Olga Vitek

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Education

  • B.S., University of Geneva, Econometrics and Statistics, 1995
  • M.S., University of Geneva, Econometrics and Statistics, 1997
  • M.S., Purdue University, Mathematical Statistics, 2001
  • Ph.D., Purdue University, Statistics, 2005

Research Interests

  • Bayesian analysis
  • Combinatorial Optimization
  • Computational Methods for Statistical Inference
  • Experimental Design
  • Genomics
  • Proteomics
  • Systems Biology

Ph.D. Students from Purdue University Department of Statistics

  • Melissa Key
  • Kwai Yan (Kelvin) Ma
  • Danni Yu
  • Zuoyi Zhang ( Joint with Professor Chuanhai Liu )
  • Cheng Zheng ( Joint with Professor Jun Xie )

Awards/Honors

  • Member, Sigma Xi
  • Prize of the Industrial Services of Geneva for work encouraging rational use of energy, Geneva (Switzerland), 1997
  • Charlie Sampson Best Poster Award, 26th annual Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop, Ball State University, 2003
  • Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University, 2004
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics Laha Travel Award to present at the Joint Statistical Meetings, 2005
  • Teaching for Tomorrow Award, 2008
For more information about Olga Vitek, please visit: http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~ovitek/