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Marco Ferreira
Marco Antonio Rosa Ferreira, Assoc Professor, Statistics.

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210-C Hutcheson Hall (MC 0439) 
250 Drillfield Drive 
Blacksburg, VA 24061

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Marco Ferreira's CV

Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2002
    Dissertation Title: Bayesian multi-scale modeling
    Dissertation Advisor: M. West
  • M.Sc. in Statistics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1994
  • B.Sc. in Statistics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1993

Awards & Honors

  • OBAYES Poster Prize - 2009 International Workshop on Objective Bayesian Methodology, 2009
  • CNPq Fellow from 2003 to 2006
  • WNAR / COBAL 2 Award for Best Poster Presentation, Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society / ISBA, 2005 (with Fonseca and Migon)
  • Finalist of the Savage Award, ISBA, 2003
  • Springer Poster Prize - IV International Workshop on Objective Bayesian Methodology, ISBA, 2003
  • Best contributed paper of the Computational Statistical Section, JSM 2000, American Statistical Association, 2000 (with Lee, Higdon and West)  

Other Activities

  • Associate Editor of the Journal Bayesian Analysis

Professional Memberships

  • American Statistical Association
  • International Society for Bayesian Analysis

 

STAT 5544 (Fall 2014)

  • Highly structured models: multi-scale models, spatial-temporal models, Markov random fields, state-space models
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Computational statistics: Markov chain Monte Carlo, simulated annealing and genetic algorithms
  • Inverse problems: solution and uncertainty characterization
  • Applications to environment, medicine, epidemiology

For an up-to-date list of publications, see 

https://marf-at-vt.github.io/papers.html