My CV– last updated 12/2023
Dr. Vannucci is currently Noah Harding Professor of Statistics at Rice University and holds an Adjunct appointment with the Department of Biostatistics at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. She received a Laurea (B.S.) degree in Mathematics in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree in Statistics in 1996, both from the University of Florence, Italy. During 1996-1998, she was Research Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. In 1998, she joined the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University, TX, as Assistant Professor, became Associate Professor in 2003 and Full Professor in 2005. She has been at Rice since 2007. She served as Department Chair during 2014-2019 and was named Noah Harding Professor in 2016.
Dr. Vannucci is generally interested in the development of Bayesian statistical models for complex problems and applications to Science. She has contributed methodological innovations to wavelet-based modeling of functional data; to variable selection approaches for linear settings, for model-based clustering and for modeling settings with non-Gaussian data; and to methods for multiple graphs estimation. Her research is often motivated by real problems that need to be addressed with suitable statistical methods. She has a solid history of scientific collaborations and is particularly interested in applications of Bayesian statistics to high-throughput genomics, neuroimaging and neuroscience. Dr. Vannucci has published over 165 research papers, co-edited 5 books and delivered more than 200 invited presentations. She has supervised 28 Ph.D. students and 12 postdoctoral fellows, since 1998.
Dr. Vannucci was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2001 and won the Mitchell prize from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2003. She is an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). She served as the Elected President of ISBA in 2018 and as the Editor-in-Chief of Bayesian Analysis, the flagship journal of ISBA, in 2013-2015. In 2020, she was awarded the Zellner Medal by ISBA, for exceptional service over an extended period of time with long-lasting impact. She was co-Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association – Theory & Methods, the premier journal of the ASA, in 2020-2023.
