taxa from metagenomic data, PLOS Computational Biology, 7(1): e1001061. PMCID: PMC3024254

3. Neafsey DE, Barker BM, Sharpton TJ, Stajich JE, Park D, Whiston E, Hung C, McMahan C, White J, Sykes S, Heiman D, Young S, Zeng Q, Abouelleil A, Aftuck L, Bessette D, Brown A, FitzGerald M, Lui A, Macdonald JP, Priest M, Orbach MJ, Galgiani JN, Kirkland TN, Cole GT, Birren BW, Henn MR, Taylor JW, Rounsley SD. (2010) Population Genomic Sequencing of Coccidioides Fungi Reveals Recent Hybridation and Transposon Control, Genome Research, 20: 938–946. PMCID: PMC2892095

2. Sharpton TJ^, Stajich JE, Rounsley SD, Gardner MJ, Wortman JR, Jordar VS, Maiti R, Kodira CD, Neafsey DE, Zeng Q, Hung C, McMahan C, Muszewksa A, Grynberg M, Mandel MA, Kellner EM, Barker BM, Galgiani JN, Orbach MJ, Kirkland TN, Cole GT, Henn MR, Birren BW, Taylor JW. (2009) Comparative Genomic Analyses of the Human Fungal Pathogens Coccidioides and their Relatives, Genome Research, 19: 1722–1731. PMCID: PMC2765278

1. Sharpton TJ^, Neafsey DE, Galagan JE, and Taylor JW. (2008) Mechanisms of Intron Gain and Loss in Cryptococcus, Genome Biology, 9(1): R24. PMCID: PMC2395259

*Indicates co-first author ^Indicates corresponding author

Other Publications

Sharpton TJ, Jhaveri AA. (2006) Leveraging the Knowledge of Our Peers: Online Communities Hold the Promise to Enhace Scientific Research. PLOS Biology, 4(6): e199.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP & SERVICE ACADEMIC SERVICE

2014- Committee Member. Microbiology Graduate Admissions, OSU 2014- Committee Member. (Under)graduate Bioinformatics Curriculum Task

Force, OSU 2014- Subcommittee Co-Chair. Graduate Bioinformatics Curriculum Task Force,

OSU 2014- Review Editor. Frontiers in Systems Microbiology 2013-2014 Committee Member. Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing

Spring Colloquium Steering Committee, OSU 2013- Biological Consultant. Informal advisor for statisticians, OSU 2013- Statistical Consultant. Informal advisor for microbiologists, OSU 2010- Member. The Human Microbiome Project Consortium 2009- Journal Referee. Science, PLoS Computational Biology, BMC Genomics,

Molecular Ecology, FEMS Microbial Ecology, Microbiome, Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE

2010 Advisor. UCSF Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program Review 2007 President. Plant and Microbial Graduate Group, UC Berkeley 2007 President. Microbiology Student Group, UC Berkeley 2006 Chair. Microbiology Student Symposium, UC Berkeley 2006-2008 Webmaster. Microbiology Student Group, UC Berkeley 2005 Reviewer. Joint Genome Institute’s IUMS Genome Browser Review TEACHING AND TRAINING Academic Courses

2014 Introduction to Quantitative Genomics. ST599 Course Developer and Instructor (Fall Quarter)

2014 Molecular Host-Microbe Interactions. MCB637 Guest Lecture – “The Human Gut Microbiome” (5/30)

2014 Microbial Bioinformatics and Genome Evolution. OSU MB668 Course Developer and Lead Instructor. (Spring Quarter)

2014 Neuroendrocrine Regulation of Energy Metabolism. OSU NUTR 599/699 Guest Lecture – “The Human Gut Microbiome” (4/14)

2014 Nucleic Acid Bioinformatics. OSU BB499/599 CS419/519 Guest Lecture – “Inferring functional elements from conservation” (2/17) 2013 Microbial Systems. OSU MB511

Guest Lecture - “Mapping the Diversity of Marine Bacteria” (11/25) 2013 Microbiomes and Host-Microbiome Interactions. OSU HC407 Guest Lecture - “The Human Gut Microbiome” (11/12) 2007 Comparative Genomics Seminar UC Berkeley PMB290

Course Organizer 2006 The Diversity of Fungi. UC Berkeley PMB110 Graduate Student Assistant Instructor 2004 Introduction to Biology. UC Berkeley BIO1B Graduate Student Assistant Instructor 2003 Cell and Molecular Biology. OSU BI314 Undergraduate Student Assistant Instructor

ADVISING

2014- Melissa Conley, PhD Co-Advisor, Nutrition 2014 Martin Guyer. MS Co-Advisor, Statistics 2014- Nicole Kirchoff, PhD Advisor, Microbiology 2014- Christopher Gaulke, Postdoctoral Fellow, Microbiology 2014- Kyle Duyck, Undergraduate Researcher, Biochemistry/Biophysics

2014- Holman Jue, Undergraduate Researcher, Microbiology 2014- Sean McNall, Undergraduate Researcher, Microbiology 2014 Courtney Armour, Rotation Student, MCB

MENTORSHIP: INFORMAL

2013 Dr. Mariel Finucane – The obesity-associated gut microbiome 2013 Timothy Laurent – Ascertaining protein family quality and function 2012 Rachel Radnor – Computational analysis of marine microbial diversity 2012 Guillaume Jospin – Iterative clustering to identify novel proteins 2012 Stephen Nayfach – Assessing microbial functional diversity estimations 2011 Peter Skews-Cox – Building Viral HMMs for metagenomic data analysis 2011 Aram Avila-Herrera – Identification of CRISPRs in metagenomic data 2010 Dr. Rebecca Truty – Quantifying novel human microbiota

THESIS/DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER AND SERVICE

2014- Trevor Tivey, Dept. Integrative Biology, PhD Committee Member

2014- Kimberly Kenny, Honors Thesis Committee Member

2014 Krista Soderlund, Honors Thesis Committee Member 2014 Martin Guyer, Dept. Statistics, MS Committee Member 2014- Edward Davis, Dept. Botany & Plant Pathology, PhD Committee Member 2014- Kevin Vergin, Dept. Microbiology, PhD Committee Member 2013- Melissa Conley. Dept. Nutrition, PhD Committee Member 2013-2014 Robbie Eberhard-Garah. BRR Honors Student Committee Member

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE vFams (http://derisilab.ucsf.edu/software/price/vFam) Protein family database for the metagenomic identification of viruses

Shotmap (https://github.com/sharpton/shotmap) Distributed computing workflow to classify metagenomic data into protein families SFams Database (http://edhar.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/sifting_families/) Diverse protein family database that rapidly incorporates new genomic data

PhylOTU (https://github.com/sharpton/PhylOTU) Identifies metagenomic OTUs using a phylogenetic approach

ModAlign (https://github.com/sharpton/modalign) An HMM-based multiple sequence aligner

Bio::SearchIO::HMMER3 (https://github.com/kblin/bioperl-hmmer3) BioPerl module that transforms HMMER result files into a BioPerl SearchIO object

GRANTS

Active

NIH R21 AI108953-01A1 (Co-I) Longitudinal and functional dynamics of autoimmune gut microbiomes Contact PI: Pollard Submitted: 11/2013 Collaborators: Katherine Pollard, Shomyseh Sanjabi Requested Amount: $525,250 Subcontract Request: $49,609 Department: Microbiology College: Ag. Science Person Months: 2 Location of Project: J. David Gladstone Institutes (Subcontract to OSU) Pending Dates: 10/2014-09/2016

Completed

Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation 3300 (Co-PI) The Environmental Niche Atlas: Global Mapping of Microbial Functions Contact PI: Pollard Submitted 8/2011 Collaborators: Katherine Pollard, Jonathan Eisen Total Award Amount: $1,510,227 Subcontract Amount: $25,484 Department: Microbiology College: Science Active Dates: 11/01/2013 – 10/31/2014 Person-Months Per Year Committed to Project: 2 Location of Project: J. David Gladstone Institutes (Subcontract to OSU)

Submitted

W.M. Keck Foundation Research Program (Co-PI) W.M. Keck Foundation Whitepaper: Developing Next-Generation High-Throughput Culturing Technology to Identify the Mechanisms Underlying Microbial Interaction Networks Contact PI: Giovannoni Submitted: 8/2014 – Internal Review Collaborators: S. Giovannoni Department: Microbiology College: Science Requested Amount: $1,893,098 Person Months: 1 Location of Project: Oregon State University Status: Phase I application submitted

Sloan Foundation Early Career Award (PI)

Analyzing inter-protein relationships to infer molecular, evolutionary, and ecological functions Contact PI: Sharpton Submitted: 2/2014 Collaborators: None

NIH P01 (Core Co-Leader) CAM Center for Mechanistic Evaluation of Vitamin D and Xanthohumol Contact PI: Stevens Submitted: 9/2013 Collaborators: Fred Stevens, Cathy Abney, Joe Beckman, Paul Blakemore, Gerd Bobe, Jaewoo Choi, Adrian Gombart, Arup Indra, Yuan Jiang, LeeCole Legette, Malcolm Lowry, Claudia Maier, Barbara McVica, Cristobal Miranda, , Andrey Morgun, Ralph Reed, Natalia Shulzhenko, Brett Tyler Requested Amount: 9,160,816 Status: Resubmitted

DOD MURI (Co-PI) Building a predictive understanding of skin bacterial community ecology, body odor, and mosquito attractiveness Contact PI: Fierer Submitted: 12/2013 Collaborators: Noah Fierer, Brendan Bohannan, Detlev Helmig, James O’Dwyer, Leslie Vosshall Requested Amount: $5,296,466 Subcontract Request: $290,621 Status: Rejected

NIH R01 (Co-I) Gut microbiota mediate the interplay between immunity and glucose metabolism Contact PI: Shulzhenko Submitted: 2/2014 Collaborators: Natalia Shulzhenko, Andrey Morgun, Aleksandra Sikora Department: Microbiology College: Science Requested Amount: $1,825,000 Subaward Amount: $144,905 Department: Microbiology Person Months: 1 Location of Project: Oregon State University Pending Dates: 09/01/2014-08/31/2019 Status: Resubmitted

NSF DOB (Co-PI) National Science Foundation The Elaphomyces microbiome – a model for the ecological evolution of fungal-bacterial interactions

Contact PI: Spatafora Submitted: 4/2014 Collaborators: Joey Spatafora, Mike Castellano, Jeff Chang, Francis Martin Department: Microbiology College: Science Requested Amount: $2,000,000 Subcontract Amount: $500,000 Person Months: 0.5 Location of Project: Oregon State University Pending Dates: 10/2014-9/2019 Status: Rejected

Preproposals/Whitepapers

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation DDD (PI) Analyzing inter-protein relationships to infer molecular, evolutionary, and ecological functions Contact PI: Sharpton Submitted: 2/2014 Collaborators: None

USDA AFRI (Co-PI) Diet and microbiome interactions during age-related inflammation Contact PI: Ho Submitted: 2/2014 Collaborators: Emily Ho, Kathy Magnusson

NSF DEB – Systematics and Biodiversity (Co-PI) A metagenomic and culture-based analysis of bacterial diversity in the gut microbiome of a model marine mollusk Contact PI: King Submitted: 1/2014 Collaborators: Gary King, Cameron Thrash

NSF DEB – Evolutionary Processes (Co-PI) Mechanisms that produce pan-genome diversity in globally abundant bacteria Contact PI: Giovannoni Submitted: 1/2014 Collaborators: Stephen Giovannoni

US ARMY ONRBAA13-022 (Co-PI) Modes of Evolution in Genome Streamlining: The Role of Enzyme Promiscuity in Microbial Survival Contact PI: Giovannoni Submitted: 10/2013 Collaborators: Stephen Giovannoni, Patrick Deleenheer, Trent Northen

All amounts listed are total costs

PRESENTATIONS INVITED TALKS 11/2014 Metagenomic Investigations of the Human Microbiome Biology Department Seminar Series, Willamette University, Salem, OR 10/2014 High-Throughput Prediction of Microbiome Physiology International Symposium on Gut Microbiology, Nanjing, China 5/2014 Data Mining the Microbiome Department of Statistics Seminar. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 5/2014 Metagenomic Investigations of the Human Microbiome Department of Nutrition Seminar. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 5/2014 From Noise to Signal: Mining Human Exome Sequences Reveals the Hunter-Gatherer Oral Microbiome Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing Spring Colloquium. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. 12/2013 Metagenomic Investigations of the Microbiome

META Center Seminar. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. 10/2012 Understanding the Human Microbiome through Metagenomic Analysis CGRB Seminar Series, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. 6/2012 Identifying novel bacteria in the human microbiome

American Society of Microbiology General Meeting. San Francisco, CA. 5/2012 Characterizing oral microbiome diversity using exome captured sequences

from saliva Stanford Symposium on the Biology of Hunter-Gatherers. Palo Alto, CA.

5/2012 Your Microbiome: What is it and why does it matter? Gladstone Institutes Science for Administration. San Francisco, CA.

10/2011 Mining the Metagenome: Computational approaches quantify the diversity of microbial communities San Francisco State University Dept. of Biology. San Francisco, CA.

12/2010 Characterizing microbial diversity from metagenomic data UCSF Evolution Club. San Francisco, CA.

11/2010 Characterizing microbial diversity from metagenomic data UC Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Seminar. Berkeley, CA.

6/2010 Characterizing microbial diversity from metagenomic data Banfield Lab Meeting. UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

3/2009 Evolutionary genomics identifies proteins important to the interaction between Coccidioides and its host Fungal Genetics Conference. Asilomar, CA.

6/2008 The comparative genomics of Coccidioides and the rise of virulence American Society for Microbiology General Meeting. Boston MA.

11/2007 The comparative genomics of Coccidioides. UCB College of Life Sciences Dean’s Advisory Meeting. Berkeley, CA.

4/2007 What makes a pathogenic fungus? A comparative genomics investigation of Coccidioides evolution. UC Berkeley Microbiology Student Symposium. Berkeley, CA.

5/2002 The effect of light intensity on Sym 32 expression in Anthopleura elegantissima.

HHMI Student Symposium. Corvallis, OR.

SOLICITED 9/2014 High-throughput annotation of metagenomes reveals community

physiological variation in the mammalian microbiome (Poster) Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Meeting, Lake Arrowhead, CA 8/2014 High-throughput annotation of metagenomes reveals community

physiological variation in the mammalian microbiome (Talk) META Center Symposium on Host-Microbe Systems Biology, Eugene, OR 5/2012 Characterizing the diversity of the human microbiome to understand

disease (Poster) Gladstone Institutes Scientific Retreat. San Francisco, CA.

3/2012 Quantifying human microbiome functional variation using Operational Protein Families (Poster) International Human Microbiome Consortium. Paris, France.

2/2012 Characterizing the diversity of the human microbiome to understand disease (Poster) Gladstone Scientific Advisory Board Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

10/2011 Novel methods to quantify human microbiome diversity (Talk) Mission Bay RIPS. UCSF, San Francisco, CA.

8/2010 PhylOTU: A high-throughput procedure that identifies Operational Taxonomic Units from metagenomic data (Poster) International Society for Microbial Ecology Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA.

6/2010 Resolving the Hidden Biosphere: A high-throughput procedure that identifies OTUs from metagenomic data (Talk) Evolution. Portland, OR.

5/2010 Characterizing microbial diversity from metagenomic data (Talk) GICD Research in Progress Seminar Series. San Francisco, CA.

4/2010 Using Metagenomics to Study Uncultured Microbes: Who is out there, where do they live, and what are they doing? (Poster) Gladstone Institutes Annual Retreat. San Francisco, CA.

11/2008 Comparative evolutionary genomics of the pathogenic fungus Coccidioides (Talk) UC Berkeley DE Computational and Genomic Biology Retreat. Berkeley, CA.

3/2008 The comparative genomics of Neurospora (Talk) Neurospora. Asilomar, CA.

3/2007 What makes a pathogenic fungus? (Poster) Bay Area Meeting on Pathogenesis. University of California, San Francisco, CA.

3/2007 What makes a pathogenic fungus? (Poster) Fungal Genetics Meeting. Asilomar, CA.

3/2006 The evolution of spliceosomal introns in Cryptococcus neoformans (Poster) Bay Area Meeting on Pathogenesis. University of California, San Francisco, CA

Charlotte Wickham8th January, 2015

Assistant ProfessorDepartment of StatisticsOregon State UniversityOR 97331, USA+1 541 737 [email protected]

A EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT INFORMATIONA1 EducationPh.D. (Statistics) University of California, Berkeley2011

B.Sc. (Statistics) First Class Honors, University of Auckland.2004

A2 EmploymentAssistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University2011 -

B TEACHING, ADVISING AND OTHER ASSIGNMENTSB1 Instructional SummaryCredit courses

Course Term Enrollment SET Q2 Dept. avg GTAMedian same level supervision

ST512 (4) Methods of Data Analysis II W15 120 YesST552 (4) Statistical Methods II W15 25 YesST511 (4) Methods of Data Analysis I F14 180 5.4 5.5 YesST599 (3) Stat. Computing & Big Data S14 25 5.7 5 NoST565 (3) Time series W14 35 5.8 5.3 YesST412/512 (4) Methods of Data Analysis II W14 120 5.4 5.3 YesST411/511 (4) Methods of Data Analysis I F13 160 5.2 5.2 YesST412/512 (4) Methods of Data Analysis II W13 100 5.2 5.3 YesST411/511 (4) Methods of Data Analysis I W13 90 5.0 5.3 YesST411/511 (4) Methods of Data Analysis I F12 160 4.9 5.2 YesST565 (3) Time series & Spatial Statistics S12 40 4.7 5.5 YesST411/511 (4) Methods of Data Analysis I W12 80 5.6 5.2 Yes

Non-Credit Courses and Workshops

Instructor Introduction to R A four hour short course for College of Agricultural Sciences taught jointly2014

with Alix Gitelman, Oregon State University, Sep 2014.

Teaching Assistant R development masterclass A two-day short course on advanced R programming of-2013

fered by RStudio. San Francisco, Dec 2013.

Teaching Assistant R development masterclass A two-day short course on advanced R programming2011

sponsored by Revolution Analytics. San Francisco, Jun 2011, New York, Dec 2011.

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Teaching Assistant Looking at Data A two-day short course on data manipulation and visualization in R.2009

University of Missouri, Saint Louis, Oct 2009.

Joint Instructor Stat bootcamp One week incoming statistics graduate student bootcamp. Department of2006

Statistics, University of California, Berkeley. Summer, 2006.


Developed a two course summer program in Data Exploration and Visualization with Shawn O'Neil (OSU2014

CGRB) taught for the first time in Summer, 2014.

Statistics department curriculum committee2011-

Graduate and Undergraduate Students and Postdoctoral Trainees

Major Professor

Chris Comiskey, PhD Statistics Co-advising with Alix Gitelman2017

Chunxiao Wang, MS Statistics2015

Faraz Niyaghi, MS Industrial Engineering Minor Advisor (2013), MS Statistics Advisor (2015)

Heather Kitada, MS Statistics2014

Jaret Keniston, MS Statistics

Minor Professor

Ali Moghaddam, MS Construction Engineering and Management2014

Adam Korejwa, MS Ecological Engineering

Deepak Rayamajhi, PhD Civil Engineering

Kelly Kerr, MS Forest Ecosystems and Society

Catarina Pestana, MS Civil and Construction engineering

Gordon Akudibillah, PhD Environmental Science

Viswanath Parameshwaran Kashi, MS Industrial Engineering

Juliana Mbuthia, MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Lacey Jeroue, MS Forest Engineering and Resource Management

Sean Cummings, MS Applied Economics

Johannie Spaan, PhD Zoology

Ganesh Ummadi, PhD Chemistry

Faisal Alfayez PhD Engineering

Youjie Yan, MEng Computer science2013

Daniel Lebowitz, MS Mathematics

Andres Cardenas, MPH Biostatistics2012

Jamila Hunt, MPH Biostatistics

Committee Member

Gisselle Yang Xie, MS Statistics2014

Eric Gunnink, MS Statistics

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Jose T. Montero, MS Geography

Ben Armstrong, MS Statistics

Kyle Dettloff, MS Statistics

Rosalinda Gonzalez, MS Fisheries

Luna Sun, PhD Statistics

Nadia Bathaee, MS Industrial Engineering

Elise Korejwa MS Statistics2013

Qian Wu, MS Statistics

Malcolm Itter MS Statistics

Team or Collaborative Efforts

Developed and taught, ST599: Statistical Computing and Big Data, with Alix Gitelman (OSU), Spring2014. The class revolved around three group big data analyses projects and armed students with the toolsand confidence to attack big data and work effectively in a data science team.

C SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE ACTIVITYC1 PublicationsRefereed research papers

Emerson, S., C.Wickham, and K. Ruzicka (2014). Rethinking the linear regression model for spatial ecological data:2014

Comment. Ecology Accepted.

Muller, R. A., J. Curry, D. Groom, R. Jacobsen, S. Perlmutter, R. Rohde, A. Rosenfeld, C.Wickham, and J. Wurtele2013

(2013). Decadal variations in the global atmospheric land temperatures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Rohde, R., R. Muller, R. Jacobsen, S. Perlmutter, A. Rosenfeld, J. Wurtele, J. Curry, C.Wickham, and S. Mosher (2013).2013

Berkeley Earth Temperature Averaging Process. Geoinfor Geostat: An Overview 1(2).Wickham, C, R Rohde, R. Muller, J Wurtele, J Curry, D Groom, R Jacobsen, S Perlmutter, A Rosenfeld, and M. S2013

(2013). Influence of Urban Heating on the Global Temperature Land Average using Rural Sites Identified fromMODIS Classifications. Geoinfor Geostat: An Overview 1(2).

Rohde, R., R. Muller, R. Jacobsen, E. Muller, S. Perlmutter, A. Rosenfeld, J. Wurtele, D. Groom, and C.Wickham2012

(2012). A New Estimate of the Average Earth Surface Land Temperature Spanning 1753 to 2011. Geoinfor Geostat:An Overview 1(1).

Wickham, H., H. Hofmann, C.Wickham, and D. Cook (2012). Glyph-maps for visually exploring temporal patterns in2012

climate data and models. Environmetrics 23(5), 382–393.

Wickham, C. (2011). A Tale of Two Airports: Exploring Flight Traffic at SFO and OAK. Journal of Computational and2011

Graphical Statistics 20(2), 291–293.

In preparation

Fuentes, C., C.Wickham, and S. Emerson. Teaching the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test: Demonstrating Hypothesis Test Perfor-mance Criteria.

Lee, H. E., P. A. Beedlow, R. S. Waschmann, D. T. Tingey, and C.Wickham. An analysis of climate and disease influ-encing annual growth of Douglas-fir in western Oregon forests.

Wickham, C., B. S. Stewart, and D. R. Brillinger. Modelling whale shark movement.

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Conference posters

Wickham, C., J. A. Curry, D. Groom, B. Jacobsen, R. A. Muller, S. Perlmutter, R. A. Rohde, and A. R. J. Wurtele (2011).2011

A Study of Temperature Trends Using Rural Sites Identified from MODIS Classifications. American Geophysical UnionMeetings, San Francisco.

Wickham, C. (2009). A Tale of Two Airports: An exploration Flight Traffic at OAK and SFO. Joint Statistical Meetings,2009

Washington DC.

Wickham, C. (2007). A Stroll Along the Beach. UserR!, Ames IA.2007

Thesis

Wickham, C. (2011). ``Whither the whale shark wanders: Tools and methods for modelling whale shark movement''.PhD thesis. University of California, Berkeley.

C2 Professional Meetings and PresentationsInvited Talks

Wickham, C. (2013). An introduction to plyr. R Group at EPA, Corvallis OR.2013

Wickham, C. (2012). Modelling trajectories with stochastic differential equations driven by a potential function. Mathematical Biology2012

Seminar, Oregon State University.

Wickham, C. (2011). A statistician, a politician and a grandma walk into a bar: explaining the evidence that the earth is getting hotter.2011

Department of Statistics Seminar, University of Auckland.

Wickham, C. (2008). Modeling Whale Shark Movement. Society of Women Geographers, Bay Area Group Meeting.2008

Contributed Talks

Wickham, C. (2014). The Mann-Kendall Test and Adjustments/Alternatives Under Complex Residual Assumptions and Small2014

Sample Sizes. Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston.Wickham, C., C. Fuentes, and A. Gitelman (2013). Evaluating the performance of trend detecting tests in hydrological data. The2013

International Environmetrics Society Conference, Anchorage, AK.Wickham, C. (2008). Modeling Trajectories with an Application in Eye Tracking. Berkeley Statistics Student Seminar.2008

Wickham, C. (2007). An Exploratory Stroll Along the Beach. Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, UT.2007

Workshops

Invited participant, Next generation climate data products, NCAR, July 2013.2013

Funded participant, Ten Lectures on Statistical Climatology, University of Washington, Seattle funded by the2012

NSF. August 2012.

C3 Grant and contract supportNSF-CMMI1435695, Collaborative Research: Salt Water Intrusion's Effect on Levee System Stability dur-2014

ing Extreme Events (PI: H. Benjamin Mason, Civil & Construction Engineering OSU, Co-PI: CharlotteWickham) Unfunded $314,602

D SERVICED1 University Service

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Department

COSINE advisory group2014-

Full Professor Search Committee, Department of Statistics2014-

Senior Professor Search Committee, Department of Statistics2012

Curriculum Committee, Department of Statistics2011-

College

University

Marine Sciences Initiative Learning Modes Working Group2014

D2 Service to the ProfessionReviewer for R Journal2014

Organizing committee Statistics 2013 - Oregon2013

Reviewer for Infovis2013

Reviewer for Environmetrics, the R Journal, and Technology Innovations in Statistics Education.2011

Reviewer for the Journal of Statistical Software2010

D3 Service to the Public (professionally related)None to report

E AWARDSE1 National and International AwardsThird place in the Data Expo 2009, JSM2009

Third place in R programming competition, UseR! Ames, IA2007

E2 State and Regional AwardsSociety of Women Geographers Fellow2008

E3 University and Community AwardsEvelyn Fix Memorial Prize2010

Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award2008

University of Auckland Honours Scholarship2004

University of Auckland Annual Prize in Statistics2004

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Lan XUE

Department of Statistics Phone: (517)737-1982Oregon State University Fax: (517)737-3489Corvallis, OR 97331 Email: [email protected]

Education

• Ph.D. Statistics, 2005, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

• B. S. Statistics, 2000, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China

Employment

Sep 2011–Present Associate ProfessorDept. of Statistics, Oregon State University

Sep. 2012–Jan. 2013 Visiting ProfessorSchool of Mathematical Science, Soochow University, China

Sep 2011–Present Adjunct Associate ProfessorDept. of Public Health, Oregon State University

Sep 2005–Aug 2011 Assistant ProfessorDept. of Statistics, Oregon State University

Feb 2010–Aug 2011 Adjunct Assistant ProfessorDept. of Public Health, Oregon State University

Sep 2000–July 2005 Graduate AssistantDept. of Statistics & Probability, Michigan State University

Research Interests

• Nonparametric and semiparametric modeling

• Variable selection for high-dimensional data

• Nonlinear time series analysis

• Survival analysis

• Analysis of longitudinal data

Awards and Grants

• Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians, Award 272556, Modelselection in high dimensional semiparametric models, 2013-2018.

• Sole P.I. of National Science Foundation DMS award 0906739, Robust Frontier andBoundary Estimation: Theory and Application, July 2009-June 2012.

• Elected member, International Statistical Institute, 2007

• Travel award from Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006

• Laha Travel Award from Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2005

• Student Award and Travel Fellowship from International Chinese Statistical Associ-ation, 2004

Membership in Professional Societies

• Life Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

• Life Member, International Chinese Statistical Association

• Elected Member, International Statistical Institute

Publications

• Refereed Publications (bold indicates candidate name)

1. Xue, L. and Yang, L. (2006) Estimation of semiparametric additive coefficientmodel.Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136, 365-368.

2. Xue, L., Yang, L. (2006) Additive coefficient modelling via polynomial spline.Statistica Sinica, 16, 1423-1446.

3. Yang, L., Park, B. U., Xue, L. and Hardle, W. (2006) Estimation and testingfor varying coefficients in additive models with marginal integration. Journal ofthe American Statistical Association 101, 1212-1227.

4. Xue, L. (2009) Variable selection in additive models. Statistica Sinica, 19,1281-1296.

5. Luna, J. and Xue, L. (2009) Aggregation behavior of the western spotted cu-cumber bettle. Environ. Entomol. 38, 809-814.

6. Hallett, S., Lorz, H., Atkinson, S., Rasmussen, C., Xue, L., and Bartholomew,J. (2009) Susceptibility of Tubifex Tubifex oligaochaetes to infection by the myx-ozoan parasite Myxobolus cerbralis: an Oregon perspective. Journal of inverte-brate pathology, 102, 57-68.

7. Xue, L. and Liang, H. (2010) Polynomial spline estimation for the generalizedadditive coefficient model. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 37, 26-46.

8. Xue, L. and Wang, J. (2010) Distribution function estimation by constrainedpolynomial spline regression. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 22, 443-457.

9. Xue, L., Wang, L., and Qu, A. (2010) Incorporating correlation for multivariatefailure time data when cluster size is large. Biometrics, 66, 393-404.

10. Rondon, S. and Xue, L. (2010) Practical techniques and accuracy for sexingthe potato tuberworm, Phthorimaea operculella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Fla.Entomol., 93, 113-115.

11. Xue, L. Qu, A and Zhou, J. (2010) Consistent Model Selection for MarginalGeneralized Additive Model for Correlated Data. Journal of the American Sta-tistical Association, 105, 1518-1530.

12. Zielinski, C. M., Lorz, H. V. Hallett, S. L. Xue, L. and Bartholomew, J. L.(2011) Comparative susceptibility of Deschutes River (Oregon, USA) Tubifextubifex populations to Myxobolus cerebralis. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health23, 1-8.

13. Xue, L. and Qu, A. (2012). Variable selection in high-dimensional varying-coefficient models with global optimality. Journal of Machine Learning Re-search, 13, 1973-1998.

14. Jiang, S. and Xue, L. (2013) Lag selection in stochastic additive models. Jour-nal of Nonparametric Statistics, 25, 129-146. (Laha Award paper)

15. Wang, L., Xue, L., Qu, A. and Liang, H. (2014) Estimation and model selectionin generalized additive partial linear models for correlated data with divergingnumber of covariates. Annals of Statistics, Forthcoming.

16. Alexander, J., Sascha, H., Stocking, R., Xue, L. and Bartholomew, J. (2014)Host and parasite populations after a ten year flood: Manayunkia speciosa andCeratomyxa shasta in the Klamath River Northwest Science. Northwest Science,Forthcoming.

• Non-refereed Publications

17. Xue, L., Wang, L., and Yang, L. (2006) Efficient polynomial spline estimationof partially linear models for clustered data. Technical report, MSU Statisticsand Probability, RM 653.

18. Qu, A. and Xue, L. (2009) Discussion of Gaining efficiency via weighted es-timators for multivariate failure time data by J. Fan, et al., Science in China,Series A: Mathematics, V. 52, 1134-1136.

• Submitted

19. Jiang, S. and Xue, L.(2014) Globally consistent model selection in semi-parametricadditive coefficient models.

20. Xue, L., Shu, X., Shi, P., Wu, C. and Qu, A. (2014) Local feature selection invarying-coefficient models.

21. Shu, X., Qu,A. and Xue, L. (2014) Time-varying networks estimation and dy-namic model selection.

Consulting Service

Client Department PositionSpagnoli, Sean Microbiology Postdoc FellowWiman, Nik Horticulture FacultySagili, Ramesh Horticulture FacultyOlyszyk, Dave EPA/Crop and Soil Science FacultyTopitzhofer, Ellen Horticulture Graduate StudentAdams, Paul Forest Engineering FacultyAlexander, Julie Microbiology Research AssociateBartholomew, Jerri Microbiology FacultyBurnett, Margaret Computer Science FacultyCole, Elizabeth Forest Science FacultyDuringer, Jennifer Env. & Molecular Tox. Research AssociateGarrett, Amy Horticulture Graduate StudentHallett, Sascha Microbiology Research AssociateLuna, John Horticulture FacultyMcDonald, Virginia Botany & Plant Path. Research AssociateMClver, James Rangeland Ecol & Mngmnt FacultyNag, Sharmistha Ag. & Resource Economics Graduate StudentRighetti, Tim Horticulture FacultyRondon, Silvia Crop and Soil Science FacultySovern, Stan Fisheries & Wildlife Research associateYamada, Sylvia Zoology FacultyYin, Xinhua Mid-Col. Ag. Res. Ext. Ctr. FacultyZielinski, Chris Microbiology Ph.D. student

Professional Meetings and Presentations

• Professional Meeting Presentations

1. Invited speaker, Local feature selection in varying coefficient models, Joint Sta-tistical Meeting, August 2014.

2. Invited speaker, Local feature selection in varying coefficient models, ICSAChina, June 2014.

3. Invited speaker, Local feature selection in varying coefficient models, ICSA Sym-posium, June 2014.

4. Invited speaker, Variable selection in high dimensional varying coefficient modelswith global optimality. Second Joint Biostatistics Symposium, Beijing, China.2012

5. Contributed speaker, Consistent Model Selection for Marginal Generalized Ad-ditive Model for Correlated Data. WNAR Annual Meeting, San Luis Obispo,2011.

6. Invited speaker, Consistent Model Selection for Marginal Generalized AdditiveModel for Correlated Data. Joint Statistical Meetings, British Columbia, 2010.

7. Invited speaker, Consistent Model Selection for Marginal Generalized AdditiveModel for Correlated Data. ICSA applied statistics symposium, Indianapolis,2010.

8. Invited speaker, Incorporating correlation for multivariate failure time data whencluster size is large. ICSA applied statistics symposium, San Francisco, 2009.

9. Contributed speaker, Polynomial spline estimation for the generalized additivecoefficient model. WNAR Annual Meeting, Portland, 2009.

10. Contributed speaker, Variable selection in additive models. IMS Asia PacificRim Meetings, Seoul, South Korea 2009.

11. Invited speaker, Polynomial spline estimation for the generalized additive coeffi-cient model. International Conference on Financial Statistics and Econometrics,Chengdu, China 2009.

12. Contributed speaker, Variable selection in additive models. IMS China Interna-tional Conference on Statistics and Probability, Weihai, China 2009.

13. Invited speaker Variable selection in additive models. The Fall Meeting of theOregon Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Portland 2009

14. Contributed speaker, Efficient polynomial spline estimation of partially linearmodels for clustered data. Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, 2006.

15. Contributed speaker, Efficient polynomial spline estimation of partially linearmodels for clustered data. New Researchers’ Conference, University of Washing-ton, Seattle, 2006.

16. Invited speaker, Additive coefficient modeling. Joint Statistical Meetings, Min-neapolis, 2005.

17. Invited speaker, Additive coefficient modelling via polynomial spline. The 6thICSA International Conference, Singapore, 2004.

18. Contributed speaker, Estimation of semiparametric additive coefficient model.ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, San Diego, 2004

• University Seminars

19. Local Feature Selection in Varying Coefficient Models, Oregon State University,April 2013

20. Consistent Model Selection for Marginal Generalized Additive Model for Corre-lated Data, Soochow University, Nov. 2012

21. Consistent Model Selection for Stochastic Additive Models, University of Scienceand Technology of China, Nov. 2012

22. Consistent Model Selection for Stochastic Additive Models, Soochow University,Sep. 2012

23. Consistent Model Selection for Marginal Generalized Additive Model for Corre-lated Data, Oregon State University, January 2011

24. Incorporating correlation for multivariate failure time data when cluster size islarge, Portland State University, April 2010

25. Variable selection in additive models, University of Georgia, March 2010

26. Variable selection in additive models, Georgia State University, March 2010

27. Incorporating correlation for multivariate failure time data when cluster size islarge, Oregon State University, Dec. 2009

28. Variable selection in additive models, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Sep. 2009

29. Variable selection in additive models, University of Illinois at Chicago, Sep. 2009

30. Variable selection in additive models, Oregon State University, Oct. 2008

31. Additive coefficient modeling, Oregon State University, Feb. 2005

32. Additive coefficient modeling, Auburn University, Feb. 2005

33. Additive coefficient modeling, South Methodist University, Feb. 2005

34. Additive coefficient modeling, Bowling Green State University, Feb. 2005

35. Additive coefficient modeling, Eastern Michigan University, Feb. 2005

Grant and Contract Support

• Simons Foundation 272556,Model selection in high dimensional semiparametric mod-els. Sep. 2013-Aug. 2018, $35,000. Role: Principal Investigator.

• NSF DMS 0906739, Robust Frontier and Boundary Estimation: Theory and Appli-cation, July 2009-June 2012, $32,895. Role: Principal Investigator.

• U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Oregon Youth Development Project,Sep. 2009- Sep. 2014, $10,214. Role: Statistician.

Services

• Statistics Department Committees

Comprehensive Exam Committee Chair 2013-2014Faculty Search Committee Chair 2013-2014Curriculum Committee 2013-2014Comprehensive Exam Committee 2010-2012Consulting coordinator 2008-2012Faculty Search Committee 2009-2010Graduate Committee 2005-2011Seminar organizer 2007, 2011, 2013Faculty mentor 2011-Present

• Journal Referee Services

Biometrics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Agricultural,Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Associa-tion, Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, Journal of Statistical Planning andInference, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Journal of Machine Learning Re-search,Statistica Sinica, Statistics and Probability Letters, The Annals of Statistics,Test

• Other Professional Services

Associate Editor of Sankhya Series B 2012-presentOrganizer of workshop on Nonparametric Estimation and Functional data 2014

NSF proposal review panel 2014Program Committee, Joint Applied Statistics Symposium of ICSA and KISS 2014Program Committee, 2015 Joint Statistics Meeting 2014Invited Session Organizer and Chair, Joint Applied Statistics Symposium of ICSAand KISS 2014Invited Session Organizer and Chair, Joint Statistical Meeting 2014Book Chapter reviewer for Chapman & Hall/CRC 2013Session Chair, Annual WNAR meeting 2009Proposal reviewer for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong 2008, 2010Book chapter reviewer for Mathematical Statistics with Applications, by Wackerly,Mendenhall, Scheaffer 2007

Student Advising

• Department of Statistics Students Supervised:

Jeffrey Zheng (Ph.D.) 2014-currentJames Addison (Ph.D., Joint with Ginny Lesser) 2013-currentKai Li (Ph.D., Joint with Yuan Jiang) 2014-currentJie Hu (Ph.D.) 2013-currentLu Wang (Ph.D.) 2012-currentSonghoa Choi(M.S.) 2013-currentGarth Hansen(M.S.) 2013-currentVanessa Lepe(M.S.) 2013-currentXiang Lin (M.S.) 2012-currentShuping Jiang(Ph.D.) 2010-2013Jeffery Leirness(MS) 2009-2011Lu Wang(M.S.) 2011-2013Lili Peng(M.S.) 2009-2011Shuping Jiang(M.S.) 2008-2010Minggang Cui(M.S.) 2007-2009Xiaochun Liu(M.S.) 2006-2008Yang Xu(M.S.) 2006-2008

• Guidance of Other OSU students:

Statistics: Shubhomoy Das(M.S.) 2011-2013, Yang Fang(Ph.D.) 2007-2012, Xian-long Wang(Ph.D.), 2005-2009, Hui Nian(M.S.), 2007-2010, Yun Fang(M.S),2007-2009, Jinna Liu(M.S.), 2006-2008, Kyle Bradford(M.S.), 2006-2008, Devang Pa-tel(M.S.), 2006-2008, Yang(Susanna) Xu(M.S.), 2006-2008, Peng Wang(M.S.), 2005-2007, Xuan Che(M.S.), 2005-2007.

Other Departments: Ellen Topitzhofer, M.S. in Horticulture, 2012-current, Ying, Xu,MBA, 2013-current, Li Cheng, Ph.D. in Agric. Resource Econ., 2009-2012, ArachchiAppuhamillage, Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2010-2013, Pongdate Montagantirud, Ph.D.in Mathematics, 2010-2013, Daowsud Katthaleeya, Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2010-2013, Robert Ray, Ph.D. in Fisheries and Wildlife,2010-2013, Shan Xue, Ph.D. inComputer Science, 2011-2013, Guomei Wang, Ph.D. in Crop Science, 2008-2011,David Haim, Ph.D. in Applied Economics, 2008-2011, Meng, Li, M.S. in Civil En-gineering, 2009-2011, Fei Xu, M.S. in Civil Engineering, 2009-2011, Man Li, Ph.D.

in Agric. & Resource Econ., 2008-2010, Adam Kennedy Ph.D. Environmental Sci-ence, 2008-2010, Xiang Li, M.S. Civil Engineering, 2007-2009 , Lijuan Wang, M.S.in Industrial Engineering, 2006-2008, Wei Xu, M.S. in Civil Engineering, 2006-2008,Yong Zhang, Ph.D. Molec. & Cellular Biology, 2005-2007, Ladd Irvine, M.S. in Ma-rine Mammal program, 2005-2007, Mingxin Li, M.S. in Civil Engineering, 2005-2007,Sam Miotke, M.S. in Mathematics, 2005-2006, Haixia Lin, Ph.D., Agric. & ResourceEcon., 2005-2006, Anton Piskunov, M.S. in Economics, 2005-2008,

Justin Wolford 5465 Red Leaf Dr S, Salem, OR 97306 (503)9397847 [email protected]

___________________________________________________________________________ Education: MS 2012, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Computer Science Human Computer Interaction , 3.94 GPA B.A. 2006, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR Communications Relevant Classwork: Programming Languages, Functional Programming, Usability Engineering, Research Methods in Usability, Algorithms & Data Structures, Cognition, Case Study Research in Software Engineering Experience:

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Instructor, September 2012 Present Databases, Web Development, Mobile and Cloud Development ∙Facilitate online class discussion, prepare assignments and crate rubrics for grading assignments ∙Produce new lecture material for online classes including video recordings, written material and code examples ∙Write and test software tools to enhance student learning and the overall student experience Teaching Assistant, January 2010 – April 2012 Operating Systems, Usability Design, Computer graphics, Translators ∙Assisted professors in all aspects of teaching including guest lecturing, writing and grading assignments and holding office hours for student help Summer Instructor, June 2011 – September 2011 ∙Instructed 37 students in the implementation and use of data structures ∙Planned course curriculum and wrote and evaluated student assignments Research Assistant, June 2011 – April 2012 ∙Plan, run and analyze data from a user study examining new input devices for interactive TV ∙Coordinate the study with a small team that includes technical and nontechnical roles CAMP Tutor, April 2009 – August 2009 ∙Tutored seasonal migrant and farm workers in trigonometry, differential and integral calculus. ∙Helped students who were not familiar with the challenges of working and attending school create plans for academic success Garmin AT, Salem, OR April 2012 September 2012 ∙Write embedded C code for avionics ∙Write detailed requirements specifying desired software behavior ∙Work as a member of a large team to plan, implement and test complex software systems

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Las Cruces, NM Database Administrator I, June 2010 – January 2012 ∙Research options and technologies that meet product goals ∙Create detailed proposals of how specific features could meet client needs

Website Development Intern, August 2009 – December 2009 ∙Implemented user feedback throughout the design process to create intuitive and efficient interfaces Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus Physics Tutor September, 2008 – December, 2008 City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, Portland, OR Mapping Services Intern July, 2008 – December, 2008

Chrome Systems Inc., Portland, OR Content Developer July, 2007 – July, 2008 ∙Worked within a team of 48 content developers to construct automotive databases ∙Tested other developers’ work to find errors and improve product quality The Reserve Golf Course and Vineyards, Beaverton, OR Player Services January, 2007 – July, 2007

Publications: Cox, D., Wolford, J., Jensen, C., & Beardsley, D. (2012, October). An evaluation of game controllers and tablets as controllers for interactive TV applications. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction (pp. 181188). ACM. Wolford, J. (2012). User interface design considerations for emerging input technologies in iTV.

Awards: Vice Provost's Award for Innovation in Online Creditbased Teaching '14 OSU Honor Roll, Winter '09, Spring '09, Summer '09, Winter '10, Spring '10

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Weng-Keen Wong Work Address: 1148 Kelley Engineering Center School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Office: 541-737-4544 Fax: 541-737-1300 URL: http://www.engr.orst.edu/~wong/ Email: [email protected] RESEARCH INTERESTS Data mining, machine learning, anomaly detection, human-in-the-loop learning, Ecosystem Informatics CURRENT POSITION Sep 2011 Associate Professor - Present School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oregon State University Sep 2005 Assistant Professor - Sep 2011 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oregon State University EDUCATION Feb 2004 Postdoctoral Associate in the Realtime Outbreak and Disease Surveillance Lab, - Jun 2005 University of Pittsburgh.

Advisor: Greg Cooper Jan 2004 Ph.D., School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Advisor: Andrew Moore

Thesis: Data Mining for Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks Committee: Scott Fahlman (Carnegie Mellon University)

Jeff Schneider (Carnegie Mellon University) Gregory Cooper (University of Pittsburgh) Michael Wagner (University of Pittsburgh)

Dec 2001 M.Sc., School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University May 1997 B.Sc. with Co-operative Education Option, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia RESEARCH EXPERIENCE


Feb 04 - Jun 05 Postdoctoral Associate, Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance Lab, University of Pittsburgh

Bayesian modeling for biosurveillance project. Developed Bayesian algorithms for detecting disease outbreaks in spatio-temporal data.

Aug 98 - Feb 04 Graduate Student, AUTON Lab, Carnegie Mellon University May 00 - Aug 00 Summer Intern, Information Economies Project, IBM TJ Watson Investigated bidding strategies for continuous double auctions. May 99 - Aug 99 Summer Intern, Schenley Park Research Designed and implemented scheduling algorithms for manufacturing. Sep 95 - Dec 95 Research Assistant, Educational Games in Math and Science (EGEMS), University of British Columbia (Co-op Placement) Developed mathematical puzzles for "Phoenix Quest", an educational adventure game which employs natural language processing to simulate conversations. May 95 - Aug 95 NSERC Summer Intern, Laboratory for Computational Intelligence,

University of British Columbia (Co-op Placement) Designed and implemented an autonomous web search agent. WORK EXPERIENCE Nov 10 - present Consultant, Webtrends Provided consulting services regarding machine learning research Sep 97 - Aug 98 Software Developer, Paradigm Development Corporation Developed document conversion components for Adobe PageMaker 6.5 Apr 97 - May 97 Contractor, Motion Works Implemented puzzles in the Anastasia computer game. Jan 96 - Apr 97 Part-Time Research Assistant, EGEMS Group at UBC Assisted in EGEMS studies, developed educational software and provided technical support to the classrooms involved. May 96 - Aug 96 Software Developer, Electronic Arts (Co-op Placement) Created front end screens for NBA Live 97 for PC. Sep 95 - Apr 96 Part-Time Consultant, UBC Computer Science Department Maintained and enhanced software written in Tcl/Tk for courses in Computer Science. Jan 94 - Aug 94 Programmer, SHL Systemhouse Inc. (Co-op Placement)


Programmer on the Ministry of Attorney General project. Added features to British Columbia’s Jury Assignment System and to the Accounts Receivable and Collections System. FUNDING NSF A Human Computational Approach for Improving Data Quality in

Citizen Science Projects, with C. Gomes, S. Kelling and C. Lagoze. Role: PI IIS-1209714, $174,635.00 (07/01/12-06/30/2015) NSF CDI Type I: Novel machine learning methods for predicting species

distribution in response to climate change, with M. Betts and J. Jones. Role: PI.

ARC-0941748, $609,505 (10/1/09-10/1/12) NSF Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a

Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society, with H. J. Albers, T. Dietterich, C. Montgomery, Role: Co-PI CCF-0832804, $1,858,209, (7/15/08-7/14/13)

NSF End-user Debugging of Machine-Learned Programs, with M. Burnett, T. Dietterich, S. Stumpf, Role: Co-PI IIS-0803487, $890,112, (11/01/08-10/31/11)

NSF II-EN: A compute cluster and software tools for Monte-Carlo methods in artificial intelligence, with T. Dietterich, A. Fern, P. Tadepalli, and K. Tumer, Role: Co-PI

CNS-0832804, $888,880, (07/01/2010-07/01/2013) NIH Longitudinal validity of accelerometry in youth, with S. Trost and K.

Pfeiffer, Role: Co-PI. 5R01HD055400-06, $447,350, (07/01/11-04/30/13) NIH Improving Modeling by Learning from Details of High Accuracy

Protein Structures, with A. Karplus, Role: Consultant/Collaborator R01GM083136-05, $1,234,322, (08/01/12-07/31/2017) NIH Empirical Conformation Dependent Covalent Geometry Variation in

Proteins, with P. A. Karplus, Role: Consultant/Collaborator R01GM083136-01A1, $925,502, (08/01/08-07/31/12) DARPA Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (Phase II), sub-contract from

Leidos, with T. Dietterich and A. Fern. $760,000, (06/01/13 - 05/31/15) DARPA Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales, sub-contract from SAIC, with T.

Dietterich and A. Fern. $979,607, (07/01/11-06/30/13) DARPA Generalized Integrated Learning, sub-contract from Lockheed Martin,

with T. Dietterich and P. Tadepalli $1,651,108, (05/15/06-05/15/10)

Intel Automated Enterprise Alert Management, Role: PI $56,000, (06/08-06/09)

Intel Automated Enterprise Alert Management, Role: PI $50,063, (06/07-06/08)


PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles [Trost et al. 2014] Trost, S., Zheng, Y. and Wong, W-K. (2014). Machine learning for activity recognition: Hip versus wrist data. Physiological Measurement, 35(11):2183-2189. [Illan et al. 2014] Illan, J. G., Thomas, C. D., Jones, J. A., Wong, W-K, Shirley, S. and Betts, M. G. Precipitation and winter temperature predict long-term range-scale abundance changes in Western North American birds. Global Change Biology, 20(11): 3351-3364.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12642/abstract

[Groce et al. 2014] Groce, A., Kulesza, T., Zhang, C., Shamasunder, S., Burnett, M., Wong, W-K., Stumpf, S., Das, S., Shinsel, A., Bice, F., and McIntosh, K. You are the only possible oracle: Effective test selection for end users of interactive machine learning systems. (2014). IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 40(3): 307-323. [Sullivan et al. 2014] Sullivan, B. L., Aycrigg, J. L, Barry, J. H., Bonney, R. E., Bruns, N., Cooper, C. B., Damoulas, T., Dhondt, A. A., Dietterich, T., Farnsworth, A., Fink, D., Fitzpatrick, J. W., Fredericks, T., Gerbracht, J., Gomes, C., Hochachka, W. M., Iliff, M. J., Lagoze, C., La Sorte, F. A., Merrifield, M., Morris, W., Phillips, T. B., Reynolds, M., Rodewald, A. D., Rosenberg, K. V., Trautmann, N. M., Wiggins, A., Winkler, D. W., Wong, W-K., Wood, C. L., Yu, J. and Kelling, S. (2014). The eBird enterprise: An integrated approach to development and application of citizen science. Biological Conservation, 169: 31-40.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320713003820 [Das et al. 2013] Das, S., Moore, T., Wong, W-K., Stumpf, S., Oberst, I., McIntosh, K. and Burnett, M. (2013). End-user feature labeling: Supervised and semi-supervised approaches based on locally-weighted logistic regression. Artificial Intelligence, 204:56-74.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370213000830 [Zhang et al. 2012] Zhang, X., Shrestha, B., Yoon, S.W., Kambhampati, S., DiBona, P., Guo, J., McFarlane, D., Hofmann, M. O., Whitebread, K. R., Appling, D. S., Whitaker, E. T., Trewhitt, E., Ding, L., Michaelis, J., McGuinness, D. L., Hendler, J. A., Doppa, J. R., Parker, C., Dietterich, T. G., Tadepalli, P., Wong, W-K., Green, D. T., Rebguns, A., Spears, D. F., Kuter, U., Levine, G., DeJong, G., MacTavish, R., Ontanon, S., Radhakrishnan, J., Ram, A., Mostafa, H., Zafar, H., Zhang, C., Corkill, D. D., Lesser, V. R., Song, Z. An Ensemble Architecture for Learning Complex Problem-Solving Techniques from Demonstration. (2012). ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 3(4): 75:1-75:38. [Trost et al. 2012] Trost, S., Wong, W-K., Pfeiffer, K. A., Zheng, Y. (2012). Artificial Neural Networks to Predict Activity Type and Energy Expenditure in Youth. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 44(9), 1801-1809.


[Hollingsworth et al. 2012] Hollingsworth, S., Lewis, M. C., Berkholz, D. S., Wong, W-K., and Karplus, A. (2012) (,)2 motifs: a purely conformation-based, fine-grained enumeration of protein parts at the two-residue level. (2012). Journal of Molecular Biology, 416: 78-93.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002228361101326X [Hochachka et al. 2011] Hochachka, W. M., Fink, D., Hutchinson, R. A., Sheldon, D., Wong, W-K., and Kelling, S. (2011). Data-intensive science applied to broad-scale citizen science. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 27(2): 130-137.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534711003296 [Kulesza et al. 2011] Kulesza, T., Stumpf, S., Wong, W-K., Burnett, M., Perona, S., Ko, A., and Oberst, I. Why-Oriented End-User Debugging of Naive Bayes Text Classification, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 1(1), (to appear). [Bryant et al. 2010a] Bryant, D. W., Fox, S. E., Rowley, E. R., Priest, H. D., Shen., R., Wong W.-K., and Mockler, T. C. (2010). Discovery of SNP Markers in Expressed Genes of Hazelnut. ISHS Acta Horticulturae, 859, 289-294.

http://www.actahort.org/books/859/859_33.htm [Bryant et al. 2010b] Bryant, D. W. Jr, Shen, R., Priest, H. D., Wong W-K., Mockler, T. C. (2010). Supersplat -- Spliced RNA-seq Alignment. Bioinformatics. 2010.

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/btq206v1 [Filichkin et al. 2009] Filichkin, S., Priest, H. D., Given, S. A., Shen, Rongkun, Bryant, D. W., Fox, S. E., Wong, W-K., and Mockler, T. C. (2009). Genome-wide mapping of alternative splicing in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genome Research.

http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2009/10/26/gr.093302.109.full.pdf+html [Stumpf et al. 2009] Stumpf, S., Rajaram, V., Li, L., Wong, W-K., Burnett, M., Dietterich, T., Sullivan, E., and Herlocker, J. (2009). Interacting Meaningfully with Machine Learning Systems: Three Experiments. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67(8), 639-662.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/IJHCS2009.pdf [Burrows et al. 2009] Burrows, E. H., Wong, W-K., Fern, X., Chaplen, F. W. R., Ely, R. L. (2009). Optimization of pH and Nitrogen for Enhanced Hydrogen Production by Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 via Statistical and Machine Learning Methods, Biotechnology Progress, 25(4), 1009-1017. [Bryant et al. 2009] Bryant, D. W. Jr, Wong, W-K., Mockler, T. C. (2009). QSRA - a quality-value guided de novo short read assembler. BMC Bioinformatics, 10:69, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-69.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2105-10-69.pdf [Kaufman et al. 2007] Kaufman, Z., Wong W-K., Peled-Leviatan, T., Cohen, E., Lavy, C., Aharonowitz, G. Dichtiar, R., Bromberg, M., Havkin, O., Kokia, E., Green, M. (2007). Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System Using the WSARE Algorithm for Early Detection of an Unusual, Localized Summer Outbreak of Influenza B: Implications for Bioterrorism Surveillance. Israel Medical Association Journal, 9:3-7.


[Rolka et al. 2007] Rolka, H., Burkom, H., Cooper, G. F., Kulldorff, M., Madigan, D., and Wong, W-K. (2007). Issues in applied statistics for public health bioterrorism surveillance using multiple data streams: research needs. Statistics in Medicine, Vol 26, Number 8, p1834-1856. [Wong et al. 2005] Wong, W.-K., Moore, A., Cooper, G. and Wagner, M. (2005). What's Strange About Recent Events (WSARE): An Algorithm for the Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6, 1961-1998.

http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume6/wong05a/wong05a.pdf Note: Extended version of (Wong et al. 2002b) and (Wong et al. 2003b)

[Wong et al. 2003] Wong, W-K., Moore, A., Cooper, G., and Wagner, M. (2003). What's Strange About Recent Events. Journal of Urban Health, Volume 80, Issue 2, Supplement 1, i66-i75. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/wsare.juh.2003 Note: Shorter version of (Wong et al. 2002b) Refereed Conference Articles [Goins et al. 2014] Goins, A. K., Carpenter, R., Wong, W-K. and Balasubramanian, R. (2014). Evaluating the Efficacy of Grasp Metrics for Utilization in a Gaussian Process-Based Grasp Predictor. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (pp. 3353-3360), IEEE. [Yu et al. 2014a] Yu, J., Hutchinson, R. and Wong, W-K. (2014). A Latent Variable Model for Discovering Bird Species Commonly Misidentified by Citizen Scientists. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (pp. 500-507), Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/AAAI2014.MSOD.pdf [Yu et al. 2014b] Clustering Species Accumulation Curves to Identify Skill Levels of Citizen Scientists Participating in the eBird Project. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, (pp. 3017-3023), Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/IAAI2014.SAC.pdf [Yu et al. 2014c] Yu, J., Mohan, S., Putthividhya, D. and Wong, W-K. (2014). Latent Dirichlet Allocation based Diversified Retrieval for E-commerce Search. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Web Search and Data Mining conference, (pp. 463-472), New York, NY: ACM. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/WSDM2014.pdf [Senator et al. 2013] Senator, T. E., Goldberg, H. G., Memory, A., Young, W. T., Rees, B., Pierce, R., Huang, D., Reardon, M., Bader, D. A., Chow, E., Essa, I., Jones, J., Bettadapura, V., Chau, D. H., Zakrzewska, A., Briscoe, E., Mappus IV, R. L, McColl, R., Weiss, L., Dietterich, T. G., Fern, A., Wong, W-K., Das, S., Emmott, A., Irvine, J., Corkill, D., Friedland, L., Gentzel, A. and Jensen, D. Detecting Insider Threats in a Real Corporate Database of Computer Usage Activity. (2013). Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1393-1401. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/KDD2013.pdf


[Kulesza et al. 2013] Kulesza, T., Stumpf, S., Burnett, M., Yang, S., Kwan, I. and Wong, W-K. (2013). Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right? Ways Explanations Impact End Users' Mental Models. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 3-10. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/VLHCC2013.pdf [Zheng et al. 2013] Zheng, Y., Wong, W-K., Guan, X. and Trost, S. (2013). Physical Activity Recognition from Accelerometer Data Using a Multi-Scale Ensemble Method. To appear at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence. [Chen et al. 2013] Chen, Y., Groce, A., Zhang, C., Wong, W-K., Fern, X., Eide, E. and Regehr, J. (2013). Taming Compiler Fuzzers. To appear at the 34th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/pldi13.pdf [Kelling et al. 2013] Kelling, S., Gerbracht, J., Fink, D., Lagoze, C., Wong, W-K., Yu, J., Damoulas, T., Gomes, C. P. (2013). A Human/Computer Learning Network to Improve Biodiversity Conservation and Research. AI Magazine, 34(1):10-20. [Yu et al. 2012] Yu, J., Kelling, S., Gerbracht, J., Wong, W-K. Automated Data Verification in a Large-scale Citizen Science Project: a Case Study. (2012). In the Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Science, 1-8.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/eScience2012.pdf [Kelling et al. 2012] Kelling, S., Gerbact, J., Fink, D., Lagoze, C., Wong, W-K., Yu, J., Damoulas, T., and Gomes, C. (2012). eBird: A Human/Computer Learning Network for Biodiversity Conservation and Research. To Appear in The Twenty-Fourth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/IAAI12.pdf [Curran et al. 2012] Curran, W., Moore, T., Kulesza, T., Wong, W-K., Todorovic, S., Stumpf, S., White, R., and Burnett, M. Towards Recognizing "Cool": Can End Users Help Computer Vision Recognize Subjective Attributes of Objects in Images? (2012). Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, (pp. 285-288), New York, NY: ACM Press.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/IUI2012.pdf [Shinsel et al. 2011] Shinsel, A., Kulesza, T., Burnett, M., Curran, W., Groce, A., Stumpf, S., and Wong, W-K. (2011). Mini-Crowdsourcing End-User Assessment of Intelligent Assistants: A Cost-Benefit Study. To Appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2011. [Wong et al. 2011a] Wong, W-K., Oberst, I., Das, S., Moore, T., Stumpf, S., McIntosh, K., and Burnett, M. (2011). End-User Feature Labeling via Locally Weighted Logistic Regression. To Appear in the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (NECTAR Track).


Note: Shorter version of [Wong et al. 2011b] http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/NECTAR11-cameraready.pdf

[Kulesza et al. 2011] Kulesza, T., Burnett, M., Stumpf, S., Wong, W-K., Das, S. Groce, A., Shinsel, A., Bice, F., and McIntosh, K. (2011). Where Are My Intelligent Assistant's Mistakes? A Systematic Testing Approach, Third International Symposium on End-User Development (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6654), pp. 171-186.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/wysiwyt4ml.cameraready.pdf [Wong et al. 2011b] Wong, W-K., Oberst, I., Das, S., Moore, T., Stumpf, S., McIntosh, K., and Burnett, M. (2011). End-User Feature Labeling: A Locally-Weighted Regression Approach. ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, (pp. 115-124), New York, NY: ACM Press. (Best Paper Nomination)

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/IUI2011.pdf [Yu et al. 2010] Yu, J., Wong, W-K., and Hutchinson, R. (2010). Modeling Experts and Novices in Citizen Science Data for Species Distribution Modeling. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, (pp. 1157-1162), Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/evsn.icdm.sp.pdf [Kulesza et al. 2010] Kulesza, T., Stumpf, S., Burnett, M., Wong, W-K., Riche, Y., Moore, T., Oberst, I., Shinsel, A., and McIntosh, K. Explanatory Debugging: Supporting End-User Debugging of Machine-Learned Programs. (2010). In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2010, (pp. 41-48).

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/VLHCC2010.pdf [Vatturi and Wong 2009] Vatturi, P., and Wong, W-K. (2009). Category Detection using Hierarchical Mean Shift. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (pp. 847-856), New York, NY: ACM Press.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/rsp145-vatturi.pdf [Zhang et al. 2009] Zhang, X., Yoon, S., DiBona, P., Appling, D. S., Ding, L., Doppa, J. R., Green, D., Guo, J. K., Kuter, U., Levine, G., MacTavish, R. L., McFarlane, D., Michaelis, J. R., Mostafa, H., Ontan, S., Parker, C., Radhakrishnan, J., Rebguns, A., Song, Z., Trewhitt, E. B., Zafar, H., Zhang, C., Corkill, D., DeJong, G., Dietterich, T., Kambhampati, S., Lesser, V., McGuinness, D. L., Ram, A., Spears, D., Tadepalli, P., Whitaker, E. T., Wong, W-K., Hendler, J. A., Hofmann, M., Whitebread, K. (2009). An Ensemble Learning and Problem Solving Architecture for Airspace Management. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, (pp. 203-210).

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/IUI2009.pdf [Kulesza et al. 2009] Kulesza, T., Wong, W-K., Stumpf, S., Perona, S., White, R., Burnett., M, Oberst, I., and Ko., A. J. (2009). Fixing the Program My Computer Learned: Barriers for End Users, Barriers for the Machine. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, (pp. 187-196), New York, NY: ACM Press.


[Natarajan et al. 2008] Natarajan, S., Bui, H. H., Tadepalli, P., Kersting, K., and Wong, W.-K. (2008). Logical Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for Modeling User Activities. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, (pp. 192-209), Springer. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/LoHiHMM.ILP.2008.pdf [Shen et al. 2008] Shen, J., Li, L., and Wong, W.-K. (2008). Markov Blanket Feature Selection for Support Vector Machines. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (pp 696-701), Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/markovblanket.AAAI.2008.pdf [Stumpf et al. 2008] Stumpf, S., Sullivan, E., Fitzhenry, E., Oberst, I., Wong, W.-K., Burnett, M. (2008). Integrating Rich User Feedback into Intelligent User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, (pp. 50-59), New York, NY: ACM Press.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/mlfeedback.IUI.2008.pdf [Sabhnani et al. 2005b] Sabhnani, M. R., Neill, D. B., Moore, A. W., Dubrawski, A., and Wong, W.-K. (2005). Efficient analytics for effective monitoring of biomedical security. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Automation. [Wong et al. 2005] Wong, W.-K., Cooper, G., Dash, D., Levander, J., Dowling, J., Hogan, W., and Wagner, M. (2005). Use of multiple data streams to conduct bayesian biologic surveillance. In: Syndromic Surveillance: Reports from a National Conference, 2004. MMWR 2005; 54 (Suppl), 63-69 http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/panda.2005.pdf [Cooper et al. 2004] Cooper, G., Dash, D., Levander, J., Wong, W-K., Hogan, B., and Wagner, M. (2004). Bayesian Biosurveillance of Disease Outbreaks. Proceedings of the Twentieth Conference of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2004) (pp. 94-103). Arlington, VA: AUAI Press. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/panda.2004.pdf [Wong et al. 2003b] Wong, W-K., Moore, A., Cooper, G., and Wagner, M. (2003). Bayesian Network Anomaly Pattern Detection for Disease Outbreaks. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003) (pp. 808-815). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/wsare.2003.pdf [Moore and Wong 2003] Moore, A. and Wong, W-K. (2003). Optimal Reinsertion: A new search operator for accelerated and more accurate Bayesian network structure learning. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003) (pp. 552-559). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/optreinsert.2003.pdf


[Wong et al. 2002b] Wong, W-K., Moore, A., Cooper, G., and Wagner, M. (2002). Rule-based Anomaly Pattern Detection for Detecting Disease Outbreaks. Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2002) (pp. 217-223). AAAI Press. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/wsare.2002.pdf [Wong et al. 2002] Wong, W-K. and Moore, A. (2002). Efficient Algorithms for Non-Parametric Clustering with Clutter. Computing Science and Statistics, 34 (pp. 541-553). Fairfax Station, VA: Interface Foundation of North America, Inc. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/cuevas.2002.pdf [Schneider et al. 1999] Schneider, J., Wong, W-K., Moore, A., and Riedmiller, M. (1999). Distributed Value Functions. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 1999) (pp. 371-378). San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/distributed.1999.pdf Thesis [Wong 2004] Wong, W-K. (2004). Data Mining for Early Disease Outbreak Detection. Doctoral dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/thesis.pdf Abstracts [Unrath et al. 2014] Unrath, M., Zhang, Z., Goins, A., Carpenter, R., Wong, W-K. and Balasubramanian, R. (2014). Using Crowdsourcing to Generate Surrogate Training Data for Robotic Grasp Prediction. In Proceedings of the Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-14). [Stumpf et al. 2012] Stumpf, S., Burnett, M. M., Pipek, V., Wong, W-K. (2012). End-user interactions with intelligent and autonomous systems. CHI Extended Abstracts 2012: 2755-2758. [Shen et al. 2007] Shen, Y., Wong, W.-K., Levander, J., and Cooper, G. F. (2007). An outbreak detection algorithm that efficiently performs complete Bayesian model averaging over all possible spatial distributions of disease. Advances in Disease Surveillance; 4:113. [Adamou et al. 2005] Adamou, C., Cooper, G., Wong, W.-K., Dowling, J., and Hogan, W. (2005). Modeling clinician detection time of a disease outbreak due to inhalational anthrax. Proceedings of the National Conference on Syndromic Surveillance. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/clinician.2005.pdf [Garman et al. 2005] Garman, C., Wong, W.-K., and Cooper, G. (2005). The effect of inferring work location from home location in performing bayesian biosurveillance. Proceedings of the National Conference on Syndromic Surveillance. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/workzip.2005.pdf [Shen et al. 2005] Shen, Y., Wong, W.-K., and Cooper, G. (2005). A generalization of the standard AMOC curve. Proceedings of the National Conference on Syndromic Surveillance. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/generalization.2005.pdf


Unrefereed Conference Papers [Hillier et al. 2008] Hillier, M., Wong, W.-K., Sheehy, S., and Jones, J. A. (2008). Google Earth as a visualization tool for understanding changing patterns of exotic plants along forest roads in western Oregon. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Workshop Papers [Pei et al. 2014] Pei, Y., Christi, A., Fern, X., Groce, A. and Wong, W-K. (2014). Taming a Fuzzer Using Delta Debugging Trails. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Mining, ICDM 2014. [Wiggins et al. 2014] Wiggins, A., Lagoze, C., Wong, W-K. and Kelling, S. (2014). A sensor network approach to managing data quality in citizen science. In Proceedings of the Citizen + X: Workshop on Volunteer-based Crowdsourcing in Science, Public Health and Government, Human Computation 2014. [Yu et al. 2013a] Yu, J., Hutchinson, R. A. and Wong, W-K. (2013). Modeling Misidentifcation of Bird Species by Citizen Scientists. In Proceedings of the NIPS 2013 Machine Learning for Sustainability Workshop. [Yu et al. 2013b] Yu, J., Wong, W-K. and Kelling, S. (2013). Clustering Species Accumulation Curves to Identify Groups of Citizen Scientists with Similar Skill Levels. In Proceedings of the NIPS 2013 Machine Learning for Sustainability Workshop. [Emmott et al. 2013] Emmott, A. F., Das, S., Dietterich, T., Fern, A. and Wong, W-K. (2013). Systematic Construction of Anomaly Detection Benchmarks from Real Data. In Proceedings of the KDD 2013 Workshop on Outlier Detection and Description. [Wiggins et al. 2012] Wiggins, A., Gerbracht, J., Lagoze, C., Yu, J., Wong, W-K. and Kelling, S. (2012). Crowdsourcing citizen science data quality with a human-computer learning network. In Proceedings of the Human Computation for Science and Computational Sustainability Workshop. [Stumpf et al. 2012] Stumpf, S., Wong, W-K., Burnett, M., and Kulesza, T. Making intelligent systems understandable and controllable by end users. (2012). In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Intelligibility and Control in Pervasive Computing. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/pervasive2012.pdf [Kelling et al. 2011] Kelling, S., Yu, J, Gerbracht, J. and Wong, W-K. (2011). The Implementation of Automated Data Verification Proceses in a Large-scale Citizen Science Project. In Proceedings of the IEEE eScience 2011 Computing for Citizen Science Workshop, (pp. 20-27). [Yu et al. 2011] Yu, J., Wong, W-K., Dietterich, T., Jones, J., Betts, M., Frey, S., Shirley, S., Miller, J., and White, M. (2011). Multi-label Classification for Species Distribution Modeling. In Proceedings of the ICML 2011 Workshop on Machine Learning for Global Challenges.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/mlsdm.cameraready.pdf


[Natarajan et al. 2006] Natarajan, S., Wong, W.-K., and Tadepalli, P. (2006). Structure Refinement in First Order Conditional Influence Language. Workshop on Open Problems in Statistical Relational Learning, ICML 2006

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/structurerefinement.2006.pdf

[Wong et al. 2005] Wong, W.-K., Cooper, G., Dash, D., Levander, J., Dowling, J., Hogan, W., and Wagner, M. (2005). Population-wide Anomaly Detection. KDD 2005 Workshop on Data Mining Methods for Anomaly Detection(pp. 79-83) http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~wong/papers/pdf/panda.kdd.2005.pdf Book Chapters [Moore et al. 2006] Moore, A. W., Anderson, B., Das., K., and Wong, W.-K. (2006). Combining Multiple Signals for Biosurveillance. In M. M. Wagner, A. W. Moore and R. A. Aryel (Eds.), Handbook of Biosurveillance, 235-242. New York City, NY: Academic Press. [Wong and Moore 2006] Wong, W.-K. and Moore, A. (2006) Classical Time-Series Methods for Biosurveillance. In M. M. Wagner, A. W. Moore and R. A. Aryel (Eds.), Handbook of Biosurveillance, 217-234. New York City, NY: Academic Press. [Cooper et al. 2006] Cooper, G., Dash, D., Levander, J., Wong, W.-K., Hogan, W., and Wagner, M. (2006). Bayesian Methods for Diagnosing Outbreaks. In M. M. Wagner, A. W. Moore and R. A. Aryel (Eds.), Handbook of Biosurveillance, 273-288. New York City, NY: Academic Press. Note: Extended version of (Wong et al. 2003b) [Wong and Moore 2005] Wong, W-K and Moore, A (2005). Bayesian Network Approaches to Detection. In A. Lawson and K. Kleinman (Eds.), Spatial and Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Note: Extended version of (Wong et al. 2003b) INVITED TALKS Machine Learning for Improving the Quality of Citizen Science Data, PNNL, Richland, WA, June 19, 2014.

Machine Learning for Improving the Quality of Citizen Science Data, Boeing, Seattle, WA, Feb 20, 2014.

End-User Feature Labeling: A Locally-Weighted Regression Approach, University of Oregon, Feb 24, 2011.

Modeling Experts and Novices in Citizen Science Data, Computational Sustainability 2010, June 29, 2010.

Category Detection using Hierarchical Mean Shift. Google Pittsburgh. June 25, 2009.


Giving Dilbert a makeover: Broadening participation in computer science through collaborations in ecology and natural resources, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, April 4, 2009.

End-user Debugging of Machine Learning Systems. Microsoft Research, May 8, 2008.

Detecting Anomalous Patterns in Multivariate Temporal Data, INFORMS, Seattle, WA, Nov 6, 2007

Data Mining for the Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks. Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology Weekly Informatics Conference. Oregon Health Sciences University. April 13, 2006.

A Tutorial on Bayesian Networks. National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2006

What’s Strange About Recent Events. Symposium on Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection. Stanford University, May 22-23, 2004. What's Strange About Recent Events: Detecting and Explaining Significant Emerging Patterns in Data Streams. CALD Research Day, Carnegie Mellon University, Feb 23, 2004. What’s Strange About Recent Events. International Conference on Health Policy Research. Chicago, October 17-19, 2003. What’s Strange About Recent Events (WSARE). DIMACS Tutorial on Statistical and Other Analytic Health Surveillance Methods. Rutgers University, June 17-20, 2003. STUDENT SUPERVISION Thesis Advisor (Current)

Shubhomoy Das (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Xinze Guan (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Travis Moore (M.Sc. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University)

Thesis Advisor (Graduated)

Taj Morton (M. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University) co-advised with Molly Megraw (Botany and Plant Pathology), Nov 2014

Matt Unrath (B.Sc. Honors, Computer Science, Oregon State University), June 2014 Jun Yu (Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Dec 2013 Michael Anderson, (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University), June 2013 Yonglei Zheng (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Sept 2012 Doug Bryant Jr. (Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Aug 2011 Paul Wilkins (M. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Fall 2010 Ian Oberst (M. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Summer 2010 Chris Mills-Price (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Summer 2010


Travis Moore (B.Sc. Honors, Computer Science, Oregon State University), Spring 2010 Pavan Vatturi (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Fall 2008 Dharin Maniar (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Fall 2008 Matt Hillier (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Fall 2007 Justin Silva (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University), Fall 2007

Thesis Committee Member (Current)

Andrew Brereton (Ph.D. candidate, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University) Jose Picado (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Vahid Ghadakchi (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Zahra Iman (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Ahn Pham (Ph.D. candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State

University) Yao Zhao (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Peng Lei (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Shen Cheng (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Behrooz Mahasseni (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Scott Dejmal (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Mandana Hamidi (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Jesse Hostetler (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Arwen Lettkeman (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Liping Liu (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Yuanli Pei (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University) Jervis Pinto (Ph. D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University)

Thesis Committee Member (Graduated)

Todd Kulesza (Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2014) Sarah Frey (Ph.D., Forest Ecosystems and Ecology, Oregon State University, 2014) Janardhan Doppa (Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2014) Forrest Briggs (Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2013) Sicheng Xiong (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2013) Randall Rauwendaal (Ph.D, Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2013) Junyuan Lin (M. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2013) Javed Azimi (Ph.D, Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2012) Saikat Roy (M. Eng, Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2012) Behrouz Behmardi (Ph.D., ECE, Oregon State University, 2012) Joe Selman (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2012) Brian King (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2012) Ethan Dereszynski (Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2012) Rebecca Pankow (B. Sc. Honors, Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2011) Neville Mehta (Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2011) Travis Moore (B.Sc. Honors, Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2010) Liz Burrows (Ph.D., Bio-Engineering, Oregon State University, 2009) Donnie Berkholz (Ph.D., Biophysics and Biochemistry, Oregon State University, 2009)


Jianqiang Shen (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2009) Guohua Hao (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2009) Wei Lin (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2008) Arunkumar Puppula (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2008) Sriraam Natarajan (Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2007) Charlie Parker (Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2007) Ethan Dereszynski (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University) Benjamin Brewster (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2007) Ethan Dereszynski (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2007) Stephanie Deutschman (M. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2007) Chaitanya Komireddy (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2007) Chris Ventura (M.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2007) Daman Oberoi (M. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2006) Robert Rose (M. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2006) Lida Li (M. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2006)

Senior Capstone Project Supervisor

Charles Catino and Catherine Vijay (B.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2012)

Tyler McClung and Kevin McIntosh (B.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2011)

Tim McKeighan and Chris Hill (B. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2010) Walt Woods and Ryan Neill (B. Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2009) Sean Rea (B.Sc., Computer Science, Oregon State University, 2006)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Travis Moore (Summer 2009-Fall 2010) Ryan Neill (Fall 2008-June 2009) Walt Woods (Spring 2006-June 2009) Stephen Perona (Spring 2008-Fall 2008) Paul Strauss (Winter 2007-Fall 2007)

Mentoring as a Postdoctoral Associate Yanna Shen (Ph.D. candidate, University of Pittsburgh) Chris Garman (M.Sc. candidate, University of Pittsburgh) Cristina Adamou (M.Sc. candidate, University of Pittsburgh) Peter Sutovsky (M.Sc. candidate, University of Pittsburgh)

TEACHING Winter 15 CS 536: Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models (Oregon State

University) Fall 14 CS 162: Introduction to Computer Science II (Oregon State University) Spring 14 CS 331: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Oregon State University)


Fall 13 CS 162: Introduction to Computer Science II (Oregon State University) Spring 13 CS 331: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Oregon State University) Fall 12 CS 536: Introduction to Graphical Models (Oregon State University) Spring 12 CS 331: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Oregon State University) Winter 12 CS 162: Introduction to Computer Science II (Oregon State University) Spring 11 CS 331: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Oregon State University) Winter 11 CS 162: Introduction to Computer Science II (Oregon State University) Spring 10 CS 331: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Oregon State University) Winter 10 CS 539: Introduction to Bayesian Networks (Oregon State University) Spring 09 CS 331: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Oregon State University) Fall 08 – Spring 09 CS 519: Ecosystem Informatics (Oregon State University) Winter 09 CS 162: Introduction to Computer Science II (Oregon State University) Spring 08 CS 331: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Oregon State University) Fall 07-Spring 08 CS 519: Ecosystem Informatics (Oregon State University) Fall 07 CS 162: Introduction to Computer Science II (Oregon State University) Spring 07 CS 162: Introduction to Computer Science II (Oregon State University) Spring 07 CS 519: Ecosystem Informatics (Oregon State University) Winter 07 CS 539: Introduction to Bayesian Networks (Oregon State University) Fall 06 CS 430: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Oregon State University) Spring 06 CS 162: Introduction to Computer Science II (Oregon State University) Winter 06 CS 539: Bayesian Network Structure Learning (Oregon State University) Fall 05 CS 430: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Oregon State University) SERVICE (University)

CS Hiring Committee Chair (2014-present) EECS colloquium chair (2011- present) EECS Midtenure Promotion and Tenure Committee (2011) EECS Curriculum Committee (2011) EECS Graduate Committee (2008-2010) EECS Hiring Committee (2007, 2010-2012) EECS Graduate Admissions Committee (2005-present) EECS Instructor Hiring Committee (2013) EECS/CGRB Systems Biology Initiative Hiring committee (2013)

SERVICE (External)

Program Committee: AAAI (2014), SDM (2014,2013), KDD (2015,2011,2007,2006), IJCAI (2009), SIGIR (2008 Workshop on Beyond Binary Relevance: Preferences, Diversity, and Set-Level Judgments), ICML (2006), KDD (2005 Workshop on Data Mining Methods for Anomaly Detection)

Proposal reviewing: NSERC (2010), American Mathematical Society NSA proposals (2007), NSF (2013,2008)

Conference reviewing: AAAI (2013, 2011 NECTAR Track, 2005), CHI (2013), NIPS (2006-2007), Syndromic Surveillance Conference (2006-2007), KDD (2012 Workshop Proposal review)


Journal reviewing: Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Machine Learning, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning Journal, Statistics in Medicine, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Water Resources Research

Workshop organizer: CHI 2012 Workshop on End-User Interactions with Intelligent and Autonomous Systems, ICML 2006 Workshop on Machine Learning Algorithms for Surveillance and Event Detection

Tutorial Presenter: Tutorial on Event Detection at the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Co-chair: Statistical Research Committee for the International Society for Disease Surveillance (2006, 2007)

AAAI (2014-2015) Workshop Co-chair ICML 2007 Student Volunteer coordinator ICML 2007 Local Arrangements committee Guest editor for Machine Learning Journal special issue on Machine Learning Algorithms

for Event Detection

HONORS Deployed Application Award, Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI)

2012 Best Paper Nomination 2011 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postgraduate Award, 1997

(declined because I chose to do my graduate education outside of Canada) Canada Scholarship, 1992-1997 Undergraduate NSERC Research Award, 1995 University of British Columbia Science Scholar Award, 1994-1995

(Given to the top twenty students in the Science faculty in 3rd and 4th year) University of British Columbia Dean's Honor List, 1992-1997 University of British Columbia Computer Science Department Scholarship

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Citizenship: Canadian

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