David Brian Dunson (born 1972) is an American

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who is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science, Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2015-07-05. His research focuses on developing statistical methods for complex and high-dimensional data. Particular themes of his work include the use of Bayesian hierarchical models, methods for learning latent structure in complex data, and the development of computationally efficient algorithms for uncertainty quantification. He is currently serving as joint Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. Dunson earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Pennsylvania State University in 1994, and completed his Ph.D. in

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in 1997 from

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

under the supervision of Betz Halloran. He was employed at the

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is located in the Rese ...

from 1997 to 2008, joined the Duke faculty as an adjunct associate professor in 2000, and became a full-time Duke professor in 2008. He also held an adjunct faculty position at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

from 2001 to 2013. Dunson became a

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of the

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in 2007, the same year in which he won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award given annually to a young researcher in health statistics. He became a Fellow of the

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in 2010, and in the same year won the

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. He was named Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in 2013.

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* 1972 births Living people American statisticians Eberly College of Science alumni Emory University alumni Duke University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-statistician-stub