{"57678":{"#nid":"57678","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Welcomes New Faculty - Brani Vidakovic","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBRANI VIDAKOVIC has joined the faculty as an associate professor in statistics. Dr. Vidakovic comes to Georgia Tech from Duke University, where he has been an assistant professor since 1993.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Vidakovic holds a Ph.D. in statistics from Purdue University, where his thesis was titled \u003Cem\u003EA Study of Properties of Computationally Simply Rules in Estimation Problems\u003C\/em\u003E. His master\u0027s and bachelor\u0027s are from Belgrade University. He has previously held visiting teacher positions with the University of North Carolina and Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Vidakovic\u0027s research interests include wavelets, Bayesian decision theory, statistical theory of turbulence, T-Minimax theory statistical computing, theory of algorithmic complexity, and statistical education. He is a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the international Society for Bayesian Analysis. He received the l.W. Burr Award for Excellence in Teaching, Consulting, and Research while at Purdue in 1992. He has authored or co-authored three books and numerous journal articles.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2001-03-01 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:35","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2001-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2001-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}