Katerina Joanna Kechris | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
University of California, Los Angeles (B.S.) University of California, Berkeley (M.S., Ph.D.) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Colorado School of Public Health |
Thesis | Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences (2003) |
Katerina Joanna Kechris is an American statistician, a professor of biostatistics and informatics in the Colorado School of Public Health, and a regional president of the International Biometric Society. Her research focuses on the use of omics data to study relations between genetics and disease. [1]
Kechris graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997, and completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. [2] Her dissertation, supervised by Peter J. Bickel, was Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences. [3] Before joining the Colorado School of Public Health, she did postdoctoral research with Hao Li at the University of California, San Francisco. [4]
Kechris was elected regional president for the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society for 2019. [5] She was selected to become a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2019, "for contributions to high-dimensional biological data analysis, team science and training and mentoring of students". [6] [7] She served as Section Chair for the ASA Section on Statistics and Genomics and Genetics in 2021.
Katerina Joanna Kechris | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
University of California, Los Angeles (B.S.) University of California, Berkeley (M.S., Ph.D.) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Colorado School of Public Health |
Thesis | Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences (2003) |
Katerina Joanna Kechris is an American statistician, a professor of biostatistics and informatics in the Colorado School of Public Health, and a regional president of the International Biometric Society. Her research focuses on the use of omics data to study relations between genetics and disease. [1]
Kechris graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997, and completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. [2] Her dissertation, supervised by Peter J. Bickel, was Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences. [3] Before joining the Colorado School of Public Health, she did postdoctoral research with Hao Li at the University of California, San Francisco. [4]
Kechris was elected regional president for the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society for 2019. [5] She was selected to become a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2019, "for contributions to high-dimensional biological data analysis, team science and training and mentoring of students". [6] [7] She served as Section Chair for the ASA Section on Statistics and Genomics and Genetics in 2021.