Q&A with UNL's Director of Computational Sciences Initiative

摘要

Formally, I am an associate professor in the department of statistics and the department of food science and technology at the University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL). I have the usual responsibilities that associate professors have-maintaining a research program (mine focuses on statistical metagenomics and statistical prediction), teaching, and advising graduate students. However, what's novel about my position is that I'm director of the Computational Sciences Initiative (CSI) at UNL. The CSI-despite its unfortunate acronym-is a university-wide, faculty-driven program to enable and develop resources for Big Data and data science, with an emphasis on the life sciences. I started in this position in August 2013.