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Kristine Bell

Associate Professor of Statistics

Expertise: Statistical signal processing, sensor array processing

Kristine Bell is an associate professor of Statistics in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering. Her research interests are in the areas of robust, adaptive signal-processing techniques and performance bounds for source localization and tracking with applications in radar, sonar, aeroacoustics and satellite communications.

She has held visiting researcher positions at the Naval Research Laboratory and the Army Research Laboratory, working on problems in underwater acoustic communications and tracking aero-acoustic targets using sensor networks. Bell has also worked as a consultant for SAIC, ArgonST and Lockheed Martin.

Bell is currently the vice-chair of the Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. She received her PhD in information technology from George Mason University.

 

Media Contact: Catherine Probst, 703-993-8813, cprobst2@gmu.edu

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Daniel Carr

Professor of Statistics

Expertise: Statistical graphics, visual analytics

Daniel Carr is a professor of Statistics in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering and conducts research in the fields of statistical graphics and visual analytics for use in communication, data exploration, hypothesis generation and model criticism.

His recent National Science Foundation digital government research, titled Quality Graphics for Federal Statistics Summaries, produced and promoted the use of new visualization methodology.

Carr was on a national expert panel that produced the five-year research and development agenda for visual analytics to support major agenda areas in the Department of Homeland Security.  His current research for the Office of Naval Research concerns visualization of networks and graphs with multivariate arcs or edges.

Media Contact: Catherine Probst, 703-993-8813, cprobst2@gmu.edu

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Guoqing Diao

Assistant Professor of Statistics

Expertise: Survival analysis, statistical genetics, statistical analysis with missing data, longitudinal data analysis

Guoqing Diao is an assistant professor of Statistics in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering.

His research interests focus on developing statistical and computational methods to solve scientific problems in public health, genetics and molecular biology.

Diao earned a PhD in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and joined Mason's Department of Statistics in August 2006.

Media Contact: Catherine Probst, 703-993-8813, cprobst2@gmu.edu

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John Miller

Associate Professor of Statistics

Expertise: Document forensics, multivariate methods, biometric identification

John Miller is an associate professor of Statistics in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering.

He can discuss subjects related to basic statistics, probability, mathematical statistics, regression analysis of variance, multivariate statistics and categorical data analysis. Miller's research specialties lie mainly in the linear models area. He is especially interested in bringing new statistical techniques into applied fields.

Miller has published papers in several applied and theoretical journals including the Annals of Statistics, the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, the American Statistician and the Psychological Bulletin.

Media Contact: Catherine Probst, 703-993-8813, cprobst2@gmu.edu

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William Rosenberger

Professor and Chair of Statistics

Expertise: Biopharmaceutical statistics, design and analysis of clinical trials, randomization

William Rosenberger is a professor and chair of Statistics in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering. He is an expert in the statistical design and analysis of randomized clinical trials.

As an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2005, Rosenberger has published more than 50 referred papers and three books including "Randomization in Clinical Trials" which was named the Outstanding Scientific and Professional Title in Mathematics and Statistics by the Association of American Publishers.

Rosenberger received his PhD from the George Washington University.

Media Contact: Catherine Probst, 703-993-8813, cprobst2@gmu.edu

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Liansheng (Larry) Tang

Assistant Professor of Statistics

Expertise: Diagnostic medicine, sequential clinical trials, wavelets spatial modeling

Liansheng Tang is an assistant professor of Statistics in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering.

His research interests include diagnostic medicine, sequential clinical trials and wavelets and bootstrap methodology.

He completed a two-year postdoctoral training in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington and received the 2005 Laha Travel award from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Media Contact: Catherine Probst, 703-993-8813, cprobst2@gmu.edu