An efficiency upgrade for an already fast approximation method enables accurate near-real-time modeling of complex systems and large datasets.
Dr. Matt Moores from the University of Wollongong in Australia and Prof. Sigrunn Sorbye from the Arctic University of Norway, are visiting the BayesComp group to continue collaborative projects.
Dr. Denis Rustand presented a talk on using INLA and INLAjoint for research in biometrics at the SFB-JJC: Young Researchers Day in Biometrics of the French Society of Biometrics, on 19 January 2023 in Rennes.
A book chapter based on the use of INLA for efficient Bayesian modeling of interval-censored survival and reliability data has been published in the book Emerging Topics in Modeling Interval-Censored Survival Data<
Prof. Haavard Rue and Dr. Elias Krainski presented a course on Bayesian spatial and spatio-temporal modeling with R-INLA at the Public University of Navarre (UPNA) in Pamplona, Spain during 25-27 January 2023.
Prof. Haavard Rue and Dr. Elias Krainski presented a workshop for INLA users and developers titled "INLA: past, present and future" at the University of Glasgow during 18-19 January.
Esmail Abdul Fattah, a KAUST Ph.D. candidate in statistics, won a poster award in the "junior-BayesComp-ISBA" category at the 30th meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA 2022) held from June 26 to July 1 in Montreal, Canada.
Some members of the INLA team presented an INLA short course to the Biostatistics group at the Bordeaux population health center of INSERM and the University of Bordeaux.
KAUST Professor of Statistics Håvard Rue has been honored by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) for his "substantial and significant contributions in the area of efficient and scalable computational techniques for the data analysts' toolbox."
Fifteen KAUST faculty members and one postdoctoral researcher rank among the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers from around the world, according to Clarivate Web of Science Group, a global leader of academic research analytics. The list names individuals whose work accounts for the top 1% of research cited worldwide.
Let’s discover the world of the statisticians at KAUST and be ready to be amazed by their cutting-edge research!
Prof. Haavard Rue was invited as a keynote speaker to the "Advancing knowledge about spatial modeling, infectious diseases, environment and health" virtual workshop organized by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, during June 2020.
Prof. Haavard Rue was invited as a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Sciences, and Statistics (ICoMCoS) 2020, organized by Universitas Airlangga in Indonesia during 29-30 September.
Together with Dr. Janet van Niekerk, they presented a virtual workshop on R-INLA and its applications.
Prof. Rue is in London for a few days in December for the 12th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological
Statistics (CMStatistics 2019), and a visit to research collaborators at
the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, as well as some collaborators at Imperial College.
Prof. Haavard Rue has been acknowledged as one of the World's most highly cited researchers on the Highly Cited Researchers 2019 list from the Web of Science Group.