Katerina Kechris
{{Short description|American statistician, professor of biostatistics}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Katerina Joanna Kechris
| birth_date =
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = University of California, Los Angeles (B.S.)
University of California, Berkeley (M.S., Ph.D.)
| workplaces = Colorado School of Public Health
| thesis_title = Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences
| thesis_year = 2003
}}
Katerina Joanna Kechris is an American statistician, a professor of biostatistics and informatics in the Colorado School of Public Health, and a regional president of the International Biometric Society. Her research focuses on the use of omics data to study relations between genetics and disease.{{r|omics}}
Education
Kechris graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997,
and completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.{{r|iqb}} Her dissertation, supervised by Peter J. Bickel, was Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences.{{r|bickel}} Before joining the Colorado School of Public Health, she did postdoctoral research with Hao Li at the University of California, San Francisco.{{r|lilab}}
Recognition
Kechris was elected regional president for the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society for 2019.{{r|wnar}}
She was selected to become a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2019, "for contributions to high-dimensional biological data analysis, team science and training and mentoring of students". {{r|fasa|fasa2}} She served as Section Chair for the ASA Section on Statistics and Genomics and Genetics in 2021.
References
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External links
- [https://kechrislab.github.io/ Home page]
- {{Google Scholar id|ywY1-w8AAAAJ}}
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