Martin Timothy Wells

Martin T. Wells is the Charles A. Alexander Professor of Statistical Sciences at Cornell University, where he also chairs the Departments of Statistical Sciences and Biological Statistics and Computational Biology. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1987 after earning his Ph.D. His research spans Bayesian analysis, high-dimensional statistics, model selection, graphical models, and statistical genetics, with recent work on Bayesian phylodynamic inference of population dynamics with dormancy, penalized regression for longitudinal omics, and geodesic variational Bayes for multiway covariances. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Statistical Society, he has served as editor for the *Journal of the American Statistical Association* and collaborates extensively with institutions across the US, France, Canada, Taiwan, and Germany.