Alan Qi receives CAREER award

11-30-2010

Assistant Professor Yuan (Alan) Qi is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the Information & Intelligent Systems Division of the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF offers its most prestigious awards through the CAREER program to recognize and support junior faculty's development for a lifetime of leadership in high-quality research and integration of research and education. Alan's award for "Scalable Bayesian learning for multi-source and multi-aspect data" (with the total budget $511,803 from 1/1/2011 to 12/31/2015) will support his research program that is focused on bringing together models and techniques encountered in a variety of areas, such as nonparametric Bayesian statistics, parallel inference, and systems biology, to develop new methodologies and tools for multi-source and multi-aspect data analysis.