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EDUCATION

Ph.D candidate in Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Advisors: Joseph G. Ibrahim and Hongtu Zhu
• Dissertation: Bayesian Analysis of High-Dimensional Neuroimaging Data
• Expected defense date: June 2014

Master of Arts, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, May 2007

• Thesis award from CAPES/Brazil
• Master鈥檚 thesis: Nonparametric Estimation for Diffusion Processes

Bachelor of Arts, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, April 2005

• Major: Statistics

PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS

My main research interest is to develop new methods to model associations between clinical variables and multi-dimensional imaging data.
My focus is on Bayesian analysis and it involves primarily:

• Tensor decomposition techniques such as CP and Tukey
• Partial factor models
• Dictionary learning
• Functional principal components analysis

REFERRED PUBLICATIONS

Miranda, M. F., Zhu, H. and Ibrahim, J. G.聽 Bayesian Spatial Transformation Models with Applications in Neuroimaging Data.
Biometrics, 69-4, pages 1074-1083

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/biom.12085/references

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Bayesian Tensor Regression with Applications in Neuroimaging Data

Low Rank Partition Models with Applications in Neuroimaging Data

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award- 黑料网 Graduate School; academic year 2013-2014.

CAPES/Fulbright Scholarship, Fall 2008 until Spring 2012

GD Master Fellowship from CNPQ/Brazil, Spring 2005 until Fall 2006

Scientific Initiation Scholarship, Spring and Fall 2003