Joseph Lucas, PhD
Research Interests
The very high dimensional data available in many fields, but particularly in Biology, are stretching the standard statistical techniques beyond their capability. With full genome scans, DNA microarrays, complex models in structural biology, and other high throughput experimental techniques, the dimension of the data measured is often vastly higher than the number of observations taken.
Additionally, combining these vast sources in meaningful ways is a tremendous challenge, but offers tremendous potential to improve understanding of cellular and structural biology. For this type of data, standard statistical techniques are often inadequate.
My research is focused on questions of model and variable selection, especially related to high-dimensional multivariate modeling problems arising in biostatistics and genomics. My work to date involves a blend of modeling innovation for gene expression and structural biology together with computational statistics for model fitting and evaluation.
Contact Information
Joseph Lucas
Phone: 919-668-3667
joseph.lucas@duke.edu
Physical Address:
107 North Building
Durham, NC 27708
Postal Address:
Box 90090
Durham, NC 27710