On August 1, several undergraduate students from the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University showcased their research at the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Students gathered in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union to present posters describing their research.
Presenters and Their Research
Everett Hargrove
A Statistical Approach to Rating Professional Disc Golfers and Predicting Outcomes
Advised by Dr. Dan Nettleton
Srika Raja
Matrix-free Principal Component Analysis of Large Partitioned Genetic Data
Advised by Dr. Somak Dutta
Brielle Wheeler
Small Area Estimation
Advised by Dr. Emily Berg
Debanjali Pathak
Modeling Cyclone Windspeeds in the North Indian Ocean: Linear Mixed Effects (LME) and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA)
Advised by Pulong Ma
Minh Tran
Modeling Tropical Cyclone Characteristics Using Dirichlet Process Mixture Models
Advised by Pulong Ma
Hang Minh Pham
SVR-LMM: Support Vector Mixed Model for Small Area Estimation
Advised by Dr. Emily Berg
Hao Guo
An Improved Pipeline and Model for Characterizing IBV Genome Sequence
Advised by Karin Dorman
Srilikitheswari "Lucky" Korrapati
Exploratory Statistics for Functions
Advised by Jarad Niemi