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Scott C Schmidler, Associate Professor of Statistical Science

Contact Info:
Office Location:  223D Old Chemistry Bldg.
Office Phone:  (919) 684-8064
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.stat.duke.edu/~scs/

Teaching (Fall 2013):

  • STA 340.01, STATISTICAL DECISION ANALYSIS Synopsis
    French Sci 2237, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
Education:

PhDStanford University2002
B.A.University of California, Berkeley1995
Specialties:

Bayesian Statistics
MonteCarlo Methodology
Stochastic Processes
Graphical Models
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Monte Carlo Methods, Statistical Shape Analysis, Machine Learning, Computational Chemistry

Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Ben Cooke  
  • Merrill Liechty  
  • Ming Liao  
  • Jason Cooper  
  • Juliette Colinas  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Jeff Krause (2002)  
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Cooke B, Schmidler SC, Preserving the Boltzmann Ensemble in Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 129 no. 16 (2008), pp. 1-17 [164112]
  2. Woodard DB, Schmidler SC, Huber M, Conditions for Rapid Mixing of Parallel and Simulated Tempering on Multimodal Distributions, Annals of Applied Probability, vol. (to appear) (2008)
  3. Cooke B, Schmidler SC, Statistical Prediction and Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Biophysical Journal, vol. 95 no. 10 (2008), pp. 4497-4511 [4497]
  4. Valiaev A, Lim DW, Schmidler SC, Clark RL, Chilkoti A, Zauscher S, Hydration and Conformational Mechanics of Single End-Tethered Elastin-Like Polypeptides, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 130 no. 33 (2008), pp. 10939-10946
  5. Colinas J, Bohrer G, Iordanov B, Schmidler SC, Benfey PN, Intergenic and Genic Sequence Lengths Have Opposite Relationships with Respect to Gene Expression, PLoS ONE, vol. 3 no. 11 (2008), pp. e3670