Contact Information
725 S. Wright St.
M/C 374
Champaign, IL 61820
Research Interests
Applied and computational statistics
Biostatistics and bioinformatics
Robust and semiparametric statistical methods
Functional data
Quantitative image analysis
Education
PhD, Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985
MS, Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983
BA, Mathematics, Carleton College, 1980
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Honors & Awards
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1998)
Fellow, American Statistical Association (2000)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017)
Recent Publications
Menictas, M., Nolan, T. H., Simpson, D. G., & Wand, M. P. (2021). Streamlined variational inference for higher level group-specific curve models. Statistical Modelling, 21(6), 479-519. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471082X20930894
Erickson-Bhatt, S. J., Simpson, D. G., & Boppart, S. A. (2020). Statistical evaluation of reader variability in assessing the diagnostic performance of optical coherence tomography. Journal of biomedical optics, 25(11). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.25.11.116002
Chen, S., McFarlin, B. L., Meagher, B. T., Peters, T. A., Simpson, D. G., O'Brien, W. D., & Han, A. (2019). A Phantom-Based Assessment of Repeatability and Reproducibility of Transvaginal Quantitative Ultrasound. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 66(9), 1413-1421. [8736856]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2019.2921925
Park, Y., & Simpson, D. G. (2019). Robust probabilistic classification applicable to irregularly sampled functional data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 131, 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2018.08.001
Marjanovic, M., Nolan, R. M., Erickson-Bhatt, S. J., Adie, S. G., Chaney, E. J., South, F. A., Monroy, G. L., Shemonski, N. D., Shelton, R. L., Bower, A. J., Simpson, D. G., Ray, P. S., Cradock, K. A., Liu, Z. G., & Boppart, S. A. (2016). Intraoperative in vivo assessment of lymph nodes with optical coherence tomography. In Clinical and Translational Biophotonics, Translational 2016 (Optics InfoBase Conference Papers). OSA - The Optical Society. https://doi.org/10.1364/TRANSLATIONAL.2016.TM4B.3