{"607019":{"#nid":"607019","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE\/BME Professor Brani Vidakovic Appointed as a Program Director for NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Georgia Tech Professor Branislav Vidakovic, who holds a joint appointment in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), as a program director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We could not be more excited about this honor for Brani,\u0026rdquo; said ISyE H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair and Professor Edwin Romeijn. \u0026ldquo;His being selected as director for the statistics program in NSF\u0026#39;s DMS reflects his numerous accomplishments in a wide variety of statistical fields \u0026ndash; including Bayesian, biostatistics, and statistics in medicine and the environment. We look forward to seeing how, in this appointment, Brani will help advance the DMS mission.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This appointment is important for ISyE and BME, as well as more widely for Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said Vidakovic. \u0026ldquo;Through it, we will participate in shaping the national research agenda when it comes to engineering and bioengineering data analysis.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDMS supports research in mathematics and statistics, training through research involvement of the next generation of mathematical scientists, conferences and workshops, and a portfolio of national mathematical sciences research institutes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVidakovic\u0026rsquo;s year-long appointment will begin in September 2018, with the option for him to serve in the position for a subsequent year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout Professor Vidakovic\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to various statistical areas, Vidakovic\u0026rsquo;s research interests include wavelets and statistical signal and image processing. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has authored or co-authored several books and numerous journal articles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVidakovic has served as the former or current associate editor of \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the American Statistical Association\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ECommunications in Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EAnnals of Applied Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ES\u0026atilde;o Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Statistical Planning and Inference\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EApplied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry\u003C\/em\u003E, the \u003Cem\u003EBrazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E, and \u003Cem\u003EBayesian Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe holds a Ph.D. in statistics from Purdue University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVidakovic\u0026rsquo;s year-long appointment will begin in September 2018, with the option for him to serve in the position for a subsequent year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Vidakovic\u2019s year-long appointment will begin in September 2018, with the option for him to serve in the position for a subsequent year. 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