Marina Vannucci

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Marina Vannucci in 2024

Education| University of Florence
Scientific career
Fields| Statistics
Institutions| Rice University
Thesis| On the Application of Wavelets in Statistics (1996)
Doctoral advisor| Antonio Moro

Marina Vannucci (born 1966)[1] is an Italian statistician, the Noah Harding Professor and Chair of Statistics at Rice University, the past president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and the former editor-in-chief of Bayesian Analysis. Topics in her research include wavelets, feature selection, and cluster analysis in Bayesian statistics.

## Contents

* 1 Education and career
* 2 Awards and honors
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Education and career

Vannucci earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1992, from the University of Florence. She completed her doctorate in statistics in 1996 at the same institution.[2] Her dissertation, supervised by Antonio Moro, was On the Application of Wavelets in Statistics.[3] After postdoctoral research at the University of Kent, she joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1998, and moved to Rice in 2007.

She was editor-in-chief of Bayesian Analysis for 2013–2015,[2] and was elected president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the 2018 term.[4]

## Awards and honors

Vannucci is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (2006),[2] the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2009),[2][5] the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012),[2][6] and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2014), and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (2007).[2] The citation for her IMS fellowship credits her "for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of Bayesian methods for variable selection, and of wavelet-based modeling, and for mentorship of young researchers".[5] She was given the Noah Harding Chair in 2016.[7]

## References

1. ↑ Birthdate from Worldcat
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Vannucci, Marina (September 9, 2017), Brief bio, http://www.stat.rice.edu/~marina/aboutme.html, retrieved 2017-10-24
3. ↑ Marina Vannucci at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. ↑ Executive Committee, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, https://bayesian.org/governance/leadership/, retrieved 2017-10-24
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 IMS Announces 2009 Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, May 8, 2009, http://imstat.org/news/2009/05/08/ims-announces-2009-fellows.html, retrieved 2017-10-24
6. ↑ "Seventeen Members Elected Fellows of AAAS", Amstat News (American Statistical Association), January 1, 2013, http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2013/01/01/elected-fellows-of-aaas/
7. ↑ Vannucci named Noah Harding Chair, Rice University Department of Statistics, September 26, 2016, https://statistics.rice.edu/news/vannucci-named-noah-harding-chair, retrieved 2017-10-24

## External links

* Home page
* Marina Vannucci publications indexed by Google Scholar

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