KAUST Ph.D. student wins American Statistical Association paper competition

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Sabrina Vettori, a Ph.D. student co-supervised by KAUST Distinguished Professor Marc Genton, who leads the Spatio-Temporal Statistics & Data Science group, and KAUST Assistant Professor Raphaël Huser, who leads the Extreme Statistics Research Group, won the 2017 Student Paper Competition sponsored by the Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) of the American Statistical Association (ASA). ​
Eligible papers focused on environmental statistics, and the four competition winners presented their papers at an ENVR-sponsored session at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), held from July 29 to August 3 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. JSM is the largest North American gathering of statisticians, and includes participants from ASA, the Statistical Society of Canada, the International Chinese Statistical Association, the International Indian Statistical Association, the Royal Statistical Society, the Korean International Statistical Society and the International Statistical Institute.

Vettori's winning paper entitled "Bayesian clustering and dimension reduction in multivariate air pollution extremes" was co-authored by Huser and Genton.

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