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A research team led by Shaheen Awan and bolstered with a $3.12 million dollar grant is on the verge of filling a long-existing void in speech pathology and assessment of disordered voice to make patient evaluations affordable, accessible and practical. Their solution? A whistle. At Purdue, his son, Jordan Awan, leads data analysis while aerodynamics engineer Jun Chen works on modifications of the whistle for specific tasks.
9th Bayesian, Fiducial, and Frequentist (BFF) Conference
11-20-2024The BFF9 on May 12-14, 2025 is hosted by the Department of Statistics in Purdue Indy. The event will be held at the Tower Ballroom Foyer.
Distance Profiles for Random Objects, with Applications to Metric Data Analysis and Conformal Inference
New Faculty Members Join Biological Sciences and Statistics
08-27-2024The Departments of Biological Sciences and Statistics are pleased to welcome two outstanding new faculty members for the 2024-25 academic year.
Here’s how machine learning can violate your privacy
04-24-2024Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars and customized advertisements. Research has shown, however, that these systems memorize aspects of the data they were trained with in order to learn patterns, which raises concerns for privacy.