Rebecca Doerge

Affiliation
Dean, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon Univeristy

Educational Background
Cornell University: Post-Doctoral Scholar (1993–1995)
North Carolina State University: PhD, Statistics (1993)
University of Utah: MS, Mathematics (1988)
University of Utah: BS, Mathematics (1986)

About Rebecca
Rebecca Doerge is dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining both the department of statistics and department of biology at Carnegie Mellon , she was the Trent and Judith Anderson Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. Doerge joined Purdue University in 1995 and held a joint appointment between the colleges of agriculture (department of agronomy) and science (department of statistics).

Doerge’s research is focused on statistical bioinformatics, a component of bioinformatics that brings together many scientific disciplines to ask, answer, and disseminate biologically interesting information in the quest to understand the ultimate function of DNA and epigenomic associations.

Doerge is the recipient of the Teaching for Tomorrow Award, Purdue University, 1996; University Scholar Award, Purdue University, 2001-06; and Provost’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor, Purdue University, 2010. She is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2007), an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007), and a Fellow of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (2009). She has published more than 120 scientific articles and two books, as well as graduate 23 PhD students.

Doerge was born and raised in upstate New York. As a first-generation student, she studied theoretical mathematics at the University of Utah. It was there she gained interest and experience in both computing and human genetics (Howard Hughes Medical Institute). She earned her PhD in statistics from North Carolina State University under the direction of Bruce Weir and was a postdoctoral fellow with Gary Churchill at Cornell University.

Doerge is a member of the Board of Trustees for both the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and the Mathematical Biosciences Institute. She is a member of the Engineering External Review Committee at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Global Open-Source Breeding Informatics Initiative (GOBII) Advisory Board.