Vanja Dukic is an expert in computational statistics and mathematical epidemiology who works as a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research includes work on using internet search engine access patterns to track diseases,[1][2] and on the effects of climate change on the spread of diseases.
Dukic earned a bachelor's degree in finance and actuarial mathematics from Bryant University in 1995.[3] She completed her doctorate at Brown University in 2001, under the joint supervision of biostatisticians Constantine Gatsonis and Joseph Hogan.[4] She worked as a faculty member in the biostatistics program of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago from 2001 to 2010, before moving to Colorado.[3]
In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for important contributions to Bayesian modeling of complex processes and analysis of Big Data, substantive and collaborative research in infectious diseases and climate change, and service to the profession, including excellence in editorial work."[5][6]
Select publications
- L S Wakschlag; E O Kistner; D S Pine; et al. (3 March 2009). "Interaction of prenatal exposure to cigarettes and MAOA genotype in pathways to youth antisocial behavior". Molecular Psychiatry. 15 (9): 928–937. doi:10.1038/MP.2009.22. ISSN 1359-4184. PMC 2905677. PMID 19255579. Wikidata Q34001924.
- Vanja M Dukic; Diane S Lauderdale; Jocelyn Wilder; Robert S Daum; Michael Z David (2 January 2013). "Epidemics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States: a meta-analysis". PLOS One. 8 (1): e52722. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...852722D. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0052722. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3534721. PMID 23300988. Wikidata Q34542185.
- James J Dignam; Vanja Dukic; Stewart J Anderson; Eleftherios P Mamounas; D Lawrence Wickerham; Norman Wolmark (2 October 2008). "Hazard of recurrence and adjuvant treatment effects over time in lymph node-negative breast cancer". Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 116 (3): 595–602. doi:10.1007/S10549-008-0200-5. ISSN 0167-6806. PMC 2711214. PMID 18830816. Wikidata Q37263046.
References
- ↑ Wernau, Julie (December 11, 2009), "Flu is waning, say U. of C. professors: Trio uses Google data to track illness", Chicago Tribune.
- ↑ Keim, Brandon (May 20, 2011), "Google search patterns could track MRSA spread", Wired.
- 1 2 Home page and brief biography, University of Colorado, retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ Vanja Dukic at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "ASA name 62 new Fellows", IMS Bulletin, October 2, 2015.
- ↑ ASA name 62 new Fellows: Selection honors each as "foremost members" of statistical science (PDF), American Statistical Association, June 4, 2015, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04, retrieved 2016-07-09.
External links
- Vanja Dukic publications indexed by Google Scholar