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Marina Vannucci
Noah Harding Professor and Chair of Statistics, Rice University

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Predicting whether surgery will relieve seizures (12/2007).

Presurgical imaging may predict whether epilepsy surgery will work (12/2017).

NPBayes-fMRI toolbox released! (10/2017).

Vannucci joins JASA T&M Editorial Board as AE (07/2017).

Vannucci keynote speaker at SRCOS Summer Research Conference (06/2017).

NSF SES-1659925 grant awarded. Collaborative Research: Bayesian Approaches for Inference on Brain Connectivity (04/2017).

Vannucci delivers H.A. David Distinguished Lecture at Iowa State University (03/2017).

Statistics method shows networks differ in epileptic brains (03/2017).

Qiwei Li and Ryan Warnick win ASA-SBSS Student Travel Awards to attend JSM (02/2017).

Elin Shaddox awarded an NLM Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics (12/2016).

Vannucci elected the 2018 President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) (11/2016).

Vannucci member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for BigInsight, Oslo, Norway (10/2016).

Vannucci named to Noah Harding Chair (07/2016).

Rice wins interdisciplinary 'big data' grant from the National Science Foundation (07/2016).

Linlin Zhang's PhD thesis gets an honorable mention for the Savage Award (06/2016).

Qiwei Li wins M. Clinton Miller III Outstanding Poster Award at SRCOS (06/2016).

Vannucci member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK (02/2016).

Christine Peterson's Ph.D. thesis wins Savage award (08/2015).

Sharon Chiang named NLM Top Speaker (06/2015).

Ryan Warnick awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship (03/2015).

Vannucci named ISBA Fellow (06/2014).

Vannucci named STAT department chair (06/2014).

ABS13 - 2013 Summer School on Applied Bayesian Statistics School, Como, Italy (06/2013).

Biostatistics for cancer research program renewed (05/2013).

Vannucci elected AAAS (American Association the the Advancement of Science) fellow (12/2012).

Christine Peterson gives plenary talk at NLM conference (06/2012).

Francesco Stingo wins best dissertation award (06/2011).

Simmons family foundation awards collaborative research grants (01/2011).

Social interaction can identify mental pathology (10/2010).

Vannucci elected IMS fellow (05/2009).

Contact Info:
Department of Statistics
Rice University
6100 Main Street, MS 138
Houston, TX 77005, USA
Office: 2083 Duncan Hall
Phone: (713) 348-6132
Fax: (713) 348-5476
E-mail: marina@rice.edu