Dr. Fan Bu (PhD 2021) and Dr. Tommaso Rigon (postdoc 2019-2020) were recently named Blackwell-Rosenbluth Awardees, giving Duke 1/3 of the class of 2024 winners! Bu completed her dissertation under the direction of Prof. Alex Volfovsky and is now Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at University of Michigan. Rigon spent time at Duke in 2019-2020 conducting research with Professors David Dunson and Amy Herring and is now Assistant Professor of Statistics at University of Milano-Bicocca.
The Blackwell-Rosenbluth Awards honor the groundbreaking works at the foundation of modern Bayesian theory and computation made by Drs. David Harold Blackwell and Arianna Wright Rosenbluth. Six awardees are honored each year for their overall contribution to the field and community.
Congratulations to Fan and Tommy!
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