Prof Andriëtte Bekker

Tel: 012 420 2523

Email: [email protected]

Position: Full Professor 

Head of Department of Statistics: 2012- February 2022

Focus Area Coordinator: Statistical Theory and Applied Statistics (see link), Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand

Current NRF Rating: C1

Academic qualifications: BSc, BSc Hons, HDE, MSc (UJ), PhD (UNISA)

Research interests: Bayesian statistics, Computational and Methodological Distribution theory; Directional statistics; Matrix variate / multivariate statistics; modal inference, network learning and graphical models; machine learning

Current postgraduate students:

PhD: C Geldenhuys, M Wagener, J Smith, R M Salgado, A van Wyk, A Otto, D van Wyk

Various masters and honours students currently under my supervision

Previous postgraduate students:

PhD (past 10 years): R Ehlers, K Adamski, J Kleyn, J van Niekerk, MT Loots, JT Ferreira, S Makgai, P Nagar

Various masters and honours students successfully completed

 

Awards and scientific/scholarly recognition:

  • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
  • 2001-2006: NRF L rating
  • From 2007: NRF C2 rating.
  • From 2019: NRF C1 rating
  • Received medal S2 A3 from the Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • Statistics Publication Impact award 2022- COE_ MASS.
  • Exceptional Academic Achiever Award- University of Pretoria, 2023.

 

Associate Editor:

  • Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods (LSTA)/Simulation and Computation (LSSP).
  • Journal of Iranian Statistical Society
  • Guest editor for the STATISTICS, OPTIMIZATION AND INFORMATION COMPUTING journal for the Special Issue on Computational Techniques in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Vol. 6, September 2018.
  • Guest editor for MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING Special Issue on Recent Trends in Statistical Methodologies within Communications and Systems Engineering, October 2019.
  • Editor of Springer Book: Computational and Methodological Statistics and Biostatistics – Contemporary Essays in Advancement. Springer Nature. 2020.  ISBN 978-3-030-42195-3
  • Editor of Springer Book: Innovations in multivariate statistical modeling: navigating theoretical and multidisciplinary domains. Springer Nature.  ISBN 978-3-031-13970-3

Selected list of publications:

Book chapters

 

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