Current BESTA members
Dr. Brani Vidakovic
Dr. Vidakovic is the director of BESTA. His research interests include Wavelets, General Bayesian Statistical Methodology, Statistical Modeling and Simulation of High Frequency Data, Functional Data Analysis, Multiscale Statistical Modeling, Denoising, Assessment of Scaling, Analysis of Signals and Images, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Statistics of Turbulent Flows, and Statistical Decision Theory.
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Dr. Melinda Higgins
Dr. Melinda Higgins is a principal research scientist in the Georgia Tech Research Institute and is the primary technical lead and program manager of the NGB Technology Consortium. Dr. Higgins is also jointly employed as the Senior Statistician and an Assistant Research Professor at Emory University. She was also recently elected to be the Secretary of the Georgia chapter of the American Statistical Association. Higgins fields of specialty include: chemical/statistical/image pattern recognition, multivariate statistical analysis, geospatial statistical analysis and decision support systems, simultaneous spatial/spectral signatures analysis, as well as data and information fusion.
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Sky Lee
I am currently a Ph.D. student at ISyE at Georgia Tech, since Fall 2006. I am interested in high frequency data analysis and classification, with advisor Dr. Brani Vidakovic. I worked as a software researcher in Tmax Soft and Samsung Networks in South Korea (2001 - 2006). I obtained my M.S. in Industrial Engineering at KAIST in 2000 and my B.S. in Industrial Management with minor in Electrical Engineering at KAIST in 1998.
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Xavier Le Faucheur
I am currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since 2005, I have worked as a research assistant under Dr. Allen Tannenbaum's advisement and started working with Dr. Brani Vidakovic in 2007. My research interests are in Medical Image Processing and Computer Vision, Statistical Shape Analysis using Wavelets and Statistical Data Analysis. In 2005 I graduated with a dual Masters degree from Georgia Tech and Supelec, a leading engineering school in France.
Hin Kyeol Woo
I am a Ph.D. student of ISyE at Georgia Tech, since Fall 2005. My thesis advisor is Dr. Lu and I started working with Dr. Vidakovic in 2008. From 2006 to 2007, I worked with UPS under the advice of Dr. Lu and Dr. Vande Vate. I have an MS.Stat in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2006 and B.S in Applied Mathematics from KAIST, South Korea in 2005.
Lucy Petrova
I'm currently an undergraduate student majoring in Biology at Georgia State University. Through my participation in the SURE program at Emory and the RIMMES program at GSU, I've gained research experience in developmental biology and computational neuroscience. For two semesters, I was also involved in behavioral neuroscience research at GSU. I plan on continuing my participation in research after I graduate in Summer 2008 and eventually attend graduate school. I am interested in molecular biology, neuroscience and the applications of mathematics and statistics in biomedical research.
Karan Raturi
I am currently a third-year undergraduate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. My interests lie primarily in pharmaceuticals, health policy, and global health. I hope to attend medical school in the Fall of 2009.
Muhammad Raza
Currently, I am a 4th year undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering Department at Georgia Institute of Technology. After graduation, I plan to work in an industry. After gaining some industry experience, my plan is to attend a graduate school.