Damla Şentürk
Turkish-American biostatistician
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Damla Şentürk is a Turkish-American biostatistician and professor of biostatistics in the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health[1] whose interests include longitudinal studies, functional data analysis, and applications of biostatistics in the study of autism and of dialysis outcomes.[1][2][3]
Education and career
Şentürk studied mathematics at Boğaziçi University, graduating in 1999. She came to the University of California, Davis for graduate study in statistics, earned a master's degree in 2001, and completed her PhD at Davis in 2004.[4] Her dissertation, Covariate Adjusted Regression and Correlation, was supervised by Hans-Georg Müller.[5]
She became an assistant professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University in 2004, and moved to the UCLA Department of Biostatistics in 2011, adding a joint appointment with the UCLA Department of Statistics in 2014.[4]
Recognition
Şentürk became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2006.[4] She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.[6]