Curriculum Vita
Anna
K. Panorska
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
email: ania@unr.edu
EDUCATION
1988-1992 Department
of Statistics and Applied Probability,
1986-1988
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
1982-1986
Department of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Computer
Science,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2004 – present
Interim Director, Senator Alan Bible’s Center for Applied Research (SABCAR), UNR.
Interim Director, Center for Research Design and Statistical Methods, UNR.
August 2002 – present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University
of
Faculty Member of the Graduate Hydrologic Sciences Program, UNR.
September 2000 – July 2002
Associate Research Professor,
Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, University and
Community College System of
September 1999 – August 2000
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability,
January 1997 – September 1999
Manager of Biostatistics
Department, Health Care Services
Division, BlueCross BlueShield of
August 1992 – July 1997
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics, The
June – July 1994
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Center for Stochastic Processes,
CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
January -May 2004
Faculty Consultant, Statistical Consulting Service Unit, CRDSM, UNR.
1996-1997
Expert Statistical Consultant for BCBST Government Benefits Administrator
(Medicare), BlueCross BlueShield
of
1999- 2003
Expert Statistical Consultant, Health Care Services Division, BlueCross
and BlueShield of
A. TEACHING
Awards
The UNR Student
Chapter of the American Water Resources Association awarded Anna Panorska the “Excellence in Teaching Award” for the
2002-2003 Academic Year.
Work
with Students
Direct(ed)
research, advised thesis work for
mathematics/statistics graduate students,
served on the MS/PhD committees for several mathematics and hydrology
majors.
B. RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Research Interests
Probability and statistics: Probability theory, limit and stable measures, risk modeling in economics, finance and environmental sciences, modeling and forecasting heavy-tailed phenomena and extreme events. Statistical modeling in the sciences.
Climate/air pollution and
environment: Modeling, predictability, and prediction of weather extremes
in the
Hydrology: Statistical and probabilistic models for describing and forecasting physical and chemical processes in watersheds. Total Maximum Daily Loads modeling.
Health care and information systems: Management information, quality measurement and sampling, health care delivery for special populations like Medicaid, evaluation of outcomes, evaluation of HMOs.
Biostatistics: Data
analysis for the effects of new clinical therapies including joint work with
researchers in the Warsaw Lung Cancer Institute and Warsaw School of Medicine –
Clinical Imaging (
Papers published or accepted for publication
· A mixed bivariate distribution with exponential and geometric marginals (with T.J. Kozubowski), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, in press.
·
Operator
geometric stable laws (with M. Meershaert, T. Kozubowski, and H.P.Sheffler), Journal
of Multivariate Analysis, in press.
·
Evaluation of the bladder carcinoma mass loss during
electroresection and electroevaporation in experimental conditions (with T. Szopiński, A. A. Antoniewicz, and A.
Borówka), The Polish Journal of Urology
(“Urologia Polska”), in press (in Polish).
·
Testing symmetry under a skew
·
Stochastic
study on groundwater flow and solute transport in porous medium with multiscale
heterogeneity (with Hu, B., Wu, Y., Zhang, D., and He, C.), Advances in
Water Resources, 2003, 26, 541-560.
·
Statistical issues in modeling multivariate stable
portfolios (with T.J. Kozubowski and S.T. Rachev), in: Handbook
of Heavy Tailed Distributions in Finance, S.T. Rachev (Ed.),
·
The
usefulness of tru-cut biopsy to staging carcinoma of the bladder. Experimental
study (with T. Szopiński, P. Chłosta, T. Dzik, G. Kata, A. A.
Antoniewicz, A. Borówka), The Polish
Journal of Urology[1]
(“Urologia Polska”), 56, 1, (2003), 50-55.
·
Stochastic modeling of regime shifts (with F.
Biondi and T.J. Kozubowski), Climate Research,
2002, 23, 23-30.
· Application of artificial neural networks to modeling the transport and dispersion of tracers in complex terrain (with D. Podnar and D. Koracin), Atmospheric Environment, 2002, 36, 561-570.
·
Endosonographic
appearance of the anal sphincters in patients following colostomy (with I.
Sudol-Szopinska, M. Szczepkowski, and
·
Usefulness
of endosonography in patients with colostomy before decision of decolostomy
(with I. Sudol-Szopinska, M. Szczepkowski, and
· Estimation of stable spectral measures (with J.P. Nolan and J.H. McCulloch), Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 2001, 34, 1113-1122.
· Interferon gamma and interleukin-2 secretion in whole blood cell cultures from small-cell lung cancer patients (with J. Szopinski, E. Rogala, S. von Kleis, E. Rowinska-Zakrzewska, E. Roginska), Tumor Biology, 2001, 22, 72-76.
· The influence of small cell lung cancer (sclc) extension on the interleukin-2 and interferon γ secretion in whole cell cultures stimulated with mitogens (with J. Szopinski, E. Rogala, E. Rowinska-Zakrzewska, E. Roginska), Polish Pneumonology and Alergolog, 2001, 69, 1/2, 26-32 (in Polish with English summary).
· Interleukin-2 and interferon γ secretion in whole blood cell culture stimulated with mitogens in lung cancer patients (with J. Szopinski, E. Rogala, S. von Kleis, E. Rowinska-Zakrzewska, E. Roginska), Polish Pneumonology and Alergology, 1999, 67, 11/12, 1:10 (in Polish with English summary).
· Generalized convolutions on R with applications to financial modeling, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 1999, 29, 263-274.
· Simulation of geometric stable and other limiting multivariate distributions arising in random summation scheme (with T. J. Kozubowski), Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 1999, 29, 255-262.
· Multivariate geometric stable distributions in financial applications (with T. J. Kozubowski), Mathematical and Computer Modeling 1999, 29, 83-92.
· Weak limits for multivariate random sums (with T. J. Kozubowski), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 1998, 67, 398-413.
· Data analysis for heavy tailed multivariate samples (with J. P. Nolan), Communications is Statistics – Stochastic Models, 1997, 13, 4, 687-702.
·
A note on the rate of convergence for
P-convolutions on 
, Probability and
Mathematical Statistics, 1997, 17, 1, 139-147.
· Generalized stable models for financial asset returns, Journal for Computational and Applied Mathematics, 1996, 70, 111-114.
· On moments and tail behavior of v-stable random variables (with T. J. Kozubowski), Statistics and Probability Letters, 1996, 29, 307-315.
·
Stable GARCH models for financial time series
(with
·
Rate of convergence in the central limit theorem
for generalized convolutions, in: Approximation,
Probability and Related Fields, G. Anastassiou et al. Eds., Plenum,
Recent grants and funding (excluding current pending proposals)
·
Collaborative Research:
Modeling, Variability and Predictability of North American Hydrologic Extremes, National Science
Foundation (2003-2006) – ATM-0231781 (PI -
$500,000). Collaboration between UNR, SCRIPPS Inst. of Oceanography, and Desert
Research Inst.
·
Collaborative Research: Stochastic Methods for Fractional Partial
Differential Equations, National Science Foundation
(2002-2005) –Focused Research Groups-Mathematics, DMS-0139927 (Co-PI at funding time, $500,000). Collaboration between UNR and
Desert Research Inst.
·
Antidegradation Water Quality Standards
Analysis, Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (2003-2004) (Co-PI, $51,484).
·
Developing a Shorezone
Erosion Hazard Model: The Lake
Tahoe Test Case, National Science Foundation via EPSCOR Program
(2001-2002), (PI, $35k).
· Alternative Future Scenarios: Phase 1 Development of a Modeling System, Department of Defense (2001-2002), (co-PI, $100k).
·
Center for Health Care Strategies, Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, grant for design of a Medicaid Medical Management
Information System replicable by managed care Medicaid plans in the
Recent
invited presentations
·
Random sums, heavy
tails and the "Dust Bowl”, Department of Environmental
Engineering, Division of Water Resources Management and Hydrology, Warsaw
University of Technology,
·
Risk, random sums
and heavy tails: stochastic models for extremes, International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis,
·
Adventures of a
Statistician, Nevada-ASA 2nd
Annual Meeting and Career Day,
Recent selected presentations (presenter in bf.):
·
Nutrient
Yields and Watershed Characteristics in the
·
Shorezone
Erosion at Lake Tahoe and the Potential Effects of Different Lake-Level
Management Scenarios, 2nd
Biennial Conference On Tahoe Environmental Concerns, May 17-19, 2004, (Ken Adams and Anna Panorska)
- A
2300-year Hydroclimatic Reconstruction for the Eastern Sierra Nevada, USA,
March 4, 2004, UNR Plant Talk Series 04, (Franco
Biondi, Tomasz Kozubowski, Anna Panorska, Laurel Saito, Scotty
Strachan,)
.
- Random Sums, Laplace and
Pacific Decadal Oscillation, University of California at San Diego, SCRIPPS Institution of
Oceanography, Climate Research Division Seminar, May 27, 2003 (Franco
Biondi, Tomasz Kozubowski and Anna
Panorska).
- Symmetry Under a Skew
Laplace Model-a Bridge to Knowledge about Pacific Climate, Joint Statistical Meetings, San
Francisco, August 3, 2003 (Franco Biondi, Tomasz Kozubowski and Anna Panorska).
- Stochastic identification
of the strongest, greatest, highest episode in a paleo record, Inaugural Meeting of the International
Biogeography Society, 4-8 Jan 2003.
- Can TRU-CUT biopsy replace
TURBT in final evaluation of infiltrating bladder cancer? Ex vivo
feasibility study. (Chlosta
P, Tomasz Szopinski, Dzik T, Panorska A, Kata G, Antoniewicz, A, Borowka
A.) Winter Wscape Meeting 30 XI-3 XII 2003, Spanish Tenerife, Session I Oncology, Monday 1 XII
16-17.30, session chair Laguna Izorna.