Omar Melikechi, Assistant Professor of Statistical Science

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Teaching (Spring 2026):

• STA 402L.001, BAYESIAN MODELING Synopsis

  Old Chem 116, WF 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• STA 402L.01L, BAYESIAN MODELING Synopsis

  Old Chem 101, Th 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• STA 402L.02L, BAYESIAN MODELING Synopsis

  Old Chem 101, Th 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	Duke University	2022
B.A.	Dartmouth College	2013

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Melikechi, O; Dunson, DB; Miller, JW, Nonparametric IPSS: fast, flexible feature selection with false discovery control., Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), vol. 41 no. 5 (May, 2025), pp. btaf299 [doi]  [abs]
2. Safi, A; Giunti, E; Melikechi, O; Xia, W; Melikechi, N, Identification of blood plasma protein ratios for distinguishing Alzheimer's disease from healthy controls using machine learning, Heliyon, vol. 11 no. 3 (February, 2025), pp. e42349-e42349, Elsevier BV [doi]
3. Melikechi, O; Miller, JW, Integrated Path Stability Selection, Journal of the American Statistical Association (January, 2025) [doi]  [abs]
4. Melikechi, O; Dunson, DB, Ellipsoid fitting with the Cayley transform., IEEE transactions on signal processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, vol. 72 (January, 2024), pp. 70-83 [doi]  [abs]
5. Melikechi, O; Young, AL; Tang, T; Bowman, T; Dunson, D; Johndrow, J, Limits of epidemic prediction using SIR models., Journal of Mathematical Biology, vol. 85 no. 4 (September, 2022), pp. 36 [doi]  [abs]