Kimberly F.
Sellers
Ph.Doctor
Assistant Professor of Statistics Department of Mathematics
Department
of Mathematics Phone: 202-687-8829
306 St.
Mary’s Hall Fax: 202-687-6214
Georgetown
University kfs7@georgetown.edu
Washington, DC 20057
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/kfs7
Education
Ph.D.,
Statistics The George Washington University (Washington, DC)
May
2001
M.A.,
Mathematics University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
August 1998
B.S.,
Mathematics University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
August 1994
Work Experience
08/06 – present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC.
09/04 - 07/06
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology,
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
08/01 - 08/04
Visiting Assistant Professor, Statistics Department, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA.
08/00 - 08/01
Visiting Graduate Research Assistant, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM.
09/99 - 05/01
Graduate Research Assistant, Institute for Reliability and Risk
Analysis, The George Washington University, Washington DC.
09/98 - 12/00
Graduate Teaching Assistant, The George Washington University,
Washington DC.
05/00 - 08/00
Graduate Research Assistant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
NM.
06/98 - 06/99
Statistical Analyst, Merkle Direct Technologies, Incorporated, Lanham
MD.
01/98 - 06/98
Research Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park MD.
09/95 - 01/98
Teaching Assistant, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland,
College Park MD.
09/96 - 08/97
Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Mathematics Department, University of
Maryland, College Park MD.
Refereed
Publications
Sellers, K.F.
and Singpurwalla, N.D. (2007) Many-valued Logic in Vague and
Multi-state Stochastic Systems (submitted).
Sellers, K.F.,
Miecznikowski, J.C., Viswanathan, S., Eddy, W.F., and Minden, J.
(2007) "Lights, Camera, Action: Quantitative Analysis of Systematic
Variation in Two-dimensional Difference Gel Electrophoresis",
Electrophoresis, 28 (18),
3324-3332.
Anderson, PD, Mehta, N, Wolfe, ML, Hinkle, CC, Pruscino, L, Comiskey,
LL, Tabita-Martinez, J, Sellers, KF, Rickels, MR, Ahima, RS,
Reilly, MP (2007) Innate Immunity Modulates Adipokines in Humans,
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 92 (6),
2272-2279.
Makar,
G,
Weiner, M,
Kimmel, S,
Bennett,
D, Burke, A, Yang, Y, Han, X, Sellers, K, Nessel, L, Lewis, J
(2007)
Incidence and Predictors of Abnormal Liver Associated Enzymes in
Patients with Atrial Fibrillation in a Routine Clinical Care
Population, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (in press).
Gimotty P.A., Elder D.E., Fraker D.L., Botbyl J.D., Sellers K.,
Elenitsas R., Ming M.E., Schuchter L., Spitz F.R., Czerniecki B.J.,
Guerry D. (2007) Identification of high risk patients among those
diagnosed with thin cutaneous melanomas, Journal of Clinical
Oncology, 25 (9), 1129-1134.
Paez,
GL, Sellers, KF, Band, M, Acland, GM, Zangerl, B and Aguirre,
GA (2006) Analysis of Gene Expression Profile on Normal Retina and
Brain Using a Retinal cDNA Microarrays, Molecular Vision, 12,
1048-1056.
Sellers, KF
(2001). A Definition of Vague Coherent Systems, Contemporary
Mathematics -- Council for African American Researchers in the
Mathematical Sciences: Volume IV. Sixth Conference for African
American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences June 27-30, 2000,
Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. N'Guérékata, G. and
Nkwanta, A., eds. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI.
284: 43-51.
Sellers, KF
(2000) Vague Coherent Systems (Preliminary Report), MMR 2000:
Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in
Reliability (Methodology, Practice and Inference), Université Victor
Segalen-Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France, July 4-7, 2000 Abstracts Book,
Volume 2. p. 952-955.
Book
Chapters
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Sellers, KF,
Booker, JM (2002). Chapter 4: Bayesian Methods, Fuzzy Logic and
Probability Applications. Ross, T.J., Booker, J.M., and
Parkinson, W.J., eds. ASA-SIAM Publications; Philadelphia, PA.,
73-86.
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Ross, TJ, Sellers, KF, Booker, JM, and Parkinson, WJ,
(2002). Chapter 5: Considerations for Using Fuzzy Set Theory and
Probability Models, Fuzzy Logic and Probability Applications.
Ross, T.J., Booker, J.M. and Parkinson, W.J., eds. ASA-SIAM
Publications; Philadelphia, PA., 87-103.
Technical
Reports
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Sellers, KF,
Miecznikowski, J, and Eddy, WF (2004) Removal of Systematic
Variation in Genetic Microarray Data, Technical report 779,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA.
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Bement, TR, Booker, JM, Sellers, KF and Singpurwalla, ND (2001).
Linking Probability Theory and Fuzzy Sets -- A Study in
Uncertainty Assessment. Technical report LA-UR-01-4679, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. Submitted to: 43rd
Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Denver
CO, April 22-25, 2002.
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Bement, TR, Booker, JM, Sellers, KF, and Singpurwalla, ND
(2000). Membership Functions and Probability Measures of Fuzzy
Sets. Technical report LA-UR-00-3660, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.
Non-refereed
Publications
1.
Sellers, KF
(2001). Vague Coherent Systems, Ph.D. dissertation.
2.
Sellers, KF
(1998). Iterative Methods for Computing Mean First Passage Times of
Markov Chains, M.A. Thesis.
Abstracts
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Sellers, K
(2007) Background Correction, Denoising, and Normalization
Techniques for Preprocessing Mass Spectrometry Data, Hawaii
International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related
Fields, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Laderas, T, Mongoue-Tchokote, S, Rajaraman, V, Sellers, K,
Bystrom, C, McWeeney, S (2006) A metrics-based low-level
preprocessing framework for proteomics data, BioC2006:
BioConductor Conference, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle,
WA.
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McConnell, P, Haney, R, Mungal, S, Peedin, M, Agarwal, P,
Cuticchia, AJ, Fenstermacher, D, Sellers, K, Street, C, McWeeney,
S, Rajaraman, V, Laderas, T, Lin, S, Borchers, C (2006)
RProteomics: An Application for Analyzing Mass Spectrometry
Proteomics Data, National Cancer Institute Cancer Biomedical
Informatics Grid (caBIG) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
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Laderas, T, Mongoue-Tchokote, S, Rajaraman, V, Sellers, K,
McWeeney, S (2006) A Diagnostic Test Suite for the RProteomics
Statistical Routines, National Cancer Institute Cancer
Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Annual Meeting, Washington,
DC.
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Gimotty, PA, Botbyl, J, Sellers, K, Ming, ME, Elder, DE, Guerry,
D (2006) Improved Staging Criteria for Thin (< 1.00mm) Invasive
Cutaneous Melanomas, Advances in the Understanding and Treatment
of Melanoma, Keystone Symposia 2006, Santa Fe, NM.
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Mehta, NN, Anderson, PD, Wolfe, MP, Rickels, M, Zemel, B,
Hinkle, C, Tabita-Martinez, J, Ahima, R, Sellers, K, Rader, DJ,
Reilly, MP (2006) Adiposity and Atherogenic Inflammatory
Response to Endotoxin in Humans, American College of Cardiology
Session 2006, Atlanta, GA.
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Anderson, PD, Mehta, NN, Wolfe, MP, McMahon, K, Hinkle, C,
Comiskey, L, Tabita-Martinez, J, Sellers, K, Ahima, R, Rader,
DJ, Reilly, MP (2005) Pathophysiology of Insulin Resistance in
Human Inflammation, American Heart Association 2005 Scientific
Sessions, Dallas, TX.
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Anderson, PD, Mehta, NN, Wolfe, MP, McMahon, K, Hinkle, C,
Comiskey, L, Tabita-Martinez, J, Sellers, K, Ahima, R, Rader,
DJ, Reilly, MP (2005) Atherogenic Changes in Apo-B Lipoproteins
During Human Inflammation, American Heart Association 2005
Scientific Sessions, Dallas, TX.
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Sellers, KF,
Miecznikowski, JC, Eddy, WF (2005) Comparison of Normalization
Techniques for cDNA Microarray Data, International Biometric
Society Eastern North American Region Program and Abstracts
Book, Austin, TX.
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Miecznikowski, JC, Eddy, WF, Minden, JS, and Sellers, KF (2005)
A Method for Spot Finding in Two-Dimensional Images,
International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region
Program and Abstracts Book, Austin, TX.
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Anderson, PD, Mehta, NN, Wolfe, MP, McMahon, K, Hinkle, C,
Comiskey, L, Tabita-Martinez, J, Sellers, K, Ahima, R, Rader,
DJ, Reilly, MP (2005) Adipokines in Human Endotoxemial Clinical
Research Meeting of the American Federation for Medical
Research, Washington, DC.
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de
la Llera- Moya, M, Byrne, M, Wolfe, M, Hinkle, C,
Tabita-Martinez, J, Sellers, K, Rothblat, G, Rader, D, Reilly, M
(2005) Inflammation and the reverse cholesterol transport
pathway in humans,6th Annual Meeting of Arteriosclerosis
Thrombosis and Vascular Biology; Washington DC.
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Sellers, KF,
Miecznikowski, JC, Viswanathan, S, Eddy, WF, Minden, J (2004)
Systematic Variation in Difference Gel Electrophoresis Data
International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region
Program and Abstracts Book, Pittsburgh, PA.
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Sellers, KF
(2002) System Reliability and Safety Involving Imprecise
Measures", 6th Annual Probabilistic Safety Assessment and
Management Conference, Puerto Rico.
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Sellers, KF,
Miecznikowski, JC, Eddy, WF (2002) Statistical Analysis on
Microarray Data, SIAM Symposium on Computational Models and
Simulation for Intra-cellular Processes Abstract Book,
Washington, DC.
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Sellers, KF
(2001) System Reliability of Imprecise Systems, SIAM Annual
Meetings, San Diego, CA.
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Sellers, KF
(2000) Vague Coherent Systems, Sixth Conference for
African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences,
Morgan State University.
Invited Talks
Research:
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"Proteomic
Data Analysis 101", Caucus for Women in Statistics Breakfast
Roundtable, JSM 2007, Salt Lake City, UT, August 2007
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"Modeling
and Spot Detection of Two-Dimensional Gels", Interface 2007,
Philadelphia, PA, May 2007.
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"Image Normalization and Feature Detection in Proteomic
Studies", Mathematics Departmental Seminar, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC, February 2006.
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"Image
Normalization and Feature Detection in Proteomic Studies",
Mathematics and Statistics Departmental Seminar, American
University, Washington, DC, February 2006.
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"Removing
Variation: The Search for the Truth", Applied Mathematics and
Statistics Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County,
July 2005.
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"Modeling Variation and Spot Detection in Protein Gel Images",
13th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Ottawa, Canada,
July 2005.
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"Modeling and Spot Detection of Two-Dimensional Gels", Center
for Genetics and Complex Traits (CGACT), University of
Pennsylvania, December 2004.
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"Systematic
Variation in Microarrays and Two-Dimensional Gels", Statistics
Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program, Carnegie
Mellon University, June 2004.
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"Detecting
Protein Differences via the Difference Gel Electrophoresis
Process", Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
University of Pennsylvania, May 2004.
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"Systematic Variation in Difference Gel Electrophoresis Data",
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Villanova University, April
2004.
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"Systematic Variation in Difference Gel Electrophoresis Data",
Department of Mathematics, Haverford College, April 2004.
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"It's All Vague: Component and System Reliability under
Degradation", DuPont Engineering and Technology, Wilmington, DE,
February 2004.
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"Accounting
for Systematic Variation in Difference Gel Electrophoresis",
Ohio State University Statistics Departmental Seminar, January
2004.
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"Accounting
for Systematic Variation in Difference Gel Electrophoresis",
University of Maryland Baltimore County Applied Mathematics and
Statistics Departmental Seminar, December 2003.
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"CSI: Collecting Statistics for Information", StatFest at North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 2003.
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"Quantitative Analysis of Two-dimensional Difference Gel
Electrophoresis", North Carolina State University Statistics
Departmental Seminar, November 2003.
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"Systematic Variation in Two-dimensional Difference Gel
Electrophoresis", University of Pittsburgh Departmental Seminar,
November 2003.
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"Using
Imprecise Measures to Study Component and System Reliability",
NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Presentations by Recent
Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences, Joint
Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD, January 2003.
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"Systematic
Variation in Genetic Microarray Data", SIAM Symposium on
Computational Models and Simulation for Intra-cellular
Processes, Washington, DC, October 2002.
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"System
Reliability under Precise and Imprecise Measures", Statistics
Colloquium, George Mason University, Alexandria, Virginia,
February 2001.
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"System Reliability under Precise and Imprecise Measures",
Statistics Department Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 2001.
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"Vague
Coherent Systems", ISDS Research Seminar, Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina, November 2000.
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"Vague
Coherent Systems", MMR 2000: Second International Conference on
Mathematical Methods in Reliability (Methodology, Practice and
Inference). Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2. Bordeaux,
France, July 2000.
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"A
Definition and Structural Properties of Vague Coherent Systems",
Systems Reliability Seminar, Sandia National Laboratory.
Albuquerque, NM. June 2000.
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"Early Work Regarding Many Valued Systems and Vagueness in
Propositional Logic", Network Systems Consortium Meeting, The
George Washington University, November 1999.
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"Iterative Methods for Computing Mean First Passage Times of
Markov Chains", Women In Mathematics (WIM) Graduate Student
Seminar, University of Maryland College Park, March 1998.
Other:
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"The
Road Through Academia", StatFest 2007, Indianapolis, IN, April
2007.
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"The McNair Program: How Does it Prepare You for Graduate School
and Academic Life Beyond?", Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate
Program Orientation, University of Pennsylvania, May 2006.
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"10 Habits of Highly Successful McNair Scholars," Ronald E.
McNair Closing Banquet, University of Maryland, College Park,
MD, July 2005.
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"The McNair Program's Preparation for Graduate School: A Case
Study," Ronald E. McNair Orientation, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May 2005.
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"The
Path to the Ph.D.," GE Fellows Program, Barnard College, New
York, NY, April 2005.
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"The Journey to the Professoriate and Beyond" (panelist),
National Research Conference for McNair Scholars and
Undergraduate Researchers, March 2005.
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"Keeping
my `Eyes on the Prize': What it took to obtain a Ph.D., and what
I'm doing now that I have it", Mathematics and Computer Science
Department, Lincoln University, Lincoln, PA, November 2004.
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"The
McNair Experience, and its Influence on Academic Pursuits"
(panelist), National Research Conference for McNair Scholars and
Undergraduate Researchers, March 2004.
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"Minority
Life in the Academy: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", 2003-2004
Inter-University Graduate Students of Color Dinner/Speaker
Series, Pittsburgh, PA, January 2004.
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"Careers in Biostatistics" (panelist), Diversity Day, 2003 ENAR
Spring Meeting, Tampa, FL, March 2003.
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"The After-life: Life with a Ph.D.", National Research
Conference for McNair Scholars and Undergraduate Researchers,
March 2002, March 2003.
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"The Graduate School Experience" (panelist), National Research
Conference for McNair Scholars and Undergraduate Researchers,
March 2000, March 2001.
Invited Lectures
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"Introduction to S-plus/R", Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology Graduate Program, University of Pennsylvania,
September 2005.
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"What is Algebraic Statistics?", The Tenth Annual Conference for
African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS
X), Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), June 2004.
·
Part
I: Contingency Tables
·
Part
II: Application: Statistical Disclosure Limitation
·
Part
III: Computational Algebra
Contributed Talks
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"Background
Correction, Denoising, and Normalization Techniques for
Preprocessing Mass Spectrometry Data",
Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and
Related Fields, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2007.
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"Comparison
of Normalization Techniques for cDNA Microarray Data",
International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (ENAR)
Meeting, Austin, TX, March 2005.
-
"Systematic
Variation in Difference Gel Electrophoresis Data", ENAR Meeting,
Pittsburgh, PA, March 2004.
-
"System Reliability and Safety Involving Imprecise Measures",
6th Annual Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management
Conference (PSAM6), Puerto Rico, June 2002 (submitted and
accepted).
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"Preliminary Results Regarding Vague Coherent Systems", MMR
2000: Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in
Reliability (Methodology, Practice and Inference). Université
Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2. Bordeaux, France, July 2000.
Conference Participation
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Infinite
Possibilities Conference 2007: Steering Committee member,
Registration Committee Chairperson
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Organizer (submitted with
Drs. Jenny Barrett
and Somnath Datta), “Statistical analyses of proteomic data”,
XXIVth International Biometric Conference, Dublin, Ireland, July
2008.
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Moderator, 2006 NAM
Mathfest, Washington, DC, November 2006.
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Invited Panelist,
"Alumni Sessions: Engineering/Mathematics/Statistics", 7th Annual
Gates Millennium Scholars Leadership Conference: Building a
Community of Leaders, Chantilly, VA, September 2006.
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Invited Discussant,
"Challenges Facing the Next Generation of Applied Statisticians,"
Joint Statistics Meetings 2006, Seattle, WA, August 2006.
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Selected
Participant, ENAR 2004 Junior Researcher's Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA,
March 2004.
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Invited
Participant, ARCC workshop: Computational Algebraic Statistics,
December 2003.
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Organizer and
chair, Statistical Analysis on Microarray Data (minisymposium), SIAM
Symposium on Computational Models and Simulation for Intra-cellular
Processes, Washington, DC, October 2002.
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Poster presenter,
AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Postdoctoral
Mathematicians, SIAM Annual Meetings, San Diego, California, July
2001.
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Poster presenter,
Sixth Annual Conference for African-American Researchers in the
Mathematical Sciences. Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD.
June 2000.
Professional Activity
o
Electrophoresis
o
International Statistical Review
o
Journal of
Computational Biology
o
Journal of
the American Statistical Association
o
Naval
Research Logistics
o
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O, Journal
of Risk and Reliability
o
Statistics
in Medicine
o
The
American Statistician
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Graduate Program Executive Committee member, Georgetown University
Department of Mathematics, Fall 2006 – present
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Hiring
Committee member, Georgetown University Department of Mathematics,
Fall 2006 – present
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Chair,
Statistics Committee, Georgetown University Department of
Mathematics, Fall 2007 – present
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Departmental Academic Advisor, Georgetown University Department of
Mathematics, Spring 2007 – present
o
Graduate
students: 7
o
Undergraduate students: 4
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Reviewer, 2007 Lombardi Research Fair, February 2007
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Ad-hoc
subcommittee to discuss Final Examination policy, March 2007
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Panelist, Claire Booth Luce Luncheon, May 2007
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Graduate Program Executive Committee member, University of
Pennsylvania Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Fall 2004
- Summer 2006
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Masters Data Analysis Examination Committee member, Carnegie Mellon
University Statistics Department, Fall 2001, Spring 2003
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Diversity Committee member, International Biometric Society (ENAR),
2002 - present
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Diversity Committee member, Carnegie Mellon University Statistics
Department, Fall 2001 - Summer 2004
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Ph.D. Thesis Committee member (in alphabetical order):
o
Fang Chen
(CMU, defended February 2004)
o
Jeffrey
Miecznikowski (CMU, defended January 2006)
o
Aleksandra
Slavkovic (CMU, defended August 2004)
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D.Sc.
Examining Committee member: Seung Byeon (GWU, defended December
2001)
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M.A.
Examining Committee member: Rachel Hammond (UPenn, defended March
2006)
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Supervision of Ph.D. Advanced Data Analysis Projects:
o
Jeffrey
Miecznikowski (2002), Analysis of fluorescence two-dimensional
difference gel electrophoresis technology (co-advised with William F.
Eddy)
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MSCE
Biostatistics Advisor (in alphabetical order): Reena Duseja, George
Makar, Pedro Sanchez, and Bryan Upham
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Supervision of Graduate Statistical Practice Projects:
o
Pierpaolo
Rinaldo, Linqiao Zhao (2004), co-advised with William F. Eddy
o
Amanda Artis (Summer 2004): Comparison of Statistical Methods for
Normalizing cDNA Microarray Data
o
Rob
Delmont, Meena Soneji, Gene Vladimirov (Spring 2004): Spotted array
normalization
o
Tara Kalra, Sameer Rathod, Shamil Patel, Sulaiman Malik (Spring 2003):
DNA Microarray
o
Vyacheslav Klimov, Jonathan Knotwell, Darya Leyzarovich (Spring 2002):
Bias Assessment of Microarray Chip Based Genetic Studies
o
Scott Benecke, Benjamin Kay, Jennifer Sample (Spring 2002): Predicting
Charitable Donations with Demographics
o
Linje Boston, Michael Handke, Jenny Semmes (Spring 2002): Time and
Spatial Analyses for Sexually Transmitted
Diseases
(co-advised with Brian Junker)
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Judge, Research presentation competition, National Research
Conference for McNair Scholars and Undergraduate Researchers, March
2001 - March 2003
Funding
As Principal Investigator (PI):
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"Automated
Low-Level Analysis For Differential Gel Electrophoresis Data", SPORE
on Skin Cancer at Penn and Wistar, $10,000, 07/1/05 - 06/30/06.
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"Getting Something
from Nothing: Assessing Information Gain from Lack of Information
due to Cell Suppression" (with Elizabeth Arnold), NISS, $10,000,
09/1/03 - 05/31/04.
As Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI):
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"Retinal gene
expression and the retinome" (with Barbara Zangerl), University of
Pennsylvania University Research Foundation, $30,000, 01/1/06 -
12/31/06.
As Statistician/Biostatistician:
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"Inflammation, the
metabolic syndrome and atherosclerosis" (Muredach Reilly, PI), NIH,
10/1/04 - 06/30/06.
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"SPORE in Skin
Cancer / Biometrics Core" (Meenhard Herlyn, Phyllis Gimotty, PI),
NIH-Wistar, 09/30/01 - 06/30/06
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"Human
Melanoma-Etiology, Progression and Therapy / Biostatistics Core" (Meenhard
Herlyn, David Elder, PI), NIH, 04/06/90 - 06/30/06.
-
"caBIG RProteomics
Project, Phase I" (David Fenstermacher, PI), NIH, 07/01/05 -
01/31/06.
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"Reactive oxygen
species and anti-oxidantsin ALI" (Arin Fisher, PI), NIH, 07/01/05 -
06/30/06.
As Consultant:
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"Inflammation, the
metabolic syndrome and atherosclerosis" (Muredach Reilly, PI), NIH,
07/1/06 - 05/31/07.
Honors and Awards
Cambridge Who's Who Among Executive and Professional Women (2007)
NSF-VIGRE
postdoctoral fellowship (2001-2004)
Who's
Who in Sciences Higher Education (2004)
Gates
Millennium Scholars Program recipient (2000-2001)
Finalist, Burroughs Wellcome Career Awards at the Scientific
Interface (2002)
The
George Washington University Graduate Fellowship/Teaching
Assistantship (1998-2000)
NASA
Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE) Fellowship (2001)
NSF
Travel Grant to attend Nonparametrics in Large, Multidimensional
Data Mining Conference (2001)
AWM
Travel Grant to attend SIAM Annual Meeting (2001)
Solomon Kullback Outstanding Graduate Student Prize (1999)
University of Maryland Graduate Support Grant (1994-1998)
University of Maryland Corporate Scholars Program (1998)
Computer Skills
Operating
Systems:
UNIX (Solaris), Windows 95 (and later)
Platforms:
SunSparc workstations, IBM PC and compatibles
Software:
S-plus, R, FIASCO, SAS, Minitab, SPSS, Maple, Matlab, Mathematica, LaTeX,
PCTeX, WinEdt, Microsoft Excel, Harvard Graphics, Microsoft Power Point,
Netscape Composer, HTML
Professional Societies
American
Statistical Association (Statistical Computing, Statistical Graphics),
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Eastern North Atlantic Region (ENAR)
of the International Biometric Society, Bernoulli Society, Caucus for
Women in Statistics
Teaching Experience
Instructor:
Outlined syllabus and website; prepared lectures, homework, lab
assignments and examinations; organized discussion of course and related
material; led computer instruction, if applicable; graded examinations,
quizzes, and homework; handled all administrative duties
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Mathematical
Statistics (MATH 503), Georgetown University, Spring 2007
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Probability &
Statistics (MATH 040), Georgetown University, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
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Biostatistical
Methods II (BSTA 631), University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2006
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Engineering
Statistics and Quality Control (36-220), Carnegie Mellon University,
Spring 2004
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Advanced Data
Analysis II (36-758), Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2003
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Algebraic
Statistics (36-835), Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2003
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Statistics for Lab
Sciences (36-247), Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2003
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Engineering
Statistics and Quality Control (36-220), Carnegie Mellon University,
Fall 2002
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Introduction to
Statistics in Social Science (STAT 53), The George Washington
University, Fall 2000
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Pre-calculus (MATH
115), University of Maryland College Park, Fall 1997
Co-instructor:
Outlined syllabus, prepared and led lecture instruction including
software usage, wrote and graded examinations and homework, collected
outside projects and mentored students toward project completion,
handled administrative duties
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Advanced Data
Analysis I (36-401), Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2001 with
Brian Junker
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Advanced Data
Analysis II (36-402), Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2002 with
Brian Junker
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Statistics for Lab
Sciences (36-247), Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2002 with Rob
Kass
Graduate
Teaching Assistant/Grader:
Wrote and graded assignments for graduate and upper-level undergraduate
courses, and offered substitute instruction when necessary; assisted
with administrative duties
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Mathematical
Statistics I (STAT 201), The George Washington University, Fall
1998, Fall 1999
-
Mathematical
Statistics II (STAT 202), The George Washington University, Spring
1999, Spring 2000
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Introduction to
Mathematical Statistics (STAT 157), The George Washington
University, Fall 1999
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Stochastic
Processes (STAT 273), The George Washington University, Spring 2000
Graduate
Teaching Assistant:
Led discussion sections and computer instruction, wrote and graded
quizzes and examinations, assisted direction of student projects.
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Introduction
Business and Economic Statistics (STAT 51), The George Washington
University, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999
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Introduction to
Statistics in Social Science (STAT 53), The George Washington
University, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000
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Elementary Calculus
I (MATH 220), University of Maryland College Park, Fall 1995,
Spring, 1996
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant:
Led discussion sections, graded homework assignments.
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featured in the September 2007 issue of Georgetown University
Georgetown College’s online Research Magazine: Science, “Dr.
Kimberly Sellers Sees Numbers in Images”
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mentioned in July 2007 Amstat News article, "Lilly Hosts StatFest
2007"
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featured in June 25, 2004 Berkeley Daily Planet, "Black Math PhD's
Hold UC Meet to Swell Ranks"
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featured in April 2004 Black Issues in Higher Education, "Training
for the Ph.D.: National conference brings together first-generation
college students on the road to a doctoral degree"
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mentioned in October 2001 SIAM News, "Grad Students, Settling into
the Applied Math Community, Find Inspiration at SIAM's Fifth
Diversity Workshop"
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