Keles Research Group

Announcements:

Postdoctoral Researcher Position (posted on 8/27/09):

A  postdoctoral researcher position is immediately available in the  group of Prof. Sunduz Keles in the Departments of Statistics and of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at UW Madison.  The successful candidate will work on an NIH funded project to develop statistical and computational methods for high dimensional genomic data with emphasis on high throughput sequencing.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Statistics, Biostatistics or related disciplines and must have  strong interests in statistical  genomics. Strong programming skills (e.g., R, C, C++,  perl, java), excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.

Interested applicants should apply by email to keles@stat.wisc.edu  with subject line “Postdoctoral Position”

and include:

1) CV (with a list of peer reviewed publications),

2) cover letter describing current research interests and activity,

3) names and email addresses of three references.

News:

May’09

• Congratulations to Dr. Pei Fen Kuan who defended her thesis on May 11, 2009.

August’08

• Congratulations to Dr. Hyonho Chun who defended her thesis on August 19, 2008.

July’08

• Congratulations to Pei-Fen who passed her prelims on July 29, 2008.

January’08

• Kevin Eng is one of the International Biometric Society – Eastern North American Region (ENAR) 2008 Distinguished Student Paper Award winners. He has been awarded an ENAR student travel award for his paper: “A linear mixed model for multi-species time course gene expression data” (co-authors S. Keles and G. Wahba). Kevin will present this work at the 2008 Spring Meeting of the ENAR.

October’07

• Pei-Fen Kuan won the second prize in the poster competition at First Midwest Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Here is Pei-Fen’s award winning poster.
• Kevin and Hyonho also presented at MSCBB. Here are their posters: Kevin’s mixed effects clustering model for multi-species gene expression data; Hyonho’s sparse partial least squares poster.
• Here are pictures from the symposium.