Marina Vannucci

Italian statistician

Marina Vannucci

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.

## Education and career

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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

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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

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1. ^ Birthdate from Worldcat
2. ^ a b c d e f Vannucci, Marina (September 9, 2017), Brief bio, retrieved 2017-10-24
3. ^ Marina Vannucci at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. ^ Executive Committee, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, retrieved 2017-10-24
5. ^ a b IMS Announces 2009 Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, May 8, 2009, retrieved 2017-10-24
6. ^ "Seventeen Members Elected Fellows of AAAS", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, January 1, 2013
7. ^ Vannucci named Noah Harding Chair, Rice University Department of Statistics, September 26, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-24

## External links

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* Home page
* Marina Vannucci publications indexed by Google Scholar

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