Applied Mathematics Ph.D. Student Dane Wilburne Awarded the NSF-EAPSI Fellowship for Summer 2015
Applied mathematics Ph.D. student Dane Wilburne's research proposal for computing Markov bases for multinomial logit models has been selected for funding under the 2015 National Science Foundation East Asia Pacific Summer Institutes (NSF-EAPSI) fellowship program. He will spend the summer of 2015 as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo. During his visit to Japan, he will also participate in the 50th Anniversary of the Groebner Bases Conference in Osaka, organized by the Mathematical Society of Japan.
Wilburne will work with Professor Satoshi Kuriki and Professor Hisayuki Hara on computing a Markov basis for multinomial logistic regression models. This is an important open problem in algebraic statistics, and a solution would provide researchers and statisticians with another non-asymptotic tool for testing model/data fit in applications.
Wilburne is a student of Sonja Petrovic, assistant professor of applied mathematics.
An EAPSI award provides U.S. graduate students in science, engineering, and education: 1) first-hand research experiences in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, or Taiwan; 2) an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and 3) an orientation to the society, culture, and language. EAPSI awards are expected to help students initiate professional relationships to enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts.
