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Biography

Emily B. Fox received the S.B. degree in 2004, M.Eng. degree in 2005, and E.E. degree in 2008 from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently an assistant professor in the Wharton Statistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her Ph.D. was advised by Prof. Alan Willsky in the Stochastic Systems Group, and she recently completed a postdoc in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University working with Profs. Mike West and David Dunson. Emily is a recipient of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, and NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. She has also been awarded the 2009 Leonard J. Savage Thesis Award in Applied Methodology, the 2009 MIT EECS Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize, the 2005 Chorafas Award for superior contributions in research, and the 2005 MIT EECS David Adler Memorial 2nd Place Master's Thesis Prize. Her research interests are in multivariate time series analysis and Bayesian nonparametric methods.


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