Ximu Deng Successfully Defends her PhD (July, 2022)

Ximu Deng has successfully defended her dissertation on July 10th, 2022. Congratulations Dr. Deng. The title of her dissertation is Dynamic Shape Modeling to Analyze Modes of Migration During Cell Motility and Characterizing Cell Shape Distributions.
Chao Chen Successfully Defends his PhD (June, 2022)

Chao Chen successfully defended his dissertation on July 24th, 2022. Congratulations Dr. Chen. The title of his dissertation is Elastic Functional Registration Using Deep Neural Networks. He is joining VISA as a data scientist.
Yuexuan Wu Successfully Defends his PhD (July, 2022)

Yuexuan Wu successfully defended his dissertation on July 2nd, 2022. Congratulations Dr. Wu. The title of his dissertation is Computational Anatomy: Elastic Shape Analysis of Subcortical Structures. He is joining University of Washington Biostatistics department as a postdoc.
Anuj Srivastava elected Fellow of IMS (May, 2022)

Anuj Srivastava was selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in May 2022. For FSU’s announcement of this even, please follow the link (FSU News). The IMS announcement on the induction of 40 new fellows can be found here.
New DARPA Collaborative Grant Funded (April 2022)

A new DARPA grant under the program DARPA DARPA-PA-21-04-05 has been funded for research on Geometries of Learning. The project is led by Dr. Pavan Turaga of ASU as PI and Dr. Anuj Srivastava (FSU), Dr. Vishal Patel, and Dr. Rama Chellappa of Johns Hopkins. as a Co-PI. Title of the Project is MaCRoLearn: Manifold Controls of Robust Learning
New NSF Colaborative Grant Funded (August 2022)

A new NSF CMMI– 2132311 grant with Dr. Chiwoo Park of FSU as PI and Dr. Anuj Srivastava as a Co-PI, has been funded for the period 2022 – 2025. Title of the Project is New Data Science for Human Operational Analysis in Smart Manufacturing.
Anuj Srivastava elected Fellow of AAAS (November 2020)

Anuj Srivastava was selected as a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science in November 2020. For FSU’s announcement of this even, please follow the link (FSU News). The AAAS announcement on the induction of 489 new fellows can be found here. The local newspaper — Tallahassee Democrat — also covered the news in its Campus Notes section.
New NSF Colaborative Grant Funded (June 2020)

A new NSF CISE grant 1955154 with Dr. Sudeep Sarkar of USF as PI and Dr. Anuj Srivastava and Dr. Sathya Aakur of OSU as Co-PIs, has been funded for the period 2020 – 2023. Title of the Project is Understanding Events from Streaming Video – Joint Deep and Graph Representations, Commonsense Priors, and Predictive Learning.
New NSF Grant Funded (March 2020)

A new NSF CDS&E grant DMS 1953087 with Dr. Anuj Srivastava as PI and Dr Chao Huang as Co-PI, has been funded for the period 2020 – 2023. Title of the Project is Geometrical Regression Models Using Complex Shape Variables.
Carlos Soto Successfully Defends his PhD (July, 2020)

Carlos Soto successfully defended his dissertation on July 3rd, 2020. Many congratulations to Dr. Soto. The title of his dissertation is Structural Data Analysis in Bioinformatics: A Focus on Chromosomes and Proteins. He is joining Penn State Statistics department as a postdoc.
Xiaoyang Guo Successfully Defends his PhD (April, 2020)

Xiaoyang Guo successfully defended his dissertation on April 7th, 2020. Many congratulations to Dr. Guo. The title of his dissertation is Geometrical Tools for Statistical Analysis of Graphical Shapes. He is going to work for Facebook.
New NIH R01 Grant Funded (September, 2019)

A new NIH grant with Dr. Suprateek Kundu of Emory University as PI and several others including Dr. Anuj Srivastava as a Co-PI has been funded for the period 2019 – 2024. Title of the Project is Integrative Brain Network-Based Analysis of Heterogeneous PTSD Data.
Mengyu Dai Successfully Defends his PhD (February, 2020)

Mengyu Dai successfully defended his dissertation on February 27th, 2020. Many congratulations to Dr. Dai. The title of his dissertation is Inferences from Longitudinal Image Data Using SPDM Trajectories. Mengyu is going to work for Microsoft.
New NIH R01 Grant Funded (September, 2019)

A new NIH grant with Dr. Pavan Turaga of Arizona State University as PI and several others, including Dr. Anuj Srivastava as a Co-PI, has been funded for the period 2019 – 2023. Title of the Project is Dense Life-Log Analytics from Wearable Sensors Using Functional Analysis and Riemannian Geometry.