Luis Carvalho

Luis Carvalho was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2012. He joined BU’s Department of Mathematics & Statistics after receiving his PhD from Brown University in 2008. He began his education in civil engineering, with a focus on transportation engineering. As he learned more about operations research, he became more interested in the theory, leading to his work in statistical applications. His work has found applications in diverse areas, including unsupervised land cover classification from satellite images, assessing interaction among genes in genome-wide association studies, and identifying communities in social networks. Professor Carvalho specializes in Bayesian statistics, computational biology, and statistical inference.