Curriculum Vitae. Elif Fidan Acar. CRM Postdoctoral Fellow - Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and McGill University (October present)

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1 Curriculum Vitae Elif Fidan Acar McGill University Phone: (514) Department of Mathematics & Statistics Fax: (514) Sherbrooke Street West, Room Montréal, Quebéc Canada H3A 2K6 Homepage: Current Position CRM Postdoctoral Fellow - Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and McGill University (October present) Education Ph.D. Statistics, University of Toronto, Canada, November 2010 Thesis: Nonparametric Estimation and Inference for the Copula Parameter in Conditional Copulas Committee: Radu Craiu (advisor), Fang Yao (co-advisor), Nancy Reid and Michael Evans External Examiner: Grace Y. Yi (University of Waterloo) M.S. Mathematics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, U.S., September 2006 B.S. Statistics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, June 2003 Minor: Economics, June 2003 Research Interests Copulas and vines, statistical genetics, nonparametric curve estimation, model selection and averaging, missing data problems. Publications Refereed Journal Publications Acar E, Craiu R, Yao F (2011). Dependence calibration in conditional copulas: A nonparametric approach. Biometrics, 67, No 2, Acar E, Genest C, Nešlehová J. Beyond simplified pair copula constructions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, to appear. Acar E, Sun L. A generalized Kruskal Wallis test that incorporates group uncertainty with application to genome-wide association studies, submitted. Acar E, Craiu R, Yao F. Statistical testing for conditional copulas, submitted.

2 Elif Fidan Acar 2 Refereed Conference Abstracts Other Acar E, Sun L (2010). A rank-based association test that incorporates uncertainty in imputed SNPs. Abstract #122 presented at the IGES annual meeting. Genetic Epidemiology 34:950. Acar E, Sun L (2010). A generalized Kruskal-Wallis test for association analysis of imputed SNPs. Abstract #2794 presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. Nonparametric Estimation and Inference for the Copula Parameter in Conditional Copulas. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, November Report on Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Sciences, Vast-dimensionality and Sparsity, Fields Notes, October 2010, Volume 11:1, 14. Collaborative Experience Leading Statistician Northern Forest Ecosystem Response to Environmental Change - Regional Collaboration and Database Development, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (July 2006 to September 2006) Statistician Statewise MtBE Risk Analysis Study, funded by New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (January 2005 to September 2005) Invited Talks 8 th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, July McGill Biostatistics Seminar, McGill University, Montréal, February Séminaire de statistique, Université Laval, Québec City, October McGill Statistics Seminar, McGill University, Montréal, September Meet a GERAD researcher! Seminar, Montréal, September th Conference of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society, Crete, May 2011 Statistical Methods for Genetics & Genomics Seminar, Toronto, January 2011 Séminaire de statistique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, November 2010 Colloque CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique, Montréal, October 2010

3 Elif Fidan Acar 3 Contributed Talks Statistics Graduate Student Union Seminar, Toronto, th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Wolfville, 2011 HEC Optimization Days, Montréal, May th Annual International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) Meeting, Boston, October 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Québec City, 2010 University of Toronto, Department of Statistics Seminar Series in Toronto, 2010 Statistics Graduate Student Union Seminar, Toronto, 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington D.C., 2009 Fields Institute - Annual Statistics Research Day, Toronto, th Conference of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society (EMR-IBS), Istanbul, 2009 XXIII International Biometric Conference, Montréal, 2006 Awards and Scholarships CRM Postdoctoral fellowship (2010) American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section - The David P. Byar Travel Award (2010) Statistical Society of Canada - Travel Award (2010) University of Toronto - Departmental Doctoral Award ( ) University of Toronto - Departmental Teaching Assistant Award ( ) University of Toronto Fellowship ( ) University of Toronto - Departmental Admission Award (2006) University of New Hampshire - Full Tuition Scholarship ( ) Middle East Technical University - Student Support Society Scholarship ( ) Ministry of Education, Turkey - Scholarship based on Public Boarding School Examination ( )

4 Elif Fidan Acar 4 Academic Experience Course Instructor STA255- Statistical Theory, University of Toronto, Department of Statistics (Winter 2009) - Approximate class size is 75 students. STA220- The Practice of Statistics I, University of Toronto, Department of Statistics (Fall 2007, Summer 2008) - Approximate class size is 250 students in the Fall term and 115 students in the Summer term. STA261- Probability & Statistics II, University of Toronto, Department of Statistics (Summer 2007) - Approximate class size is 55 students. Head Teaching Assistant STA 220- The Practice of Statistics I, University of Toronto, Department of Statistics (Fall 2007, 2008 and 2009) STA 261- Probability & Statistics II, University of Toronto, Department of Statistics (Winter 2008) Teaching Assistant HMB 325- Statistics Applied to Human Biology, University of Toronto, Human Biology Program (Fall 2009) STA 221- The Practice of Statistics II, University of Toronto, Department of Statistics (Summer 2009) STA 261- Probability & Statistics II, University of Toronto, Department of Statistics (Winter 2007) STA 220- The Practice of Statistics I, University of Toronto, Department of Statistics (Fall 2006) MATH 420- Finite Mathematics, University of New Hampshire, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Fall 2005, Spring 2006) MATH 742- Multivariate Statistical Methods, University of New Hampshire, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Fall 2004) MATH 644- Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, University of New Hampshire, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Fall 2004) Research Assistant Research Assistant to Lei Sun, University of Toronto (September August 2010) Research Assistant to Ernst Linder, University of New Hampshire (January August 2005)

5 Elif Fidan Acar 5 Supervision Samuel Perreault - Undergraduate research project on Bivariate Extreme-Value Copulas with Discrete Dependence Measure (Summer 2011) Katherine Rudd - Honours Independent Study on Extreme-Value Theory (Winter 2011) Professional Activities Manuscript Review Biometrics Canadian Journal of Statistics (CJS) Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA) Electronic Journal of Statistics (EJS) Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS) Journal of Multivariate Analysis (JMVA) Membership American Mathematical Society American Society of Human Genetics American Statistical Association International Genetic Epidemiology Society Institute of Mathematical Statistics Statistical Society Canada Other Coordinator of the McGill Statistics Seminar Series, Montréal, January -April, 2012 Co-organizer of the Workshop on Copula Models and Dependence, Montréal, June 6-9, 2011 Co-organizer of the Annual Research Day, Toronto, May 5, 2009 Vice President, Statistics Graduate Student Union, Toronto, Computer Skills Statistical Packages: R, S-Plus, BUGS, JMP IN, Minitab, SPSS, EViews, RATS Applications: L A TEX, common Windows database, spreadsheet, and presentation software. Last update: February 8, 2012