Current BayesComp-ISBA board members
Chris Oates. Section Chair 2023-2025.
Chris is a Professor of Statistics at Newcastle University and Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, UK. Chris is interested in computational statistics, kernel methods, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification. For more information, visit his website.
Anirban Bhattacharya. Section Chair-Elect 2023-2025.
Anirban is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Anirban's work focuses on methodological, theoretical, and computational aspects of modern Bayesian statistics and machine learning. For more information, visit his website.
Antonio Linero. Program Chair 2023-2025.
Antonio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Antonio's work focuses on the intersection of computation, theory, and application of Bayesian nonparametric methods to problems in causal inference and missing data. For more information, visit his website.
Brenda Betancourt. Treasurer 2022-2024.
Brenda is a Senior Statistician at NORC, University of Chicago. Brenda specializes on statistical methods for record linkage, data merging and deduplication. For more information, visit her website.
Emilia Pompe. Secretary 2022-2024.
Emilia is a Data Scientist at Google, Zürich. Emilia's expertise is in Markov chain Monte Carlo and bootstrapping for Bayesian inference. Before joining Google, Emilia obtained her PhD in Statistics from the University of Oxford.