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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Statistics

Alexander Lipka

Affiliate Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Crop Sciences
Associate Professor, Statistics
Associate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Associate Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies

Recent Publications

Bertolini, E., Rice, B. R., Braud, M., Yang, J., Hake, S., Strable, J., Lipka, A. E., & Eveland, A. L. (2025). Regulatory variation controlling architectural pleiotropy in maize. Nature communications, 16(1), Article 2140. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56884-w

Azam, R., Truong, S. T., Fernandes, S. B., Leakey, A., Lipka, A. E., El-Kebir, M., & Koyejo, S. (2024). Bayesian Optimization for Crop Genetics with Scalable Probabilistic Models. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 253, 30-44.

Bertolini, E., Manjunath, M., Ge, W., Murphy, M. D., Inaoka, M., Fliege, C., Eveland, A. L., & Lipka, A. E. (2024). Genomic prediction of cereal crop architectural traits using models informed by gene regulatory circuitries from maize. Genetics, 228(4), Article iyae162. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae162

Tuggle, C. K., Clarke, J. L., Murdoch, B. M., Lyons, E., Scott, N. M., Beneš, B., Campbell, J. D., Chung, H., Daigle, C. L., Das Choudhury, S., Dekkers, J. C. M., Dórea, J. R. R., Ertl, D. S., Feldman, M., Fragomeni, B. O., Fulton, J. E., Guadagno, C. R., Hagen, D. E., Hess, A. S., ... Schnable, P. S. (2024). Current challenges and future of agricultural genomes to phenomes in the USA. Genome biology, 25(1), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-03155-w

Widener, S., Njuguna, J. N., Clark, L. V., Anzoua, K. G., Bagmet, L., Chebukin, P., Dwiyanti, M. S., Dzyubenko, E., Dzyubenko, N., Ghimire, B. K., Jin, X., Jørgensen, U., Kjeldsen, J. B., Nagano, H., Peng, J., Petersen, K. K., Sabitov, A., Seong, E. S., Yamada, T., ... Lipka, A. E. (2024). Genotype by environment model predictive ability in Miscanthus. GCB Bioenergy, 16(1), Article e13113. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.13113

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Statistics

Computing Applications Building, Room 156

605 E. Springfield Ave.

Champaign, IL 61820

(217) 333-2167

Email: stat-office@illinois.edu

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