2017 Brian Williams Los Alamos National Lab 2016 David Ruppert Professor of Engineering, Cornell University A Bayesian Multivariate Functional Dynamic Linear Model 2015 Jim Berger Professor of Statistics, Duke University Bayesian Subgroup Analysis 2014 Kathryn Chaloner Professor of Statistics, University of Iowa Bayesian Methods for Study Design and Statistical Analysis 2013 Marie Davidian NCSU William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics, Duke University Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics A Robust Method for Estimating Optimal Treatment Regimes 2012 Tailen Hsing University of Michigan Nonparametric Estimation of the Variogram and its Spectrum 2011 Dennis Lin University Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University BIG Statistics 2010 Steve Marron Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Object Oriented Data Analysis 2009 Jianqing Fan Princeton University Ultrahigh Dimensional Variable Selection: Beyond the Linear Model 2008 Jayanta Ghosh Professor at Purdue University, Professor Emeritus at Indian Statistical Institute Motivation and Convergence of Two "New" Fast Algorithms for Estimating the Mixing Distribution in Mixture Models 2007 Richard Davis Colorado State Univesity Heavy Tails and Financial Time Series Models Past UGA/Clemson Joint Seminars