Damla_Şentürk

Damla Şentürk

Damla Şentürk

Turkish-American biostatistician

Damla Şentürk is a Turkish-American biostatistician and professor of biostatistics in the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health[1] whose interests include longitudinal studies, functional data analysis, and applications of biostatistics in the study of autism and of dialysis outcomes.[1][2][3]

Education and career

Şentürk studied mathematics at Boğaziçi University, graduating in 1999. She came to the University of California, Davis for graduate study in statistics, earned a master's degree in 2001, and completed her PhD at Davis in 2004.[4] Her dissertation, Covariate Adjusted Regression and Correlation, was supervised by Hans-Georg Müller.[5]

She became an assistant professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University in 2004, and moved to the UCLA Department of Biostatistics in 2011, adding a joint appointment with the UCLA Department of Statistics in 2014.[4]

Recognition

Şentürk became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2006.[4] She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Damla Senturk, Professor of Biostatistics", Faculty Directory, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, retrieved 2021-07-05
  2. [2]
    "Autism severity detected with brain activity test", Neuroscience News, 25 July 2017, retrieved 2021-07-05
  3. [3]
    Bernstein, Jules (1 June 2021), "$3 million grant aims to prolong life for dialysis patients: Statisticians take deep dive into mortality factors", UC Riverside News, University of California, Riverside
  4. [4]
    Curriculum vitae (PDF), August 2017, retrieved 2021-07-05
  5. [5]
    Damla Şentürk at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. [6]
    ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-07-04
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