News
- Vannucci co-organizer of the Statistical Methods in Imaging conference, May 19-21, 2025, Rice University, Houston, TX (05/2025)
- Vannucci is founding co-Editor and first Editor-in-Chief of the journal Statistics and Data Science in Imaging (08/2024)
- Emily Wang (PhD 2022) wins ISBA Savage award for Best Thesis. Congratulations! (08/2023)
- Zijian Zeng (PhD student) wins James R. Thompson Student Award. Congratulations! (01/2023)
- Zijian Zeng (PhD student) runner up in the Statistical Methods in Imaging student contest. Congratulations! (04/2022)
- Zijian Zeng (PhD student) among ASA-MHSS student paper winners. Congratulations! (01/2022)
- Emily Wang (PhD student) wins ENAR Distinguished Paper Award. Congratulations! (01/2022)
- A Primer on Bayesian Statistics and Modelling (Van de Schoot et al., 2021, Nature Review Methods Primers) is article 1 on volume 1 of a new Nature journal!
- Paper A Bayesian Model of Microbiome Data for Simultaneous Identification of Covariate Associations and Prediction of Phenotypic Outcomes (Koslovsky et. al. 2020, AOAS) presented as “Best of Annals of Applied Stats” at JSM 2021
- Vannucci celebrated by ASA on Women in Statistics list (03/2021)
- Chunshan Liu and Nathan Osborne (PhD students) win ASA best paper awards. Congratulations! (01/2021)
- Vannucci awarded Zellner medal from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (06/2020)
- Vannucci receives Rice University School of Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Adviser Award (04/2020)
- Emily Wang (PhD student) awarded National Library of Medicine fellowship. Congratulations! (11/2019)
- Paper Hierarchical Normalized Completely Random Measures for Robust Graphical Modeling (Cremaschi et al, 2019, Bayesian Analysis) selected for Honorable mention, 2018 ISBA Lindley Prize.
- Paper Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease: A Bayesian Model for Differentiating Seizure Risk from Natural Variability (Chiang et. al, 2018, Epilepsia OPEN) receives 2019 Epilepsia OPEN Prize in Clinical Science!
- Vannucci appointed co-Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association – Theory & Methods (11/2019)
- Yinsen Miao (PhD student) receives inaugural James R. Thompson Student Award. Congratulations! (08/2019)
- Paper A Fully Bayesian Latent Variable Model for Integrative Clustering Analysis of Multi-type Omics Data (Mo et al., 2018, Biostatistics) among 2019 Top Cited
- Paper Bayesian Models for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Analysis (Zhang et. al., 2015, WIREs Computational Statistics) in 2019 Top Ten
- Vannucci begins term as Elected President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. (01/2018)
- Qiwei Li and Ryan Warnick (PhD students) win ASA-SBSS Student Travel Awards to attend JSM. Congratulations! (02/2017)
- Elin Shaddox (PhD student) awarded NLM Fellowship. Congratulations! (12/2016)
- Vannucci named to Noah Harding Chair at Rice University (07/2016)
- Linlin Zhang‘s PhD thesis gets honorable mention for the Savage Award. Congratulations! (06/2016)
- Qiwei Li (PhD student) wins M. Clinton Miller III Outstanding Poster Award at SRCOS. Congratulations! (06/2016)
- Christine Peterson‘s Ph.D. thesis wins Savage award. Congratulations! (08/2015)
- Sharon Chiang (PhD student) named Top Speaker at NLM Informatics Training Conference. Congratulations! (06/2015)
- Ryan Warnick (PhD student) awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations! (03/2015)
- Vannucci named Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (06/2014)
- Vannucci named Chair of the Department of Statistics at Rice University (06/2014)
- Vannucci elected Fellow of AAAS (American Association the the Advancement of Science) (12/2012)
- Christine Peterson (PhD student) gives plenary talk at NLM training conference. Congratulations! (06/2012)
- Francesco Stingo (PhD student) wins best Ph.D. dissertation award from the Italian Statistical Society. Congratulations! (06/2011)
