PROFILE
Dana Sylvan, PhD, joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Hunter College in 2004. She obtained her professorship in 2016 and now serves as the STAT 213 course coordinator. Dana teaches graduate courses in spatial statistics, time series, mathematical statistics and probability and holds a data science lab where she mentors McNulty and McNair scholars.
Dana's research focuses primarily on mathematical statistics, with interests in modeling and prediction for space-time processes, quantile inference, smoothing techniques resampling methods for dependent data, applications in environmental sciences, epidemiology, neuroscience, medicine, psychology, public health and sports.
In 2018, she joined the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core for the Temple University Chase Cancer Center/Hunter College Synergistic Partnership for Enhancing Equity in Cancer Health (SPEECH), where she works to facilitate and enhance research by providing expertise in study design, statistical analysis, bioinformatics, genomics and data management.
Before coming to Hunter, Dana was a research associate at the University of Chicago where she worked on a multidisciplinary project focused on understanding the link between air pollution and respiratory health.