Affiliations:
Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering
GCC for Bioinformatics
Rice VIGRE
MD Anderson Biostatistics

Marina Vannucci is currently a Professor in the Department of Statistics at Rice University, Houston, TX. She received the Laurea (B.S.) degree in Mathematics in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree in Statistics in 1996, both from the University of Florence, Italy. Prior to joining Rice in 2007, Dr. Vannucci was Research Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, during 1996-1998. In 1998 she joined the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University, TX, as Assistant Professor, became Associate Professor in 2003 and Full Professor in 2005. Dr. Vannucci was visiting scholar at Stanford University, CA, during Summer and Fall of 2001, and at Columbia University, NY, during Fall of 2004. While at Texas A&M she served as program coordinator and mentor for a Training Program in Bioinformatics and as co-director for the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Facility Core of the NIEHS Center for Environmental and Rural Health. She is currently an adjunct faculty member of the UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, TX, and the co-Director of the Interinstitutional Graduate Program in Biostatistics.

Dr. Vannucci's research focuses on the theory and practice of Bayesian variable selection techniques and on the development of wavelet-based statistical models and their application. She has co-authored over 60 technical papers, and is the co-editor of the collection "Bayesian Inference for Gene Expression and Proteomics". Dr. Vannucci was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2001, she won the Mitchell prize from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2003, was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2006, of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 2007 and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in 2009.

Curriculum Vitae - last updated 03/2009
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