Curriculum Vitae

Mark Huber

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228 Physics
Durham, NC 27708

(919) 660-6970 (office)

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Education: B.S. in Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, 1994 Masters in Operations Research at Cornell University, 1997 Ph.D. in Operations Research at Cornell University, 1999

Areas of Research: Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic computation

Professional Service

University Committee: Academic Council, May, 2004 - May, 2006

Dept Committee: Graduate Affairs Committee, 2006 - present; Committee to create written basic analysis qualifying exam, August, 2004 - May 01, 2007; Qualifying Exam Committee for Rann Bar-on, December 07, 2004; Qualifying Exam Committee for Jeffrey Streets, October, 2003; Qualifying Exam Committee for Michael Nicholas, November, 2002

Papers Refereed: American Math Monthly, Referee, August, 2007; Referee, Advances in Applied Probability, December 2006; Referee, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, December 2006; Referee, Bayesian Analysis, July 2006; Referee, Random Structures and Algorithms, July 2006; Bernoulli, June 2006; European Journal of Applied Mathematics, April 29, 2006; Annals of Applied Probability, February 2006; Referee, Journal of Statistical Computation and Computation, December 2005; Referee, Electronic Journal of Probability, 2003-05; Referee, Random Structures and Algorithms, September 2005; Referee, Journal American Statistical Association, 2003-05; Referee, Annals of Applied Probability, 2003

Other: Undergraduate major advisor, August 1, 2002 - present; MAD Scientist, MAD Scientist Network, January 1, 1999 - present

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Sampling linear extensions for inference, Computational Algebraic Statistics, December 10, 2008; Perfect simulation of Matérn type III point processes, Mathematics and Statistics Seminar, The Johns Hopkins University, October 23, 2008; Conditions for Parallel and Simulated Tempering to be fast or slow, Probability Seminar, Duke University, October 09, 2008; Perfect simulation of Matérn type III point processes, Stochastics Seminar, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 2, 2008; Dealing with Matérn type III point processes, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Colloquium, Cornell University, September 23, 2008; An Overview of Perfect Sampling Methods, "Advances in Analysis of Monte Carlo Methods", Harvard University, December 02, 2007; Improved perfect sampling for repulsive point processes, University of Minnesota, October 11, 2007; An attractive algorithm for repulsive spatial point processes, Algorithms Seminar, Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, October 01, 2007; A new move for spatial point processes, DIMACS Workshop on Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Synthesizing Theory and Practice, June 07, 2007; Swapped at birth: Building a better spatial point process, Duke Mathematics Graduate Faculty Seminar, April 13, 2007; Some experiments on tridiagonal matrices for beta ensembles., SAMSI Universality working group, November 05, 2006 [html]; Perfect simulation with the Randomness Recycler for arbitrary state spaces, University of Warwick, August 22, 2006; Advance Acceptance/Rejection Methods for Monte Carlo Algorithms, UC Davis-Department of Mathematics, March 05, 2006; Polynomial time generation of random regular graphs, Random Graphs and Stochastic Computation Workshop, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC USA, June 13, 2005; Time Dependent Update Functions for Perfect Sampling, Joint Statistical Meetings, August, 2004; Time dependent update functions for perfect sampling, IMS meeting Singapore, March 11, 2004; Perfect Sampling: techniques and challenges, University of Ulm, 9 December 2003; Perfect sampling, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 5 December 2003; Markov chain moves for generating contingency tables with fixed weighted row sums, SAMSI, 29 July 2003; Bounded chain techniques for perfect sampling, Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar at NC State, 14 February 2003; Randomness Recycler: A technique for generating perfect samples from high dimensional distributions, Duke Statistics Research Seminars, September 7, 2001

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