Joyee Ghosh

Associate Professor
Biography

I have been an associate professor (with tenure) in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Iowa since July 2016. I grew up in Kolkata, India, and did my undergraduate studies at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata from 2000 to 2003.

After graduating with a BSc in Statistics in 2003, I completed the first year of a two-year Masters program in Calcutta University. I joined the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University as a graduate student in 2004. I obtained my MS and PhD from Duke University in 2006 and 2008 and then did a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biostatistics at UNC Chapel Hill. I joined the University of Iowa as an assistant professor in August 2010.

Selected professional memberships

  • International Indian Statistical Association (Life member)

 

Research areas
  • Bayesian statistics
  • Biostatistics
  • Computational statistics
  • Markov chain Monte Carlo
  • Model selection
Joyee Ghosh
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Education
PhD, Statistics, Duke University
MS, Statistics, Duke University
BSc, Statistics, St. Xavier's College
Contact Information
Address

University of Iowa
372 Schaeffer Hall (SH)
20 East Washington Street
Iowa City, IA 52240
United States