Luis Carvalho, PhD

Luis Carvalho is an  Associate Professor in the  Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Director of the MS in Statistical Practice (MSSP) at Boston University. His main research interests are in Bayesian inference for structured, often high-dimensional, discrete spaces, and Computational Statistics.

Carvalho joined BU after receiving his PhD from Brown University in 2008. He began his education in civil engineering, with a focus on transportation engineering. As he learned more about operations research, he became more interested in the theory, leading to his work in statistical applications. His work has found applications in diverse areas, including unsupervised land cover classification from satellite images, assessing interaction among genes in genome-wide association studies, and identifying communities in social networks. He was an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow from 2012 to 2015. In 2021, the Hariri Institute awarded Carvalho support for his project in collaboration with NASA JPL, “Land Cover Data Science Framework”.

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