Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Carey E. Priebe


Professor
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Secondary Appointment: Department of Computer Science; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Center for Imaging Science; Human Language Technology Center of Excellence; Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute
http://www.ams.jhu.edu/~priebe/ ()
cep@jhu.edu (primary)

Education

Ph.D. 1993, George Mason University
----- 1989, University of California at San Diego
M.S. 1988, San Diego State University
B.S. 1984, Purdue University
----- 1981, United States Military Academy, West Point

Experience

2001: Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University
1999-2001: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
1994-1999: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
1991-1994: Mathematician, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Dahlgren, VA
1985-1991: Scientist, Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC), San Diego, CA

Research Areas

computational statistics, kernel and mixture estimates, statistical pattern recognition, statistical image analysis, dimensionality reduction, model selection, and statistical inference for high-dimensional and graph data.

Journal Articles

Ye, X., Fishkind, D.E., Abrams, L., Priebe, C.E. (2010). Sensor information monotonicity in disambiguation protocols. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 62(1). 142-151.
Rukhin, A., Priebe, C.E. (2010). A comparative power analysis of the maximum degree and size invariants for random graph inference. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 141. 1041-1046.
Priebe, C.E., Park, Y., Marchette, D.J., Conroy, J.M., Grothendieck, J., Gorin, A.L. (2010). Statistical inference on attributed random graphs: Fusion of graph features and content: An experiment on time series of Enron graphs. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 54(7). 1766–1776.
Ma, Z., Cardinal-stakenas, A., Park, Y., Trosset, M.W., Priebe, C.E. (2010). Dimensionality Reduction on the Cartesian Product of Embeddings of Multiple Dissimilarity Matrices. Journal of Classification. 27(3). 307-321.
Gupchup, J., Terzis, A., Ma, Z., Priebe, C. (2010). Classification-based event detection in ecological monitoring networks. Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering. 36-44.

Conference Proceedings

Karakos, D., Khudanpur, S., Priebe, C. "Computation of Csiszar's Mutual Information of Order alpha", 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2008.
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Marchette, D., Priebe, C. "Stochastic Equivalence Clustering Using Random Dot Product Graphs", Hawaii International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields, 2008.
Beer, E., Priebe, C., Scheinerman, E. "Torus Graph Inference for Detection of Localized Activity", Proceedings of the 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Workshop on Link Analysis, Counterterrorism and Security, 2008.
Karakos, D., Priebe, C.E. "Cross-Instance Tuning of Unsupervised Document Clustering Algorithms", NAACL-HLT'07, 2007.
Priebe, C.E., Youngser, P., Miller, M.I., Nikhil, R., Kelly, M., Botteron, N. "Hippocampus shape-space analysis of clinically depressed, high risk, and control populations", Proceedings of the FBIT 2007 International Conference, 2007, pp.465-469.

Awards & Honors

9999: National Security Agency Advisory Board Mathematics Panel
2008: Senior Member of the IEEE (Elected 2008)
2008: Research Professor in the National Security Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School
2007: Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (Elected 2007)
2002: Fellow of the American Statistical Association (Elected 2002)
Six U.S. patents
2008 - 2013: National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow, 2008
2008 - 2009: Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2009
2007 - 2009: Elected Vice President of the International Association for Statistical Computing, 2007-2009
2008 - 2008: Robert B. Pond, Sr., Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008
2006 - 2006: Exceptional Service to the American Statistical Association's Defense and Security Task Force, from Sallie Keller-McNulty, ASA President
2006 - 2006: Keynote Speaker, 2006 Army Conference on Applied Statistics
2000 - 2001: ASEE Sabattical Leave Fellow
1995: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
1994: Oraculum Award for Excellence in Teaching, The Johns Hopkins University
1993: Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Statistical Sciences Award, George Mason University

Presentations

Scan Statistics on Enron Graphs JHU CLSP. Baltimore. 2006-11-21. (Invited), November 21, 2006
Statistical Inference on Graphs Bayesian Statistics and Social Network Analysis. Norfolk, Virginia. 2006-11-02. (Invited), November 2, 2006
Analog to Information DARPA AtoI Program Review. Boulder, Colorado. 2006-10-31. (Invited), October 31, 2006
Keynote Presentation: Scan Statistics on Enron Graphs 2006 Army Conference on Applied Statistics. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. 2006-10-19. (Invited), October 19, 2006
Statistical Pattern Recognition on LDDMM Shape Workshop. Santa Fe, NM. 2006-07-24. (Invited), July 24, 2006
Scan Statistics on Enron Graphs Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Applied Math Seminar. New York. 2006-04-21. (Invited), April 21, 2006
Analog to Information DARPA AtoI Program Review. Arlington. 2006-04-13., April 13, 2006
Integrated Sensing and Processing DARPA ISP Program Review. Orlando. 2006-04-12. (Invited), April 12, 2006
On the conditionality principle in pattern recognition February Fourier Talks (FFT) at The Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications . University of Maryland at College Park. 2006-02-16. (Invited), February 16, 2006
Keynote Presentation: Scan Statistics on Enron Graphs Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) 2005-06 Program on National Defense and Homeland Security (NDHS). National Center for Health Statistics. 2006-02-03. (Invited), February 3, 2006
On the role of the conditionality principle in dimensionality reduction IMA Integration of Sensing and Processing. Minneapolis. 2005-12-07. (Invited), December 7, 2005
On Statistical Pattern Recognition DARPA Predicting Health & Disease Workshop. Annapolis. 2005-11-17. (Invited), November 17, 2005
Scan Statistics on Enron Graphs Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High-Dimensional Data . IPAM, UCLA. 2005-07-25. (Invited), July 25, 2005
A Hierarchical Methodology for Class Detection Problems with Skewed Priors Interface 2005. St. Louis, Missouri. 2005-06-10. (Invited), June 10, 2005
Statistical Pattern Recognition . Mathematics and Statistics Department - University of Canterbury. 2005-04-14. (Invited), April 14, 2005
On the role of the conditionality principle in dimensionality reduction . School of Mathematical Sciences - University of Adelaide. 2005-03-22. (Invited), March 22, 2005
inference on time series of graphs DSTO Workshop on Network Dynamics Research. Adelaide, Australia. 2005-03-15. (Invited), March 15, 2005
Plenary Talk: Multi-site shape analysis M-BIRN Spring Conference 2005. Miami Beach, Florida. 2005-03-02. (Invited), March 2, 2005
On the role of the conditionality principle in dimensionality reduction . The Krasnow Institute, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. 2005-02-28. (Invited), February 28, 2005
On the role of the conditionality principle in dimensionality reduction Multiscale Geometry and Analysis in High Dimensions. IPAM, UCLA. 2004-10-27. (Invited), October 27, 2004
Iterative denoising for cross-corpus discovery Army Conference on Applied Statistics. Atlanta.. 2004-10-20. (Invited), October 20, 2004
Statistical Pattern Recognition in High Dimensions COMPSTAT 2004: the 16th Symposium of IASC. Prague, Czech Republic. 2004-08-26. (Invited), August 26, 2004
Classification Using Class Cover Catch Digraphs IFCS 2004: The 2004 Meeting of the International Federation of Classification Societies. Chicago. 2004-07-17. (Invited), July 17, 2004
Perspectives on Mathematical Image Analysis Mathematical Imaging and Image Analysis. Gainesville, Florida. 2004-01-26. (Invited), January 26, 2004
Statistical Pattern Recognition in High Dimensions ASA-INFORMS Operations Research-Statistics Workshop. Sante Fe, NM. 2004-01-12. (Invited), January 12, 2004
Perspectives on Mathematical Image Analysis Mathematical Imaging and Image Analysis. Gainesville, Florida. 2003-11-14. (Invited), November 14, 2003
Integrated Sensing & Processing Decision Trees DARPA DSO ACMP ISP Program Review. St Petersburg, Florida. 2003-10-00. (Invited), September 30, 2003
Segmenting Magnetic Resonance Images via Hierarchical Mixture Modelling Seminar, Department of Statistics, U Michigan. Ann Arbor. 2003-10-00. (Invited), September 30, 2003
A Backscatter Characterization of Denial of Service Attacks 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings. San Francisco, California. 2003-08-00., July 31, 2003
Central Similarity Proximity Maps in Delaunay Tesselations 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings. San Francisco, California. 2003-08-00., July 31, 2003
Classification Using the Random Walk Class Cover 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings. San Francisco, California. 2003-08-00., July 31, 2003
Statistical Testing on Labelled Cortical Distance Maps to Identify Dementia Progression 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings. San Francisco, California. 2003-08-00., July 31, 2003
Statistical Pattern Recognition in High Dimensions DARPA DSO Tech. San Diego, California. 2003-07-00. (Invited), June 30, 2003
Segmenting Magnetic Resonance Images via Hierarchical Mixture Modelling Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society annual meeting. Tampa, Florida. 2003-03-30. (Invited), March 30, 2003
A Boosted CCCD Classifier for Fast Face Detection 35th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics. Salt Lake City, Utah. 2003-03-00. (Invited), February 28, 2003
Segmenting Magnetic Resonance Images via Hierarchical Mixture Modelling International Biometric Society annual meeting. Tampa, Florida. 2003-03-00. (Invited), February 28, 2003
Semi-Automated Segmentation of Cortical Subvolumes via Hierarchical Mixture Modelling SPIE Medical Imaging 2003. San Diego, California. 2003-01-00., December 31, 2002
Random Disambiguation Paths Army Conference on Applied Statistics. North Carolina State University. 2002-10-30. (Invited), October 30, 2002
Integrated Sensing and Processing for Statistical Pattern Recognition DARPA DSO ACMP ISP Kickoff meeting. Annapolis, Maryland. 2002-09-18. (Invited), September 18, 2002
Investigating Functional Brain Imagery Data Analysis Issues in fMRI. Dartmouth, NH. 2002-07-00. (Invited), June 30, 2002
Consistent Estimation of Mixture Complexity Workshop on Developments and Challenges in Mixture Models. Cleveland, OH. 2002-06-00. (Invited), May 31, 2002
Class Cover Catch Digraphs for Gene Expression Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland. 2002-03-14. (Invited), March 14, 2002
Class Cover Catch Digraphs for Latent Class Discovery in Gene Expression Monitoring Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society annual meeting. Washington, D.C.. 2002-03-00. (Invited), February 28, 2002
Investigating the structure of high dimensional pattern recognition problems JHU WSE IPL. Baltimore, MD. 2001-11-00. (Invited), October 31, 2001
Assessing the Significance of Excursion Regions in Brain Imagery via Importance Sampling The International Statistical Institute's 53rd Biennial Session. Seoul, South Korea. 2001-08-00. (Invited), July 31, 2001
Integrated Sensing and Processing MSRI Modern Signal Processing. Berkeley, CA. 2001-06-00. (Invited), May 31, 2001
The Adaptive Data Cube: An Experiment in Hyperspectral Pattern Recognition 33rd Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics. Orange County, CA. 2001-06-00. (Invited), May 31, 2001
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Remote Sensing for Detecting Minefields Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society annual meeting. Charlotte, NC. 2001-03-00. (Invited), February 28, 2001
The Adaptive Data Cube Integrated Sensing and Processing Workshop. Boulder, CO. 2000-08-00. (Invited), July 31, 2000
Investigating an Artificial Nose Maryland Chapter of the American Statistical Association Annual Banquet. Columbia, MD. 2000-06-00. (Invited), May 31, 2000
Statistical Pattern Recognition for an Artificial Nose 1999 WSE Anniversary Symposium. Baltimore, MD. 1999-11-00. (Invited), October 31, 1999
Optimizing Classification Performance 1999 Joint Statistical Meetings. Baltimore, MD. 1999-08-00. (Invited), July 31, 1999
Advanced Data Analysis Methods for Analyte Recognition from Optical Sensor Arrays 1999 DARPA Applied and Computational Mathematics Program Conference. San Francisco, CA. 1999-07-00. (Invited), June 30, 1999
Optimizing Sensor Fusion 1999 International Conference on Imaging Science. Las Vegas, NV. 1999-06-00. (Invited), May 31, 1999
Image Analysis via Spatial Scan Density Estimates Iowa State University Department of Statistics Lecture Series. Ames, IA. 1998-06-00. (Invited), May 31, 1998
Spatial Scan Density Estimates 1998 SPIE International AeroSense Symposium. Orlando, FL. 1998-04-00. (Invited), March 31, 1998
Applications of Change Point Analysis NCI Lung Imaging Workshop. Bethesda, MD. 1998-01-00. (Invited), December 31, 1997
Introduction to Mathematical Imaging and Image Processing The Mathematical Association of America Meeting. Baltimore, MD. 1998-01-00. (Invited), December 31, 1997
Nonparametric Discriminant Analysis in High Dimensions via Generalized Interpoint Distances Army Conference on Applied Statistics. Fairfax, VA. 1997-10-00. (Invited), September 30, 1997
Borrowing Strength for Nonhomogeneity Detection in Digital Mammography Session titled "Image Analysis, Including Applications to Biomedicine" at The International Statistical Institute's 51st Biennial Session. Istanbul, Turkey. 1997-08-00. (Invited), July 31, 1997
Nonparametric Discriminant Analysis in High Dimensions via Generalized Interpoint Distances Session titled "Current issues with High-Dimensional Data" at The 60th IMS Annual Meeting. Park City, UT. 1997-07-00. (Invited), June 30, 1997
Approximate Distance Clustering Session titled "Dimension Reduction and Projection Pursuit at The 29th Interface of Computer Science and Statistics. Houston, TX. 1997-05-00. (Invited), April 30, 1997
Spatial Scan Statistics and the Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications in Digital Mammography Colloquium to the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. Rockville, MD. 1997-04-00. (Invited), March 31, 1997
Approximate Distance Clustering George Mason University Center for Computational Statistics Lecture Series. Fairfax, VA. 1996-10-00. (Invited), September 30, 1996
A Spatial Scan Statistic for Stochastic Scan Partitions Workshop on Spatial Point Processes. Dahlgren, VA. 1996-05-00. (Invited), April 30, 1996
Segmentation of Random Fields via Borrowed Strength Density Estimation Whiting School of Engineering Junior Faculty Lecture. Baltimore, MD. 1996-05-00. (Invited), April 30, 1996
Semiparametric Nonhomogeneity Analysis Johns Hopkins University Department of Biostatistics seminar. Baltimore, MD. 1994-12-00. (Invited), November 30, 1994
Image Analysis Using Fractal Features National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD. 1993-02-00. (Invited), January 31, 1993

Committees

: IASC Program Chair, The International Statistics Institute's 53rd Biennial Session, Seoul, South Korea, August 2001
: Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) New Researchers Committee (Chair) (1998-)
: National Representative and Chapter Secretary for the Maryland Chapter of the American Statistical Association (1995-)
: Imaging Science Biomedical Institute Search Committee (1999-)
: Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Engineering Institute Imaging Group Planning Committee (1999)
: Committee, 1999 Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD, August 1999
: Program Chair, 1999 IMS New Researchers' Conference, Baltimore, MD, August 1999
: 30th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Minneapolis, MN, May 1998
: XIII COMPSTAT Conference of the IASC, Bristol, England, August 1998
2007 - 2009: I am a member of the Program Committee for the Workshop on Link Analysis, Counterterrorism and Security at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2008 & 2009
2004 - 2009: Conflict of Interest Committe, Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
2003 - 2009: Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University
2004 - 2004: Library Advisory Committe, Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
2002 - 2002: Office of Naval Research (ONR) / American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Research Evaluation Committee: a permanent committee which serves as an oversight panel for the ONR/ASEE Postdoctoral Fellowship program (1998-)
2002 - 2002: IMS Representative to CBMS (Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences) (2000-2003)
2002 - 2002: NSWCDD (Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division) ILIR (Internal Laboratory Independent Research) Program Review Committee (2000-)
2002 - 2002: Applied and Computational Mathematics Program Committee, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, Part-Time Programs in Engineering and Applied Science (1997-)