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In This Issue:

A Message from the Department Head 3 From the Director of Graduate Studies 5 From the Director of Undergraduate Program 6 Selected Faculty Activities 6 UConn Early College Experience 1 4 Pfizer Colloquium by Distinguished 14 New England Symposium 16 Statistical Challenges in Ecommerce Research 19 Mini Symposium on Bayesian Nonparametrics 19 Spring Cultural Program, 2007 20 Happy Birthday 2 2 Faculty News 23 Colloquia 23 Alumni News 24 Student News 25 Student Achievement Awards 2 6 Recent Ph.D.’s and their Affiliations 2 6 Recent Masters 2 6 Recent Bachelors 2 7 Faculty, Staff and Adjunct Faculty 2 7 Alumni Reply Form 2 8

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-2- A Message from the Department Head

Welcome to the tenth issue of our “Newsletter”. There have been many exciting developments during the past year.

It is a great pleasure to mention that Professors Ming-Hui Chen and Rick Vitale have become Fellows of the Institute of .

I am also extremely happy to mention that Zhiyi Chi and Vladimir Pozdnyakov have received their tenure this year and Vladimir has been promoted to an Associate Professor.

I am happy to inform you that Joseph Glaz and Vladimir Pozdnyakov have received the Wald Prize in . I am also extremely pleased to inform you that we have two new faculty members joining in Fall 2007. Jun Yan is joining us as an Assistant Professor and Jiafeng Sun is joining as an Assistant Professor in Residence. Jun is coming here from Iowa where he spent four years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Jiafeng will be receiving her Ph.D. in from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I will also mention that Professor Yazhen Wang will be visiting NSF as a Program Director in Statistics for the next two years. During the Fall 2007 semester, I will be visiting NISS/SAMSI as a program leader on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory. Joseph Glaz will be the Acting Head of the department during my absence. I am sorry to inform you that after three years of service, Enrique Alvarez decided to go back to his native country, Argentina, to pursue a teaching career there.

The research initiatives and the quality of output of the department continue to soar. We enjoy research funding from a variety of sources including NSF, NIH, AOFSR, ONR and private companies. Several research proposals are currently under review for extramural funding. International and national visibility of the department also continues to grow with our faculty’s participation and visits at conferences and other universities all over the world. This year we have also become University affiliates of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.

The faculty members continue to develop and maintain significant collaborative research programs with colleagues from other departments, universities, and organizations. Within UConn, we maintain strong ties with Civil Engineering, , Ecology and Evolutionary , , Geography, , Molecular and Cell Biology, Nutrition, Pathobiology, , Psychiatry and Natural Resources Management. We are committed to strengthening our interdisciplinary research component. Faculty members and graduate students from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and from Statistics meet regularly to further collaborative research on Statistical Genetics. Faculty from Genetics and Developmental Biology at UCHC, Computer Science, and Statistics meet periodically for collaborative research in . Some faculty

-3- members are also involved with various interdisciplinary programs within the university, including Teachers for New Era, Center for Public Health and Health Policy, Center for Health Communication and Marketing, Center for Internet and Research Intelligence Services, Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering and Center for Health/HIV Intervention and Prevention. Outside UConn, we collaborate with research groups at the American University, University of Binghampton, University of Chicago, Harvard Medical School, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Oregon State University, Penn State University, Princeton University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, Medical University of South Carolina, University of New Orleans, M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington and various intramural groups within NIH. At the international level, we are collaborating with faculty members from the Federal University of Rio di Janeiro, Brazil, Haifa University, Israel, London School of , U.K., Myongji University, South Korea, National University of Singapore, Singapore and RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The internship programs with the UConn Health Center is flourishing and our students continue to enjoy the practical experience we offer them. The UConn Health Center has continued to support our students both from joint research grants as well as from internship programs. We thank Drs. Nick Warren and Martin Cherniack at the Health Center and Rob Aseltine from the Institute of Public Health Research for their continued support during the past year . We are developing more projects through the Center for Applied Statistics (CAS). Currently we are running our internship program through the CAS. The list of clients is quite impressive.

Recently we have developed a scholarship program with St. Paul’s Travelers to support two of our graduate students. I thank Keith Holler, our former Ph.D., who is a liaison from St. Paul’s Traveler to initiate the program.

On the instructional side, the enrollment in our service courses continues to climb, reflecting substantially increased demand for statistical expertise in a multitude of disciplines. The graduate level seminar courses in , statistical consulting, Bioinformatics, longitudinal and clinical trials were also well received. The number and quality of majors in Statistics and Mathematics/Statistics continue to grow. We are working with ACES and other groups towards strengthening our undergraduate major. The Field Study Internship and Undergraduate Research initiatives will aid in our effort. We have established a Minor in Statistics which attracts students from other disciplines, and we continue to foster our High School Coop program to attract students into majors and minors in Statistics.

This year we hosted a mini symposium on Bayesian Nonparametrics on October 7th. This mini symposium was dedicated in honor of Professor J.K. Ghosh from Purdue University and the Indian Statistical Institute.

Professor Emanuel Parzen from Texas A&M University was the 20th Pfizer Colloquium presenter in the Department. The Pfizer Colloquium titled “Objective Bayesian/Frequentist Statistics: My Way with Quantiles”, was professionally videotaped under the auspices of Filming of Distinguished Statisticians for the Archive of the American Statistical Association.

On April 21, 2007 the department hosted the 21st New England Statistics Symposium. About one hundred researchers in and statistics from academic institutions and industry in New

-4- England attended this event. Plenary lectures were presented by Professors Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut and Paul Dupuis, . We received major funding for the symposium from Boehringer Ingelheim, CT and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, N.Y., CLAS Dean’s Office, our Graduate School and Department of Statistics.

The Joint UConn-UMass colloquia have been held every semester for a number of years. In Fall 2006, our own Vladimir Pozdnyakov presented a seminar at UMass. During the Spring 2007 semester, we hosted the seminar and our invited colloquium speaker was John Buonaccorsi from UMass. I am very proud of our accomplishments and would like to thank our faculty, staff, alumni and professional friends for their commitment to the department.

- Dipak K. Dey (Phone: (860) 486-4196, e-mail: [email protected]

From the Director of Graduate Studies

The graduate program continues to flourish. Through a creative mix of funding sources, this year we supported 30 students. We continue to offer a very vibrant and modern set of courses exposing our students to the most exciting and active research areas in the field. The job market in statistics remains excellent. We graduated 8 Ph.D.’s and 7 Masters this year. They are working in academia, pharmaceutical industry, and financial institutes. Some of our current MS students find jobs in the industry several months before graduating.

We recruited eight new students with support. Three of them have MS degrees in mathematics or statistics. They are from University of Calcutta, University of Kentucky at Lexington, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The remaining five students are from Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, Macquarie University in Australia, Tsinghua University in China, Moravian College, and our own department’s MS program. We have also admitted an international scholar supported by the Egyptian government. We are very proud of their accomplishments. Among the students admitted without support, at least five of them have indicated they will join us in the fall. The graduate students form a truly international group. A majority of them are interested in the concentration program. Some of the remaining ones are mostly interested in financial statistics. An updated Graduate Brochure, providing information about the Department and the Graduate Program, and containing application material is available upon request.

- Lynn Kuo (Phone: (860) 486-2951, e-mail: [email protected])

-5- From the Director of Undergraduate Program

We continue to attract a good cohort of able and motivated Statistics and Mathematics-Statistics majors in our undergraduate program, as well as minors. It is interesting that many of our majors are joining us even as Freshmen. Our majors continue to take advantage of offerings such as Field Study Internship, Undergraduate Research, and Undergraduate Seminar I and II to serve the Writing in the Major component.

Many of our undergraduate majors continue to go to graduate school, either at UConn or elsewhere. Since UConn will adopt a new course numbering system effective next year, our department actively worked on a sensible system. In addition, we also worked on s draft for an Undergraduate Assessment plan for our department. Our department continues to be active in the UConn Early College Experience (ECE) Program involving high schools in CT.

-Nalini Ravishanker (Phone: (860)486-4760; e-mail: [email protected])

Selected Faculty Activities

Editorial Boards Nitis Mukhopadhyay is the Editor of Sequential Analysis (2004). He is also an Ming-Hui Chen is Associate Editor of Associate Editor of the Communications in Lifetime Data Analysis, Co-Editor of Statistics, Statistical Methodology and the Sankhya, Associate Editor of Bayesian Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin. Analysis, Associate Editor of Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Nalini Ravishanker is an Associate Editor of Associate Editor of Statistics and It’s The American , the Journal of Forecasting Interface. and the International Journal of Statistics and Systems.. Joseph Glaz is the Editor-in-Chief of Methodology and Computing in Applied Rick Vitale completed his Editorship of the Probability. He is also an Associate Editor of Lecture Notes and Monograph Series of the the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is Applications, and Sequential Analysis. serving on the Editorial Boards of Advances

-6- in Applied Probability and Methodology and Duke University, Durham, NC, September Computing in Applied Probability. 2006, Division of Probability and Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Center, Yazhen Wang is an Associate Editor of Delhi, India, December, 2006, Multivariate st Statistica Sinica and Journal of the American Statistical Methods in the 21 Century Statistical Association. Celebrating the Birth Centenary conference in honor of S. N. Roy, Indian Statistical Selected Invited Institute, Kolkata, India, December, 2006, Seventh Triennial conference in Statistics, Faculty Talks Calcutta University, Kolkata, India, December 2006, International Indian Statistical Ming-Hui Chen was the invited speakers at Association, Joint Statistical Meeting and the 2006 WNAR/IMS Meeting Flagstaff, International Conference, Department of Arizona, June 27-30, 2006; the SCRA Statistics, Cochin University of Science and th 2006/FIM XIII -13 International Conference Technology, Cochin, India, January 2007, of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Graduate School of Business, University of Tomar, Portugal, September 1-4, 2006; the Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February, 2007, 2007 Spring Meeting of the International Brazilian Statistical Association meeting, Biometric Society, Eastern North American Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, February, 2007, Region (ENAR), Atlanta, GA, March 11-13, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2007; Department of Statistics, Texas A&M Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de University, College Station, TX, May 2, 2007; Janeiro, Brazil, March 2007, Department of rd the 3 Workshop on Monte Carlo Methods, Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Cambridge, MA, May 13-14, 2007; FACM Indiana, March, 2007, Department of 2007, Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Indiana State University, Tere Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Haute, Indiana, March 2007, Department of Technology, Newark, NJ, May 14-16, 2007; Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, and the 2006 International Chinese Indiana, March 2007, Department of Statisticians Association Applied Statistics Statistics, Yale University, New Haven, Symposium, Raleigh, NC, June 3-6, 2007. He Connecticut, April 2007, Division of also, jointed with Joseph G. Inbrahim, gave a Mathematics, IBM T. J. Watson Research one day short course on “ Center, New York, April 2007, Department of Methods in Regression Models” at the 2007 Biostatistics, Medical University of South Spring Meeting of the International Biometric Carolina, Charleston, SC, June 2007, at the Society, Eastern North American Region International Chinese Statistical Association (ENAR), Atlanta, GA, March 11-13, 2007. Meeting, Raleigh, NC, June 2007 and National Cancer Institute, NIH, June 2007. Zhiyi Chi was invited to give lectures at , Johns Hopkins Joseph Glaz presented an invited lecture at University, University of Massachusetts at Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle, August Amherst. He also organized and chaired 2006. He also presented an invited lecture at sessions in IWAP 06 and ICSA 06 an international conference in honor of Esther Conference. Samuel-Cahn, University of Jerusalem, December 2006. He received jointly, with Dipak K. Dey presented invited talks at the Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Abraham Wald Prize Institute of Statistics & Decision Sciences, in Sequential Analysis, presented by Taylor

-7- and Francis Publishers at JSM in Seattle, Joseph Glaz, the Abraham Wald Prize in August 2006. Sequential Analysis, presented by Taylor and Francis Publishers at the JSM in Seattle, Ofer Harel presented invited talks at the 13th August 2006. Tel-Aviv University Alzheimer’s Disease Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2006; Nalini Ravishanker will present a talk at the Boston University November 2006; International Symposium of Business and NIH/NICHD Rockville, MD March 2007; the Industrial Statistics at Azores in August 2007. 21st New England Statistics Symposium, Storrs, CT April 2007; and Haifa University, Rick Vitale presented an invited lecture at the Haifa, Israel May 2007. He also presented a Vardi Memorial Conference, Rutgers, October Keynote talk at the 5th annual ASA 2005 and the AMS Section Meeting, Connecticut Chapter Mini-Conference, New University of New Hampshire, April 2006. Haven, CT, March 2007. Yazhen Wang presented invited talks at Lynn Kuo was invited to give a presentation Oberwolfach Workshop on Nonparametric on Bayesian dynamic frailty model for and Semiparametric methods for recurrent events in the topic contributed Econometrics, Oberwolfach, Germany, March session at the Joint Statistical Meetings, 18-24, 2007; The 2007 Taipei International Seattle, 2006. She was also invited to give a Statistical Symposium and ICSA International lecture on Bayesian analysis of EST data at Conference, Taiwan, June 25-28, 2007; Joint the Mini Symposium on Bayesian Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake city, July Nonparametrics in honor of Professor J. K. 29-August 2, 2007. He also gave talks at the Ghosh. departmental colloquia in Yale University, University of Michigan and University of Nitis Mukhopadhyay gave an invited lecture Central Florida. at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in November 2006. Was an invited paper Grants presenter at the Joint Statistical Meetings of the International Indian Statistical Association Ming-Hui Chen is the P.I. on the subcontract that was held in Cochin, India, during January of an NIH R01 grant for 2006-2009, an NIH 2-6, 2007. Delivered a keynote presentation R01 grant for 2005-2008 and another NIH (Sequential Methodologies: Twenty First st R01 grant for 2002-2005. He is the P.I. on a Century) at the 21 New England Statistics grant from the Brigham and Women's Symposium held at the University of Hospital on “Statistical Research for Prostate Connecticut-Storrs on April 21, 2007. Cancer Study”. He receives a UConn Faculty Large Research Grant on “Bayesian Structural Vladimir Pozdnyakov presented a talk at the Equations Modeling with Applications to First International Workshop in Sequential VHA Survey Data”, for 2007. He serves as a Methodologies (IWSM2007) in July 2007 at Statistics Consultant on an NIH SBIR grant Auburn University, Auburn, AL, on robust with the Cytel Software Corporation for nonparametric repeated significance tests for 2003-2007. He also serves as a statistical heavy-tailed distribution. He also presented a consultant in the field of trial design/data talk at the joint UConn-UMass Colloquium in analysis using Bayesian Approach related to October 2007 at the University of drug-eluting stents for Boston Scientific Massachusetts, Amherst, MA on a Markov Corporation, Marlborough, MA, for 2006- switching model. He received jointly, with 2008.

-8- Zhiyi Chi is the co-P.I. on an NIH R01 grant 2010 (David Rowe-Principal Investigator, for 2001-2006. He is also a co-PI of another supported by Connecticut Innovation Inc.) She NIH R01 grant for 2005-2010. Under both received a travel grant from SAMSI to attend grants, he will develop statistical methods for the conference on system biology. neuroscience. He has just received a NSF grant for three years. Cyr M’lan received a Large Faculty Grant from Uconn Research Foundation for his Dipak K. Dey is continuing his National project on "Estimating Global and Gene- Institute of Health grant(with Medical Specific Parameters in an Unbalanced University of South Carolina), on Multifactorial ANOVA model for Microarray “Semiparametric Bayesian Survival Analysis”, Data". National Institute of Health (with D. Grant, School of Pharmacy, UConn),U.S. Nitis Mukhopadhyay received UCRF Travel Department of Defense, entitled, “Storage Grants to partially fund participations at the Efficient for High-Speed Data Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle (August Sreams”, 2003-2007, National Institute of 2006), Joint Statistical Meetings of the Health (with K. Holsinger, Department of International Indian Statistical Association EEB)on "Bayesian Approaches for Analyzing Cochin, India (January 2-6, 2007) Genetic Diversity" and Provosts grant on CIDRIS (with P. Goes, OPIM, School of Vladimir Pozdnyakov received an IMS travel Business). award to attend the IMS New Researchers Conference 2003. Joseph Glaz has been a principal investigator on a grant from Office of Naval Research and Nalini Ravishanker is co-P.I. (with John is a co-principal investigator on a major grant Ivan, Civil and Environmental Engineering) form NIH. on a grant funded by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, effective Ofer Harel received the Faculty Large Grant Spring 2008 for a study on the effect of wet from UCONN Office of the Vice Provost for pavement friction in traffic safety. Research and graduate Education. He is also a biostatistician on the “Detection of intimate Yazhen Wang has been continuously partner violence: Implications for supported as PI by NSF and NSA since 1994. interventions” grant from the Health Services Currently, he is supported by a standard NSF Research and Development, Department of grant on a project “Multiscale Analysis of Veteran Affairs. High- Data” from 2005 to 2008.

Lynn Kuo was a co-investigator of the U24 Outreach research grant for the center of regenerative and skeletal biology. Her two Ming-Hui Chen is the Executive Director of students were supported on this grant to the International Chinese Statistical provide statistics teaching material and Association for 2007-2009. He was a member expertise in the design and analysis of of the Board of Directors, International microarray , and morphological Chinese Statistical Association (elected in studies. She is also a co-investigator of the 2003, serving for 2004-2006). He is also an grant Directing HES Derived Progenitors active Biostatistics reviewer for the Journal of Cells into Musculoskeletal Lineages, 2007- Clinical Oncology. He has been elected to

-9- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Mini Symposium on Bayesian Statistics in 2007. He was elected to Fellow Nonparametrics. of American Statistical Association in 2005. He is an elected member of the International Lynn Kuo is the Treasurer of the International Statistical Institute and a member of the Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Statistics Symposium; 2006 to 2009. She Statistical Association, the International organized a topic contributed session in for Biometric Society (ENAR), the International the joint statistical meetings in August 2006 in Society for Bayesian Analysis, Section on Seattle. She is a core member of the Bayesian Statistics, International Chinese bioinformatics group who meet weekly to Statisticians Association and the Society of develop software for microarray data analysis, the Sigma Xi. genetic pathway, and understanding musculoskeletal lineage. Dipak K. Dey organized a conference with faculty from the School of Business at UConn Nitis Mukhopadhyay is the chair of the on, “Statistical Challenges in e-commerce Committee of Filming Distinguished Research”, at the GE Edgelab, University of Statisticians of the American Statistical Connecticut, Stamford, May 2007. He also Association. Under his project direction, organized a miniconference in the department Professor Emanuel Parzen from Texas A&M on “Bayesian methods in nonparametrics”, University was videotaped on December 1, which was funded by the graduate school. He 2006 at the University of Connecticut under is a member of the Institute of Mathematical this program sponsored by Pfizer Global Statistics’ Fellow selection committee, the Research, American Statistical Association, American Statistical Associations’ Archival and the University of Connecticut. He was a and Historical committee and Chair of the Vice Chairperson for the Sixth Calcutta Section of the Bayesian Statistical Sciences, Triennial Statistics Symposium that was held American Statistical Association. He is also in Calcutta during December 28-30, 2006. In an International Review Committee member this conference, he also organized and chaired for the Research Grant Council of Hongkong an invited paper session on the interface of and the Kuwait Research Foundation. sequential methods and applied probability (dedicated to the memory of Professor Adhir Joseph Glaz served as a reviewer for K. Basu). He is one of two Co-Chairs, the Mathematical Reviews. He is a member of First International Workshop in Sequential Scientific Committee of an International Methodologies (IWSM2007) to be held at Meeting ASMDA 2007, May 2007, Crete, Auburn University, Alabama during July 22- . He is also a co-chair of the 25, 2007. He is also one of two Co-Organizers International Workshop in Applied of a special session on Sequential Probability, IWAP 2008, Technological Methodologies at the 56th ISI Conference University of Compiegne, Compiegne, France, (ISI2007) in Lisboa to be held during August July 7-10, 2008. 22-29, 2007. He has been elected an Ordinary Member of the International Statistical Ofer Harel is a member of the Institute. Planning/Advisory Committee: Pre-doctoral (T32) training program in clinical and Nalini Ravishanker continues to serve as translational research, University of faculty coordinator for Statistics in the UConn Connecticut. Organizing committee for the Early College Experience (previously called

-10- the UConn High School Coop Program). This (With S. Das) 2006. On Bayesian analysis of is a UConn outreach program and now generalized linear models using Jacobian includes several high schools in CT offering techniques. The American Statistician, 60, 3, STAT110. She ran the annual workshop for 264-268. participating high school teachers on May 11, 2007. (With S. Ghosh, D. Grant, D. Hill, B. Luo, N. Petty, R. Melchert) 2006. Statistical approach Rick Vitale is an advisor for the UConn to metabonomic analysis of rat urine Wrestling Club. following surgical trauma. Journal of , 20, 87-98 . Yazhen Wang is a guest professor at Shanghai University of and (With J. Liu) 2007. A quantitative study of Finance. He is a fellow of IMS and ASA and quantile based direct prior elicitation from a permanent member of IMS and ICSA. expert opinion. Bayesian Analysis, 2, 137-166.

Selected Publications Joseph Glaz (with M. Kulldorff, V. Pozdnyakov and M. Steele) 2006. Gambling Ming-Hui Chen (with J.G. Ibrahim and Q.- teams and waiting times for in two- M. Shao) 2006. Posterior propriety and state Markov chains. J. Appl. Probab., 43, no. computation for the Cox regression model 1, 127-140. with applications to missing covariates. Biometrika, 93, 791-807. (With Z. Zhang) 2006. Maximum scan score- type statistics, Statistics & Probability Letters, (With J.G. Ibrahim) 2006. The Relationship 76, 1316-1322. Between the Power Prior and Hierarchical Models. Bayesian Analysis, 1, 551-574. (With V. Pozdnyakov) 2007. A nonparametric sequential test for distributions with heavy (With A.V. D’Amico, M. Loffredo, A.A. tails. Journal of Statistical Planning and Renshaw and B. Loffredo) 2006. Six-month Inference, 137, 869-878. Androgen suppression plus radiation therapy compared with radiation therapy alone for (With Z. Zhang) 2007. Bayesian variable men with prostate cancer and a rapidly window scan statistics, Journal of Statistical increasing pretreatment prostate-specific Planning and Inference, in press. antigen level. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 24(25), 4190-4195. Ofer Harel 2007. Inferences on missing information under multiple imputation and (With S. Kim, D.K. Dey and D. Gamerman) two-stage multiple imputation. Statistical 2007. Bayesian dynamic models for survival Methodology, 4, 75-89. DOI: date with a cure fraction. Lifetime Data 10.1016/j.stamet.2006.03.002. Analysis, 13, 17-35. (With S.M. Hofer, L. Hoffman, N.L. Pedersen Dipak K. Dey (with A. Micheas and K.V. and B. Johansson, B.) 2007. Population Mardia,) 2006. Complex elliptical inference with mortality and attrition in distributions with applications to shape longitudinal studies of Aging: examination of analysis. Journal of Statistical Planning and a two-stage multiple imputation method. Inference, 136, 2961-2982. Experimental Aging Research. 33 (2), 187-

-11- 203. DOI:10.1080/03610730701239004. cell nuclear transfer. Nature Genetics, 2006, V. 38, No. 11, 1323-1328. (With X.H. Zhou) 2007. Multiple imputation for comparing accuracies of two competing Cyr M’lan (with L. Joseph and D.B. screening tests in two-phase studies. Statistics Wolfson) 2006. Bayesian Sample Size in Medicine, 26 (11), 2370-2388. DOI: Determination for Case-Control Studies. J of 10.1002/sim.2715. the American Statistical Association - Theory and Methods, Vol 101, 760-772. (With M.P. Judge and C.J. Lammi-Keefe) 2007. A docosahexaenoic acid-functional food (With M.O. Orlova, K.B. Majorov, I.V. during pregnancy benefits infant visual acuity Lyadova , E.B. Eruslanov, C.M.T. at 4 but not 6 months of age. Lipids, 42(2), Greenwood, E. Schurr and A.S. Apt. 117-122. DOI 10.1007/s11745-006-3007-3. "Constitutive differences in gene expression profiles parallel genetic of Lynn Kuo (with I. Kalajzic, A. Staal, W-P susceptibility to tuberculosis in mice". Yang, Y. Wu, S. E. Johnson, J. H. M. Feyen, Infection and Immunity,74, 6, 3668-3672. W. Krueger, P. Maye, F. Yu, Y. Zhao, R. Gupta, L.E.K. Achenie, H-W Wang, D-G (With P. Hu, C.M.T. Greenwood and J. Shin, and D. W. Rowe) Beyene) 2007. Chromosal clustering of periodically expressed genes in plasmodium 2005. Expression profile of osteoblast lineage falciparum. Chapter 8 of "Methods of at defined stages of differentiation, Journal of Microarray Data Analysis V", edited by Biological , July, V. 280, 24618- Patrick McConnell, Simon Lin, and Patrick 24626. Hurban, Springer, NY.

(With T. Yang) 2006. An improved collapsed Nitis Mukhopadhyay 2006. A conversation Gibbs sampler for mixing with . Statistical Science, 21, models, and Data 404-426. Analysis, V.50, 659-674. (With S. Zacks) 2006. Exact risks of (With C. A. Hermandez-Avila, C. Song, sequential point estimators of the exponential H.Tennen, S. Armeli, and H. R. Kranzler) parameter. Sequential Analysis, Milton Sobel 2006. Targeted vs. daily Naltrexone: Memorial Issue-Part I, 25, 203-226. secondary analysis of effects on average daily drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and 2006. Discussion on “Detection of Intrusions Experimental Research, V. 30, No. 5, 860- in Information Systems by Sequential Change- 865. Point Methods” by Tartakovsky, Rozovskii, Blazek, and Kim. Statistical Methodology, 3, (With L.Y. Sung, S. Gao, H. Shen, H.Yu, Y. 296-298. Song, S. L. Smith, C.C. Chang, K. Inoue, J. Lain, A. Li, X. C. Tian, D. P. Tuck, S. M. 2007. Discussion on “Sequential Design and Weissman, X. Yang, T. Cheng) Estimation in Heteroscedastic ” by Sam Efromovich. Sequential 2006. Differentiated cells are more efficient Analysis, 26, 37-39. than adult stem cells for cloning by somatic Vladimir Pozdnyakov (with J. Glaz) 2005. A Repeated Significance Test for

-12- Distributions with Heavy Tails, Sequential DasGupta, editor). IMS Lecture Notes -- Analysis, 24, 77–98. Monograph Series, 45, 337—341.

(With M. Kulldorff) 2006. Waiting Times for Yazhen Wang 2002. Asymptotic nonequi- Patterns and a Method Of Gambling Teams, valence of GARCH models and diffusions. American Mathematical Monthly, 113, 134- Annals of Statistics, 30, 754-783. 143. (With D.K. Dey) 2004. modeling of (With J. Glaz , M. Kulldorff and J.M. Steele) priors on triangles. Journal of Multivariate 2006. Gambling Teams and Waiting Times Analysis, 89, 338-350. for Patterns in Two-state Markov Chains. Journal of Applied Probability, 43, 127-140. 2006. Selected review on . In Frontier Statistics, Festschrift for Peter (With J. Glaz) 2007. A Nonparametric Bickel(H. Koul and J.Fan, eds.), pp. 163-179. Repeated Significance Test with Adaptive Target Sample Size, Journal of Statistical (With J.M. Clapp) 2006. Defining Planning and Inference, 137, 869-878 neighborhood boundaries: are tracts Nalini Ravishanker (with M. Mallick) 2006. obsolete? Journal of Urban Economics, 59, Additive Positive Stable Frailty Models. 259-284. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 8, 541-558. Published Books

(With R. Venkatesan and V. Kumar) 2007. Ming-Hui Chen (with J.D. Petruccelli and B. Multichannel Shopping – Causes and Nandram) 1999. Applied Statistics for Consequences. Journal of Marketing, 71, 114- Engineers. Text Book, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 132. ISBN 0-13-565953-1.

(With N. Kannan) 2007. High Resolution (With Q.-M. Shao and J.G. Ibrahim) 2000. Estimation of DOA’s in the Linear Array Monte Carlo Methods in Bayesian Model: Gaussian and sub-Gaussian Stable Computation. Springer-Verlag, ISBN Signals. IET , 1, 35-42. 0-387-98935-8.

Rick Vitale (with M. Bonetti) 2000. (With J.G. Ibrahim and D. Sinha) 2001. Asymptotic behavior of a set . Discrete Bayesian Survival Analysis. Springer-Verlag, Computational Geometry, 23, 333-341. ISBN 0-387-95277-2.

(With F. Gao) 2001. Intrinsic volumes of the Dipak K. Dey (with C.R. Rao) 2005. Brownian motion body. Discrete Handbook of Statistics Vol. 25 : Bayesian Computational Geometry, 26, 41-50. Thinking, Modeling and Computation. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam. 2002. Intrinsic volumes and Gaussian processes. Advanced Applied Probability, 33, (With S.K. Upadhyay and U. Singh) 2006. 354-364. Bayesian Statistics and its Application. Proceedings of the International Conference 2004. A question of geometry and probability. on Bayesian Statistics, Varanasi, India. In: A Festschift for Herman Rubin (A.

-13- Joseph Glaz (with R. Baeza-Yates, H. Gzyl, (With Basil M. de Silva) 2004. Proceedings of J. Huesler and J.L. Palacios) 2005. Recent the International Sri Lankan Statistical Advances in Applied Probability. Springer Conference: Visions of Futuristic Science and Business Media, NY. Methodologies. Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Nitis Mukhopadhyay. Probability and and RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, (ISBN #0-8247-0379-0). December 28-30, 2004, ISBN 0 86459 339 2. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, in March, 2000. 2006. Introductory Statistical Inference. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. (With S. Datta and S. Chattopadhyay) 2004. Applications of Sequential Methodologies. Nalini Ravishanker (with D.K. Dey) 2002. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. A First Course in Theory. Chapman Hall, CRC.

UConn Early College Experience

The UConn Early College Experience (previously called the UConn High School Coop Program) is a UConn outreach program and now includes several high schools in CT offering STAT110. An annual workshop for high school teachers participating in the UConn ECE Program in Statistics was conducted by the faculty coordinator Nalini Ravishanker on May 11, 2007. Pfizer Colloquia by Distinguished Statisticians: Films of Professor Emanuel Parzen for the Archive

The Pfizer Global Research and Development, the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut, and the American Statistical Association have continued to jointly sponsor the prestigious series, Pfizer Colloquia by Distinguished Statisticians. Professor Nitis Mukhopadhyay from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, directs this project. Professor Emanuel Parzen from Texas A&M University, College Station, was chosen as the 20th Pfizer Colloquium presenter in the Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs. His colloquium titled “Objective Bayesian/Frequentist Statistics: My Way with Quantiles” (Duration: Approximately 54 minutes) was presented in honor of Dr. David S. Salsburg. The presentation was professionally filmed on December 1, 2006, for the archive of the American Statistical Association.

-14- In this film, Professor Parzen has passionately made the case for a “grand unified theory of statistics” by emphasizing the role of “quantiles” and by considering “analogies within analogies” within statistical principles. He speaks forcefully, “Compute frequentist, but interpret Bayesian. Statistics should enjoy both methods.” In his plea to move forward statistical education based on “united statistics”, Professor Parzen explains eloquently his view that “statisticians should be scientists.” He believes that everyone ought to pay attention to the history of probability and statistics and mentions some of the major influences that shaped his statistical thinking. One will discover the true vintage Manny Parzen captured in this film. From the opening shot to the end, the film will surely keep any viewer engaged. Professor H. Joseph Newton from Texas A&M University, College Station, and Professor Grace Wahba from University of Wisconsin, Madison, were on hand as invited guests. During this memorable occasion, another full segment titled “A Conversation with Emanuel Parzen” (Duration: Approximately 56 minutes) was arranged and this was dedicated to the memory of Late Professor Harry O. Posten. In this film of the conversation piece, Professors Newton, Wahba, and Parzen discuss many facets of Professor Parzen’s life, work, colleagues, and . This film ought to be a ‘must see’ for all statisticians. Both films open with a welcoming note from Professor Mukhopadhyay. Professor Newton has introduced Professor Parzen in both pieces. Heartfelt thanks go to the members of the national committee and the local organizing committee (Professors Ming-Hui Chen, Zhiyi Chi, Dipak K. Dey, and Nitis Mukhopadhyay - Chair). These new films are safely preserved in the archive of the American Statistical Association. Inquiries about how to order the new additions or some of the earlier films in this series should be directed to: Mr. Rick Peterson, Education Programs Administrator, Center for , The American Statistical Association (Telephone # 703-684-1221, Fax # 703-684-3768, E-mail [email protected]). Prepared by: Nitis Mukhopadhyay University of Connecticut-Storrs

Manny Parzen

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Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Joe Newton, Grace Wahba and Manny Parzen

Manny Parzen, Dipak K. Dey and Grace Wahba

New England Statistics Symposium

The Department of Statistics of the University of Connecticut hosted The New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) on Saturday, April 21, 2007. The purpose of NESS is to bring together statisticians from all over New England to a central location to share research, discuss emerging issues in the field and to network with colleagues. There were over 100 participants attended this year’s

-16- NESS. This annual statistics symposium featured two keynote talks by Professors Paul Dupuis o f Brown University and Nitis Mukhopadhyay of the University of Connecticut. Their talks on “Reliable Methods for Rare Event Estimation” and “Sequential methodologies in the twenty first century” were well attended by the symposium participants. In addition, there were six invited themed sessions and three contributed sessions. The topics of these oral presentations include Methods and Applications for Incomplete Data, Bioinformatics, Monte Carlo Methods in Engineering and the Physical Sciences, Neural Data Analysis, Statistical Computing and Methods for Correlated or high dimensional data, Statistical Methods and Modeling. There was also a special invited IBM T.J. Watson Student Awards Session and the speakers of this invited session were the winners of this year’s student awards. Based on the overall quality of the research, the NESS organizing committee selected four winners, including Jingchen Liu and Andrew Thomas of the , Xiaohong Li of the University of Massachusetts, and Sourish Das of the University of Connecticut. This year’s NESS was sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, the Office of Sponsored Programs at UConn, Dean’s Office of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and the Department of Statistics of the University of Connecticut. With such a strong financial support, the organizing committee was able to waive the registration fees for all student participants who gave oral presentations at the symposium. Professors Ming-Hui Chen, Joseph Glaz (chair), Vladimir Pozdnyakov served on this year’s organizing committee. This year marks the 21st anniversary of the New England Statistics Symposium. The first New England Statistics Symposium was held at the University of Connecticut in 1987 and we continue the tradition of hosting the symposium on alternate years. On other years it rotates among Colleges and Universities throughout New England. The 22nd New England Statistics Symposium will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at the Law School of Suffolk University (near Boston Common). Dominique (Bentley) and Jonathan (Suffolk) Haughton will be the co-chairs of the next year’s NESS.

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May 19-20, GE Edgelab, University of Connecticut, Stamford

Co-chaired by Paul Goes, Gladstein Professor of IT and Innovation from UConn, Ravi Bapna, from the Indian School of Business, Dipak Dey, Head of Statistics Department at UConn, and P.K. Kannan from the University of Maryland, the symposium consisted of presentations, tutorials and panel discussions by over 50 renowned scholars from more than twenty universities around the world, including Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, NYU, Texas, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Cornell, Minnesota, Penn State, University of Toronto, Indian School of Business and Singapore School of Management, as well as the University of Connecticut. “At the intersection of information systems, marketing, operations, strategy, statistics and computer science, the field of eCommerce continues to grow very rapidly,” said Dr. Goes. “The new Internet and web technologies that have been introduced in the past few years have unleashed tremendous opportunities and challenges to businesses. SCECR brings together researchers in several fields who are facing these fascinating problems related to how to deal with massive amounts of ecommerce data.” The keynote speech was given by Yahoo! Research principal scientist David Pennock. Dr. Pennock heads the Microeconomics and ecommerce research group, and has been identified by MIT’s Technology Review magazine as one of the top 35 innovators under age 35 having the potential to profoundly impact the world. In his address he overviewed the rapidly growing application of web-based Information Markets and how the fields of machine learning and economic incentives are increasingly coupled together in the new web era. A tutorial on “Hierarchical Bayesian Models” was given by Peter Lenk of University of Michigan. During the symposium, several interesting problems requiring advanced statistical analysis and data mining solutions were presented and discussed at length, including analyzing massive amounts of information from the growing space of social networks on the web, designing increasingly intelligent recommendation and personalization systems, analysis and design of advanced economic online auction mechanisms, strategic alignment of web operations by firms, etc. Additional information on the symposium is available at www.citi.uconn.edu/scecr07.

Mini Symposium on Bayesian Nonparametrics

The Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, hosted a mini symposium on Bayesian Nonparametrics on Saturday, October 7, 2006. The symposium focused on recent advances made in the field of nonparametric methods in Bayesian statistics with applications. A major purpose of the symposium was to provide a forum for the advancement of Bayesian nonparametrics and its potential applications, to discuss and examine areas that are on the cutting edge of statistical research, and to identify areas for future research. This symposium attracted graduate students and faculty from various other departments, eg., Economics, Agricultural Economics, and Mathematics.

-19- The program consisted of invited talks given by Professors Malay Ghosh, University of Florida, Peter Mueller, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, David Blei, Princeton University, Lynn Kuo, University of Connecticut, Jayanta Ghosh, Purdue University and Subhashis Ghosal, North Carolina State University. This symposium was dedicated in honor of Professor J.K. Ghosh for his 65th birthday. This mini symposium was organized by Ming-Hui Chen, Dipak K. Dey (chair) and Ofer Harel and it was sponsored by the Graduate School and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut.

Malay Ghosh, Jayanta K. Ghosh and Dipak K. Dey at the Symposium

Spring Cultural Program, 2007

Spring 2007 saw a revival of one of the most fun and eclectic cultural events in the department: The Spring Cultural Program/Get-together! Organized solely by the students, and attended by most of the faculty, staff and student body, the cultural program turned out to be a major event that brought to the fore the cultural diversity and talent that is an integral part of the department of Statistics. The highlights of the Spring Cultural Program were mainly two: Performances and Food. Performances like singing, dancing, poetry/recitation, cultural presentations and stand-up comedy comprised a major part of the evening on the 10th of February. These performances covered a broad of cultures like South Asian, East Asian, European and American. What was really noteworthy was the enthusiastic participation from the faculty as well. The "Colombian" dance workshop conducted by one of the first year students stole the show! With everyone's appetites reaching their peak after the nearly 2 hour long program of events, the evening gave way to a broad range of dishes from India, Israel, China, Taiwan, Colombia and of course, the States. There were exotic dishes prepared solely by the students and the faculty. Needless to say, there were very few leftovers! The Spring Cultural Program definitely made the start of spring semester 2007 an upbeat one and has become one of the most memorable events of the department that encourages the members of the department to come together in their different avatars of talent and fun!

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Happy Birthday

A big landmark for our Administrative Assistant Cathy Brown.

-22- Faculty News

Ming-Hui Chen and Rick Vitale have become fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. This is very prestigious award for a Statistician. Their citations are as follows:

Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut, For outstanding contributions to research in Bayesian methodology, Bayesian computation, categorical data analysis, and analysis of missing data; and for innovative interdisciplinary work within industry and medicine, especially in advancing the understanding of prostate cancer.

Richard A. Vitale, University of Connecticut, For deep and influential contributions to probability inequalities, random sets and geometry, and symmetric statistics.

Dipak K. Dey Professor and Head, University of Connecticut, received the Purdue University Department of Statistics Outstanding Alumnus Award for 2007. He was honored at a banquet at Purdue on March 30 for outstanding achievement in the field of statistics. He earned his master's degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute, and his master's degree and doctorate in statistics from Purdue in 1977 and 1980, respectively. For further information visit http://www.stat.purdue .edu/people/alums/profiles/dipak_dey.html

Ofer Harel became a father for his first born, Raviv Harel-Sibelman, on March 2007.

Colloquia

We continue to have a stream of excellent colloquia:

Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University Ron S. Kenett, KPA Ltd., Raanana, Israel and Yoav Benjamini, Tel-Aviv University University of Torino, Italy David Blei, Princeton University Steven (Shuangge) Ma, Yale University John Buonaccorsi, University of Massachusetts Peter Mueller, University of Texas - Amherst Robb Muirhead, Pfizer Global Research and Uri Eden, Boston University Development Jianqing Fan, Princeton University Vijay Nair, University of Michigan Cheng-Der Fuh, National Central University Richard Nickl, University of Connecticut and Academia Sinica H. Jane Rogers, University of Connecticut Subhashis Ghosal, North Carolina State Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota University Leonard A. Stefanski, North Carolina State Jayanta K. Ghosh, Purdue University University Malay Ghosh, University of Florida Hariharan Swaminathan, University of Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University Connecticut Nicholas J. Horton, Smith College

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Sudipto Banerjee (Ph.D. 2000) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Sonali Das (Ph.D. 2006) has accepted a Senior Researcher position in CSIR Built Environment at Pretoria, South Africa.

Deborah Diamante (M.S. 2005) has become a proud mother of a baby boy.

Huayan Gao (M.S. 2006) is working in Millward Brown Company, Fairfield, CT.

Sujit Ghosh (Ph.D. 1996) has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University.

Kishori Konwar (M.S. 2007) has joined Goldman Sacks, NY as a financial analyst.

Daniel T. Larose (Ph.D. 1996) is the Director of Data Mining at the Central Connecticut State University. His third volume of a three-volume series on data mining entitled “Data Mining the Web: Uncovering Patterns in Web Content, Structure and Usage”, John Wiley & Sons, has just appeared.

Bani Mallick (Ph.D. 1994) has become the Director of Bayesian Bioinformatics Lab at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Athanasios Micheas (Ph.D. 2001) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Prashni Paliwal (Ph.D. 2004) has joined Bristol Meyers Squibb as a Senior Biostatistician.

Hailin Sang (M.S. 2007) has joined the Mathematics Department at UConn for the Ph.D. program.

Yonghong Wang (M.S. 2007) is working in Discover Card Services, Chicago, IL.

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This year witnessed a revitalization of the student seminar series, which now offers participants one credit for giving a presentation on a selected topic in probability or statistics. The forum gives students exposure to, and cultivates in, different subfields within their discipline, and provides the opportunity to share knowledge and work experiences with one another. A wide variety of subjects were covered in this last round of presentations including bioinformatics, population genetics, pharmaceutical drug trials and spatial statistics among others. An electronic student journal, soon to be accessible from the department home page, has also been created and is being maintained by Sourish Das. Insightful comments from attending faculty members Zhiyi Chi, Dipak Dey and Cyr M’lan added to the value of the experience.

Sourish Das and Baliji Raman received an award from ASA to participate at the Statistics Bowl during the JSM in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Miaomiao Ge got married in May 2007. Her husband will be joining the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UConn.

Elijah Gaioni has become a proud parent of Torin this March 2007.

Yuchen Gu is working as a summer intern at St. Paul Travelers, Hartford, CT.

Feng Guo has received a travel award from the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the ASA to present a paper at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Utah. He will be joining Virginia Tech after completion of his Ph.D. during the summer.

Sy Han (Steven) Chiou is a double major in Math and Stat. He got second place overall in the Competition and he also did well in the Putnam Math Competition this year. He will be recognized at the Math Dept Awards ceremony on April 18.

Sandra Hurtado-Rao received travel award to attend the “Industrial Mathematical & Statistical Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students” through the Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

William Pepe defended his Ph.D. thesis in May 2007.

Jennifer Slechta, a Math-Stat major was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Only 1% of college seniors nationwide are invited to join. The initiation will be held on Sunday April 22. I would like to recommend to our Dean for her nomination to the Outstanding Senior Woman Student Award (see attached Provost's announcement).

Congratulations to Taylor Stewart, who was accepted to the SAMSI/CRSC Undergraduate Workshop, May 21 - 25, 2007 at North Carolina State University. This is a one week undergraduate workshop intended for college juniors and seniors focused on SAMSI research activities related to the statistical and applied mathematical modeling and analysis of experimental data

-25- Michael Tosca (Bachelors in Mathematics-Statistics 2006) will join the Ph.D. program in Earth Systems Science at UC Irvine in Fall 2006.

Fang Yu will be joining the Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska, Omaha as an Assistant Professor.

Student Achievement Awards for 2006

Gottfried Noether Award: Yuchen Gu

H. Fairfield Smith Award: Jeffrey Stratton

Certificate of Appreciation for the Best Performance in Statistical Inference: Wangang Xie

Recent Ph.D.’s and Their Current Affiliations

Samiran Ghosh, Ph.D., 2006, Assistant Professor, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana. Ulysses Diva, Ph.D., 2006, Biostatistician, Bristol Meyers and Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut. Changhong Song, Ph.D., 2006, Statistician, EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland. Sonali Das, Ph.D., 2006, Senior Research, Logistics and Quantitative Methods, CSIR Built Environment, Pretoria, South Africa. Zoe Oemcke, Ph.D., 2006, Statistician, Mass Mutual Insurance Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. William Pepe, Ph.D., 2007 Fang Yu, Ph.D., 2007 Feng Guo, Ph.D., 2007 Yingmei Xi, Ph.D., 2007

Recent Masters

Huayan Gao, Amit Loewy, Jian Meng, Chengxia Zhou, Kishori Konwar, Hailin Sang and Yonghong Wang.

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Stephen Aloi, David Andrews, Patricia Apruzzese, Christina Bloking, Meghan Carabina, Scott D'Alessandri, Jessica Feldman, Michael Grabowski, Robert Jordan, Katrina Lerman, Charles McCarthy, Wesley Mohn, Michael Muldoff, Rina Rahardjo, Ysanne Richards, Meredith Scarlata, Brian Trost, Melissa Woelfel, Todd Turton, Angelo LaBella, Serena Del Basso, Michael Tosca, Cheyenne Updegrave, Elizabeth Hoyt, Puneet Nanda, Marie Buemi, Nina Steele, Kenneth Seder, Heather Sullivan, Jennifer Goetsch, Christopher Ragali, Jennifer Slechta, Vicki Stuffle and Michael Zarrilli.

Faculty, Staff and Adjunct Faculty

Sandy Adelstein, Adjunct Lecturer [email protected] Cathy Brown, Administrative Assistant [email protected] Tracy Burke, Secretary [email protected] Joseph Cappelleri, Lecturer and Adjunct joseph.c.cappelleri!pfizer.com Ming-Hui Chen, Professor [email protected] Zhiyi Chi, Associate Professor [email protected] Fred Dauser, Adjunct Lecturer [email protected] Dipak K. Dey, Professor and Head [email protected] Anne Doyle, Adjunct Lecturer [email protected] Evarist Gine, Adjunct Professor (Math) [email protected] Joseph Glaz, Professor [email protected] Ofer Harel, Assistant Professor [email protected] Kent Holsinger, Adjunct Professor (EEB) [email protected] Lynn Kuo, Professor [email protected] Cyr M’lan, Assistant Professor [email protected] Suman Majumdar, Associate Professor (Stamford) [email protected] Kate McLaughlin, Adjunct Lecturer [email protected] Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Professor [email protected] Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Associate Professor (Hartford) [email protected] Nalini Ravishanker, Professor [email protected] Bonnie Ray, Adjunct Associate Professor [email protected] Naitee Ting, Lecturer and Adjunct [email protected] Gautam Tripathi, Adjunct Associate Professor (Economics) [email protected] Richard Vitale, Professor [email protected] Stephen Walsh, Adjunct [email protected] Yazhen Wang, Professor [email protected]

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