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)
Selected awards and honors
- Featured in AMSTAT NEWS: Celebrating Women in Statistics 2020, American Statistical Association, 2020
- Career Development Award, University of Iowa, 2018
- Special Invited Speaker for the session “Young Researchers – Special Invited Speakers" (featured session with 45 minutes talks), 2014 International Indian Statistical Association, Riverside, California, 2014
- UNC Chapel Hill 2009-2010 Postdoctoral Scholar Award for Research Excellence, University of North Carolina, 2009
- Winner, student paper competition organized by Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) of American Statistical Association (ASA), 2008
Selected publications
- Li, X., Ghosh, J. & Villarini, G. (2021). NegbinBVS R Package.
- Ghosh, J. (2019). Cauchy and other shrinkage priors for logistic regression in the presence of separation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 11(6)(e1478).
- Villarini, G., Luitel, B., Vecchi, G. D. & Ghosh, J. (2019). Multi-model ensemble forecasting of North Atlantic tropical cyclone activity. Climate Dynamics, 53(12), 7461-7477.
- Dawson, J., O'Shea, A. & Ghosh, J. (2019). Reducing high-frequency time series data in driving studies. International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) 2019 Satellite Conference Proceedings Paper.
- *** Ghosh, J., *** Li, Y. & Mitra, R. (2018). On the use of Cauchy prior distributions for Bayesian logistic regression. Bayesian Analysis, 13(2), 359-383.
- Ghosh, J., Ghattas, A. E. (2015). Bayesian variable selection under collinearity. The American Statistician, 69(3), 165-173. DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1031827.
- Ghosh, J., Reiter, J. P. (2013). Secure Bayesian model averaging for horizontallypartitioned data. Statistics and Computing, 23(3), 311-322. DOI: 10.1007/s11222-011-9312-6.
- Clyde, M. A., Ghosh, J. & Littman, M. (2011). Bayesian adaptive sampling for variable selection and model averaging. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20(1), 80-101. DOI: 10.1198/jcgs.2010.09049.
- Ghosh, J., Herring, A. H. & Siega-Riz, A. (2011). Bayesian variable selection for latent class models. Biometrics, 67, 917-925. DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01502.x.
- Ghosh, J., Clyde, M. A. (2011). Rao-Blackwellization for Bayesian variable selection and model averaging in linear and binary regression: A novel data augmentation approach. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(495), 1041-1052. DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2011.tm10518.
Selected grants and contracts
- Ghosh, JoyeeGrant Efficient Bayesian Model Averaging for Linear and Generalized Linear Models. Sponsored by National Security Agency Young Investigator Grant. March 1, 2014 - March 31, 2016.
- Ghosh, JoyeeGrant Scaling up Bayesian Variable Selection for High Dimensions. Sponsored by National Science Foundation DMS Statistics. August 1, 2016 - July 31, 2019.
Research areas
- Bayesian statistics
- Biostatistics
- Computational statistics
- Markov chain Monte Carlo
- Model selection