Wendy Meiring is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (PSTAT), with courtesy affiliations in the Bren School for Environmental Science and Management, and in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Dynamical Neuroscience. The majority of her research involves spatio-temporal statistics (for data collected over space and time) or functional data analysis. Prof Meiring especially enjoys cross-disciplinary scientific collaborations, frequently with scientists whose labs collect data themselves to address exciting scientific questions. Prof Meiring joined UCSB in 1998, having completed her PhD in Statistics at University of Washington, and a postdoc in the Geophysical Statistics Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

 

Mengyang Gu is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to joining UCSB, he was a research assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University and he obtained his PhD in Statistical Science from Duke. He won a few awards since he joined UCSB, such as the SIAG/UQ early career prize, Hellman faculty fellowship, and ACM IMC best long paper award. His research interests include Bayesian analysis, uncertainty quantification, machine learning, spatio-temporal modeling and image analysis, with applications in physics, materials science, geological hazard quantification and epidemiology.