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Bruno Jedynak promoted to Associate Research Professor

Dr. Jedynak has been on the faculty previously as a visiting professor to the
Center for Imaging Science and the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department from the Scientific University of Lille. He is an expert in statistics and in particular its application to image analysis, pattern recognition, and statistical classification. More about Professor Jedynak ..

AM&S's Carey Priebe Selected By Department of Defense for New Fellowship

An article in the Baltimore Sun highlights Carey Priebe as one of six to form the inaugural class of the Department of Defense's new National Security Science and Engineering Fellowship Program. Read the Sun Article >> Read Washington Post Article>>

Work of Bruno Jedynak and collaborators featured in ScienceDaily

Bruno Jedynak, Assistant Research Professor in the AM&S department and Center for Imaging Science collaborated with Andre Levchenko from the Whiting School's Department of Biomedical Engineering in designing an imaging system for the analysis of a colony of cells forming a biofilm.The work is described in ScienceDaily. Read more from the original PLoS Biology article ...

David Audley named Associate Director (Designate) of Financial Mathematics Master's Program

David Audley, who received his PhD in 1972 from the Johns Hopkins Electrical Engineering department, has been working on Wall Street for the past 20 years. He has experience in portfolio management, analytic trading, risk management, financial technologies, and has performed research in the quantitative modeling of securities and markets - specializing in term structure models and relative value analysis. He is part owner of two
companies -- Watch Hill Investment Partners, a hedge fund and Beacon Capital Markets, whose main product for electronic bond trading is enabled by peer-to-peer computer technology. Before joining the department as a
full-time faculty member, David taught Financial Mathematics courses in the Applied Mathematics and Statistics department while helping to guide the creation of the new Financial Mathematics Master's program.

Carey Priebe named an elected ISI member

Carey Priebe has been named an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, by virtue of his distinguished contributions to the development or application of statistical methods.

Lowell Abrams to spend sabbatical year in AM&S

Lowell Abrams, who earned his PhD from the Johns Hopkins Mathematics Department in 1997 and has just been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the George Washington University Department of Mathematics, is spending a sabbatical year visiting the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at JHU. His current research interests focus on the interaction of topology and combinatorics, and involve digital, combinatorial, and computational topology, as well as topological graph theory. Dr. Abrams will be spending much of his time at JHU working with his collaborators Donniell Fishkind and Carey Priebe on projects relating to minefield path planning and to brain imaging. Read more ...

Ed Scheinerman's C++ for Mathematicians book is published

C++ books are typically written for those interested in software development or scientific computing. Written by a mathematician for mathematicians, C++ for Mathematicians is organized around mathematical concepts and introduces the needed C++ concepts in concert with analyzing the mathematical situation at hand. Read more ...

Dan Naiman and Lingxin Hao's Quantile Regression book

In traditional regression modeling, one attempts to describe the effect of explanatory variables on the central tendency of a response variable. Quantile regression models describe effects of explanatory variables on quantiles, e.g. the 90th percentile, of a response variable. Dan Naiman collaborated with JHU Sociology Professor to publish a book entitled "Quantile Regression" as part of the Sage Publication Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. The work was supported by the Duncan Fund for the Advancement of Statistics Research. Read more ...

Don Geman and Dan Naiman's TSP method used to differentiate gastrointestinal stromal tumors and leiomyosarcomas

In 2004, Don Geman, Dan Naiman and co-workers introduced a powerful
new way of diagnosing cancers and classifying tumor samples using gene
expression data. The decision rules involve very few genes and are
especially easy to interpret because they are based entirely on
pairwise mRNA comparisons. In a recent paper in the Proceeedings of the National Academy of Sciences, molecular biologists used the TSP
classifier to differentiate between gastrointestimal stromal tumors
and leiomyosarcomas with essentially perfect accuracy. Read more ...