I received a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology (1992), an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of New Mexico (1996), and M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Statistics from U.C. Davis. My dissertation advisor was Wes Johnson.

I joined the Division of Biostatistics Fall of 2005 after five years at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico. My research interests include Bayesian hierarchical modeling, survival analysis, Bayesian nonparametric priors, and problems in veterinary epidemiology. Publications.

Div. of Biostatistics 10-11-06.

Joint Statistical Mtg. 8-2-07.

Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation, U.T. Austin 11-21-08.

IAP Workshop, Belgium: intro to Bayesian survival 11-19-09. Survival extensions 11-20-09.

Here are a few MIDI files of short piano tunes I wrote a long time ago: tune 1, tune 2, and tune 3. An old MP3. Here's another old one. A recent, rough MP3. Another.

Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Office: Mayo A444, phone 612-626-7075.
e-mail: hans0058@umn.edu.

Office hours (Spring 2010): Tuesday 1:00-2:30, Thursday 1:00-2:30, and by appointment.

Luping Zhao, Ph.D. (2008) (co-advised with B. Carlin). Biostatistician, Eli Lilly and Company.

Mingan Yang, Ph.D. (2006) (co-advised with R. Christensen). Assistant Professor, St. Louis University.

Ling Xu, Ph.D. (2005) (co-advised with E. Bedrick). Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, James Madison University.

Sarah Gaussoin Jaramillo, M.S. (2003). Biostatistician, Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

William Gruner, M.S. (2003). MZA Associates Corporation.

Plan B Advisees: Nick Salkowski (2007), Josh Rapkin (2008, with Jim Neaton), Zhenyu Pan (2008), Wei He (2008).