Misrak Gezmu

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Misrak Gezmu is an Ethiopian-American statistician who works as a mathematical statistician and grant officer for the Biostatistics Research Branch of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. [1] She is known for her pioneering doctoral research on the statistics of up-and-down designs. [2]

Gezmu is originally from Ethiopia. [3] She earned a Ph.D. in statistics from American University in Washington, D.C. in 1996; [1] Her doctoral dissertation, The Geometric Up-and-Down Design for Allocating Dosage Levels, was supervised by Nancy Flournoy. [4] While still a doctoral student, she became an assistant professor of decision sciences at Norfolk State University in Virginia in 1993. She moved to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1998. [1]

Gezmu is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, elected to the 2022 class of fellows. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Misrak Gezmu, Ph.D.", Biostatistics Research Branch staff, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, December 2022, retrieved 2023-11-30
  2. Oron, Assaf P.; Hoff, Peter D. (April 2009), "The k-in-a-row up-and-down design, revisited", Statistics in Medicine, 28 (13): 1805–1820, doi:10.1002/sim.3590, PMID   19378270
  3. Abebayehu, Daniel (2017), Modulating the innate immune response to electrospun scaffolds and polymer degradative byproducts (Ph.D. thesis), Virginia Commonwealth University, p. iii, doi:10.25772/XW56-2K78
  4. Misrak Gezmu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ASA 2022 Fellows (PDF), American Statistical Association, retrieved 2023-11-30