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U.S. News Best Graduate School Badge

Department of Statistics Graduate Program Ranks in Top Ten

In the U.S. News & World Reports America's Best Graduate Schools 2009 issue, the Department of Statistics graduate program ranks in the top 10 of graduate programs in Statistics.

Lebanon Granted CAREER Award

Guy LebanonGuy Lebanon
Guy Lebanon, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Department of Computer Sciences (courtesy), was granted the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. The five-year grant was awarded for his proposal titled Multiresolution Representations of Documents which aims at studying new sequential representations for documents and their applications in statistical document modeling and visualization.

Lebanon received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2005. His main research interests are statistical modeling and visualization of high dimensional discrete data such as text documents and ranked data. Additional research interests include privacy preservation in databases and social networks, and the use of non-Euclidean geometry in statistical inference.

Congratulations, Professor Guy Lebanon!

DasGupta Serves as Editor of LNMS and IMS Collections

Anirban DasGupta Anirban DasGupta
Effective January 1, 2008, Professor Anirban DasGupta became the editor of the IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph Series (LNMS) and IMS Collections. DasGupta also currently serves as Associate Editor of the Annals of Statistics, Statistics Surveys, and Metrika. In the past, he has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of American Statistical Association, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, International Statistical Review, and Sankhya.

The LNMS is actively looking for original research monographs on any topic in probability, statistical theory, and the interface with various sciences. Books of problems, preferably with sketches of solutions, are also being solicited. The IMS Collections, a new IMS series, has started producing volumes of selected works of distinguished probabilists and statisticians selected by the editorial board of the Collections series.

Alumni Profile: Patricia Nahas

Patricia NahasPatricia Nahas
M.S. Statistics 1967
Business Systems Specialist: Consultant and Program Manager

Throughout her career, Patricia Nahas has been able to take advantage of the versatility of her abilities as a statistician to meet challenges in a variety of fields.  Nahas has experience across a broad spectrum of work environments, including healthcare, customer service, large and small business, academia, public service, manufacturing, and as a small business owner. Today she is an independent consultant and program manager, specializing in business systems and the application of statistical methodologies to drive information-based decisions for excellence in business and operational results.

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PURE - Purdue University Research Expertise database

PREDThe Purdue University Research Expertise (PURE) database is now online! With this tool, you can search for Purdue faculty members and their research activities by entering relevant keywords, or alternatively you can use a simple navigation mechanism to find them by specifying fields of study.