Adam A. Szpiro, Ph.D.
Department
of
University of Washington
Phone: (206)
616-2766
Fax:
(206) 616-2724
Email:
aszpiro at u.washington.edu
Research
Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Selected
Publications
I am currently an assistant professor at the University of Washington,
and my interests in Biostatistics include
- Statistical techniques for environmental epidemiology
- Spatio-temporal
modeling
of
indivdual
level
exposures
for
subjects in
the MESA Air study
of air
pollution and subclinical cardiovascular disease.
- Methods
to
account
for
exposure
measurement
error when individual exposures are
predicted from a statistical model based on monitoring data.
- Connections between Bayesian and frequentist methods of inference, particularly a Bayesian paradigm for model-robust regression that is analogous to estimating equations and associated "sandwich" standard error estimates.
See
my professional CV
for
a detailed account of my experience before coming to the University of
Washington and my current activities
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From 1999 through 2006, I was a member of the Research Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and worked on a variety of scientific policy related problems in tactical air defense and bio-terrorism defense.
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Prior to that, I was a graduate student in Applied Mathematics at
Download from here
- A. Szpiro, P.D. Sampson, L. Sheppard, T. Lumley, S.D. Adar, and J.D. Kaufman, Predicting Intra-Urban Variations in Air Pollution with Complex Spatio-Temporal Dependencies, Environmetrics, In Press, DOI: 10.1002/env.1014, 2009.
- V. van Hee, S.D. Adar, A. Szpiro, R.G. Barr, D.A. Bluemke, A. Diez Roux, E. Gill, L. Sheppard, and J.D. Kaufman, Exposure to Traffic and Left Ventriculal Mass and Function: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, American Journal of Respiratory and Clinical Care Medicine, Vol 179, No. 9, 2009.
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S.D. Adar, M. Davey, J. Sullivan, M. Compher, A. Szpiro, and L.-J. Liu, Predicting Airborne Particle Levels Aboard Washington State School Buses, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 42, No. 23, 2008.
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A. Szpiro, B. Johnson, and D. Buckeridge, Health Surveillance and Diagnosis for Mitigating a Bioterror Attack, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2007.
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A. Szpiro, L. Sheppard, P.D. Sampson, and S.Y. Kim, Validating National Kriging Exposure Estimation, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, No. 7, 2007.
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C. Rudzinski, R. Herzig-Marx, J. Lin, A. Szpiro, and B. Johnson, Pathogen Detection Using Headspace Analysis, Proceedings of the Scientific Conference on Chemical and Biological Defense Research, 2004.
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A. Szpiro and P. Dupuis, Second Order Numerical Methods for First Order Hamilton-Jacobi Equations, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2002
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P. Dupuis and A. Szpiro, Convergence of the Optimal Feedback Policies in a Numerical Method for a Class of Deterministic Optimal Control Problems, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2001
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S. Lenhart, V. Protopoescu, and A. Szpiro, Optimal Control for Competing Coalitions, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Vol. 28, No. 8, 1997.
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A. Szpiro and V. Protopoescu, Parabolic Systems with Competitive Interactions and Control on Initial Conditions, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 59, No. 2-3, 1993.
Preprints
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A. Szpiro, L. Sheppard, and T. Lumley, Efficient Measurement Error Correction with Spatially Misaligned Data, Berkeley Electronic Press, University of Washington Biostatistics Working Paper, No. 350, 2009.
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A. Szpiro, K. Rice, and T. Lumley, Model Robust Regression and a Bayesian 'Sandwich' Estimator, Berkeley Electronic Press, University of Washington Biostatistics Working Paper, No. 338, 2008.
- K. Rice,
T. Lumley, and A.
Szpiro, Trading Bias for
Precision: Decision Theory for Intervals and Sets, Berkeley
Electronic
Press, University of Washington Biostatistics Working Paper, No. 336,
2008.