Dr. Elvan Ceyhan was born on 09/20/1974 in Turkey.
He had BS in Mathematics at Koc University
(KU), Istanbul. Then he had an MS from the Statistics
Department of Oklahoma State University in 2000, a
PhD from the Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Department of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU),
where he also received an MSE. Then he was a
post-doctoral fellow at Center for Imaging Science,
JHU. After his post-doc, he was an assistant professor at Department of
Mathematics at KU in 2005-2011, and an associate professor in
2011-2016. In 2016 he was a visiting associate professor at the Statistics
Department of University of Pittsburgh for one year. Between 2017 - 2019, he
served as the deputy director of SAMSI and a research associate
professor at Statistics Department of NC State University. Currently, he is an
associate professor at the Department of Mathematics
and Statistics of Auburn University. His research interests are graph-
and network-based learning and data science (pattern recognition, classification
and clustering); random geometric graphs (proximity catch digraphs, their
construction and characterization, domination, edge and arc density); network
optimization (in relation to stochastic obstacle scene problem and Canadian
traveler's problem); spatial point pattern and data analysis (by nearest
neighbor and graph theoretic methods) and their applications; statistical
methods for medical data and image analysis. He has (co)authored more than 55
journal articles, gave numerous invited talks and presentations. He served as an
associate editor for Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (2008-2016) and
Journal of Probability and Statistical Science (2007-2013, 2021- ), and
editorial board member of Model Assisted Statistics and Applications
(2007-2014). He was chosen as an "elected member" of International Statistical
Institute in 2011. Also, he has been elected and served as a member of BoD of
International Association of Statistical Computing between 2012-2016 and "TWAS
(The World Academy of Sciences) Young Affiliate Fellow" in (2012-2016) and
received the prestigious International Outgoing Fellowship grant from REA of
European Union in 2012, and a member of Global Young Academy in 2012-2017.