Seminar - Research Spotlight Talk

Event Date: 

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Event Location: 

  • HSSB 1173
  • Department Seminar
Note: This talk is intended to introduce research directions/projects of some PSTAT faculties and help junior graduate students to find interesting research topics. Therefore, this talk is mandatory for all students enrolled in PSTAT 263, and highly encourage all junior graduate students to attend the seminar.
 
Title:
Faculty Research Spotlight Seminar
 
Time and Location:
Wednesday Feb. 22, 2023 - 3:30 - 4:30 pm, HSSB 1173
 
Abstract:
PSTAT faculty members introduce their research: Wendy Meiring and Mengyang Gu.
 
Biographies: 
Wendy Meiring is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (PSTAT), with courtesy affiliations in the Bren School for Environmental Science and Management, and in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Dynamical Neuroscience. The majority of her research involves spatio-temporal statistics (for data collected over space and time) or functional data analysis. Prof Meiring especially enjoys cross-disciplinary scientific collaborations, frequently with scientists whose labs collect data themselves to address exciting scientific questions. Prof Meiring joined UCSB in 1998, having completed her PhD in Statistics at University of Washington, and a postdoc in the Geophysical Statistics Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
 
Mengyang Gu is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to joining UCSB, he was a research assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University and he obtained his PhD in Statistical Science from Duke. He won a few awards since he joined UCSB, such as the SIAG/UQ early career prize, Hellman faculty fellowship, and ACM IMC best long paper award. His research interests include Bayesian analysis, uncertainty quantification, machine learning, spatio-temporal modeling and image analysis, with applications in physics, materials science, geological hazard quantification and epidemiology. 

 

Wendy Meiring
Mengyang Gu