Marlos Viana,
Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Biostatistics
in Ophthalmology. His current primary research
is in the application of algebraic methods
to the analysis and interpretation of data
associated with symmetry conditions, with
particular interest in statistical and
linear optics, corneal topography, polarimetric
data, statistical (molecular) chirality
data, decompositions of entropy, and the study of short symbolic
sequences.
Professor Viana
has advised, taught, and collaborated with
students at all graduate and undergraduate
levels in a variety of theoretical and
applied fields since 1978. He teaches at
the Honors College and has a joint faculty
appointment with the College of Pharmacy
and the Honors College. He has served
as faculty statistician at UIC's General
Clinical Research Center and at UIC's
Institutional Review Board.
Professor Viana is a member
of several editorial boards and the
editor of Volumes 287 and 516 of the American
Mathematical Society's Contemporary Mathematics
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