Education
Pennsylvania State University.
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David Dunson
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Career
Dunson also holds professorships in the mathematics and electrical and computer engineering departments at Duke. He has written highly cited research papers on fertility and uterine cancer, and is also known as one of the authors of the textbook Bayesian Data Analysis. Dunson earned a bachelor"s degree in mathematics from Pennsylvania State University in 1994, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in biostatistics in 1997 from Emory University under the supervision of Betz Halloran.
He was employed at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences from 1997 to 2008, joined the Duke faculty as an adjunct associate professor in 2000, and became a full-time Duke professor in 2008.
He also held an adjunct faculty position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001 to 2013. He was named Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in 2013.
Achievements
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Dunson became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007, the same year in which he won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award given annually to a young researcher in health statistics. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2010, and in the same year won the COPSS Presidents" Award.
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Awards
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Arts and Sciences; COPSS Presidents' Award
The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a person under the age of 40, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics.The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a person under the age of 40, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics.