Biography:Katerina Kechris
Katerina Joanna Kechris | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles (B.S.) University of California, Berkeley (M.S.,Ph.D.) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Colorado School of Public Health |
Thesis | Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences (2003) |
Katerina Joanna Kechris is an American statistician, a professor of biostatistics and informatics in the Colorado School of Public Health, and a regional president of the International Biometric Society. Her research focuses on the use of omics data to study relations between genetics and disease.[1]
Education
Kechris graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997, and completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.[2] Her dissertation, supervised by Peter J. Bickel, was Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences.[3] Before joining the Colorado School of Public Health, she did postdoctoral research with Hao Li at the University of California, San Francisco.[4]
Recognition
Kechris was elected regional president for the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society for 2019.[5] She was selected to become a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2019, "for contributions to high-dimensional biological data analysis, team science and training and mentoring of students". [6][7] She served as Section Chair for the ASA Section on Statistics and Genomics and Genetics in 2021.
References
- ↑ Colorado Bestows First Research Excellence Award for Use of Omics to Uncover Hidden Relationship between Genetics and Disease, Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health, August 17, 2017, https://www.aspph.org/colorado-bestows-first-research-excellence-award-for-use-of-omics-to-uncover-hidden-relationship-between-genetics-and-disease/, retrieved 2019-08-03
- ↑ "Katerina Kechris", Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology (University of Colorado Boulder), 2017-11-20, https://www.colorado.edu/certificate/iqbiology/katerina-kechris, retrieved 2019-08-03
- ↑ Fan, Jianqing; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wu, C. F. Jeff, eds. (2012), "Ph.D. Students of Peter J. Bickel", Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel, Selected Works in Probability and Statistics, 13, Springer, pp. xxxi–xxxiii, ISBN 9781461455448
- ↑ Li, Hao, Li Lab Members, University of California, San Francisco, http://mobydick.ucsf.edu/~haoli/labmembers.html, retrieved 2019-08-03
- ↑ Colorado Faculty Member Elected Regional President of Biometric Society, Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health, February 14, 2018, https://www.aspph.org/colorado-faculty-member-elected-regional-president-of-biometric-society/, retrieved 2019-08-03
- ↑ Colorado: Faculty Member Granted Prestigious Fellowship, Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health, April 25, 2019, https://www.aspph.org/colorado-faculty-member-granted-prestigious-fellowship/, retrieved 2019-08-03
- ↑ "New ASA Fellows announced", IMS Bulletin (Institute of Mathematical Statistics), May 15, 2019, http://bulletin.imstat.org/2019/05/new-asa-fellows-announced/, retrieved 2019-08-03
External links
- Home page
- Katerina Kechris publications indexed by Google Scholar
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