Dr.
Genevera Allen, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Statistics and
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, the Department of
Pediatrics-Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine, and the Jan and Dan Duncan
Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, discussed
developing mathematical tools to understand massive amounts of data in medicine
and engineering in November 2012. You can view her session at http://bit.ly/Allen_Narayan.
Dr. Genevera Allen is an Assistant
Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Rice University, the Department of Pediatrics-Neurology at
Baylor College of Medicine, and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research
Institute at Texas Children's Hospital. Dr. Allen develops mathematical
tools to help scientists understand massive amounts of data. Recent
technological advances in medicine and engineering have produced larger and
more complex data sets. By using techniques from artificial intelligence,
optimization theory, and high-performance computing, Dr. Allen solves the
statistical problems arising from these new technologies. Also as part of her
joint position, Dr. Allen works directly with medical researchers to develop
the necessary quantitative tools to make discoveries from high-throughput
biomedical data. Her work has been applied in areas of neuroimaging, functional
genomics, and metabolomics.
Dr. Allen earned her Ph.D. from Stanford U. in Statistics, and her Bachelors in
Statistics from Rice U. She has received several awards including being
selected to represent North America in the Young Statistician Showcase for the
International Biometric Society (2012), the David Byar Young Investigator
Travel Award from the American Statistical Association (2011), and grants from
the National Science Foundation and Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University.