Mary Lai O. Salvana

Biography

Mary Lai Salvana is an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Connecticut. She earned her Ph.D. in statistics from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. Before joining the University of Connecticut, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied mathematics from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines in 2015 and 2016, respectively.

Her research focuses on the statistical modeling of extreme and catastrophic events, risk and disasters, with an emphasis on spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, environmental and computational statistics, large-scale data science, and high-performance computing.