Mary Lai Salvana
Council Member
Mary Lai Salvana is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at
the University of Connecticut (UConn). Her work has helped
define and advance High-Performance Statistical Computing
(HPSC) as an emerging area at the intersection of
statistics, data science, and high-performance computing.
Her expertise includes computational statistics, large-scale
data science, spatial and spatio-temporal statistics,
extreme and catastrophic events, environmental statistics,
and high-performance computing. Prior to joining UConn, she
was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics
at the University of Houston. She received her Ph.D. in
Statistics from King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and her B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Applied Mathematics from Ateneo de Manila
University, Philippines, in 2015 and 2016, respectively.
