Statistics faculty are grant principal investigators

The following grants have been awarded to Department of Statistics faculty, who are serving as principal investigators (PI).

Improving Modern Diagnostics: Detecting and Genotyping of Evolving Viral Pathogens

Principal Investigator (PI): Karin Dorman, Professor

Co-PI: Drs. Mohamed El-Gazzar and Yuko Sato of the ISU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

Inspired by both advances and remaining weaknesses in viral diagnostics unveiled by the COVID pandemic, we are developing sensitive and accurate methods to detect and sequence viral pathogens in clinical samples. 

Awarded through National Institute for Health

Development of Online Transfer Learning System for Real-time Decision Making

PI: Jae-kwang Kim, Professor

Awarded through Hyundai Information Technology, Co, LTD

Creating New Methods for Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Systems

PI: Pulong Ma, Assistant Professor

PI: Li Ma, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago

Grant aims to develop a suite of Gaussian process based probabilistic models, methods, algorithms, theory, and softwares for effectively addressing several critical challenges in modern applications of Uncertainty Quantification.

Awarded through National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences

Enhancing Tools for Analyzing Data Across Space and Time

PI: Pulong Ma, Assistant Professor

Grant's aim is to provide theoretical foundations and statistical models for characterizing multivariate and space-time dependencies and performing robust inference for modeling multivariate and space-time processes.

Awarded through National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences

Resampling Bridges for Complex Data

PI: Dan Nordman, Professor

Partner Grant: Haihan (Mark) Yu, former ISU student (PhD '23) and currently an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island, received a partner grant.

The project is about developing hybrid methods that can combine strengths and build bridges between philosophically different resampling strategies: namely, bootstrap, subsampling, and empirical likelihood. The intention is to provide improved statistical inference without strong assumptions about data.

This grant award owes much to the ISU Department of Statistics and the External Research Support Team of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Awarded through National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences

Understanding the Meat Supply Chain Network: The Impact of Supply Disruptions on Food Insecurity and Nutritional Inequality

PI: Cindy Yu, Professor

Co-PI: David Hennessy, Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University

Awarded through National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Economics, Markets and Trade (subaward from UW Madison)

U.S. Wheat Crop Quality Sample Collection and Weighting Analysis

PI: Cindy Yu, Professor

Co-PI: Kosuke Morikawa, Assistant Professor

Awarded through U.S. Wheat Associates]

Statistical Support for the BLM Landscape Monitoring Framework

PI: Cindy Yu

Co-PI: Zhengyuan Zhu

Awarded through U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

FUSE: Fast Unbiased Small-area Estimation for Timely Measurement of Community Perceptions of Policing and Public Safety

PI: Zhengyuan Zhu, Professor, Director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, and Co-Director, ISU Federal Statistics Research Data Center

Co-PI: Berg K. Burgason

Awarded through Department of Justice (DOJ) National Institute of Justice

Statistical and Survey Methods Support for the National Resources Inventory

PI: Zhengyuan Zhu, Professor, Director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, and Co-Director, ISU Federal Statistics Research Data Center

Co-PI: Jae-Kwang Kim, Cindy Yu, and Emily Berg

Awarded through United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service

UNS: Integrated assessments of urbanization impacts on building energy use for urban energy sustainability

PI: Zhengyuan Zhu, Professor, Director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, and Co-Director, ISU Federal Statistics Research Data Center

Awarded through National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems

Statistical and survey methods support for the collection and analysis of the in-field agricultural practices data in Illinois crop reporting districts

PI: Zhengyuan Zhu, Professor, Director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, and Co-Director, ISU Federal Statistics Research Data Center

Awarded through Iowa Nutrient Research and Education Council

Iowa Youth Survey Administration

PI: Zhengyuan Zhu, Professor, Director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, and Co-Director, ISU Federal Statistics Research Data Center

Awarded through Iowa Department of Health and Human Services