Vanja Dukic is an expert in computational statistics and mathematical

epidemiology Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidenc ...

who works as a professor of

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at the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado syst ...

. Her research includes work on using internet

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access patterns to track diseases, and on the effects of climate change on the spread of diseases. Dukic earned a bachelor's degree in finance and actuarial mathematics from

Bryant University Bryant University is a private university in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It has two colleges, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Business, and is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. History Butler Exc ...

in 1995.Home page and brief biography
University of Colorado, retrieved 2016-07-09. She completed her doctorate at

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in 2001, under the joint supervision of

biostatistician Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

s Constantine Gatsonis and Joseph Hogan. She worked as a faculty member in the biostatistics program of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

from 2001 to 2010, before moving to Colorado. In 2015 she was elected as a

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of the American Statistical Association "for important contributions to Bayesian modeling of complex processes and analysis of Big Data, substantive and collaborative research in infectious diseases and climate change, and service to the profession, including excellence in editorial work.".

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