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.