Sonja Petrovi膰

  • Professor of Applied Mathematics

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Education

Ph.D. - University of Kentucky 2008
B.Sc. - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 2003

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

  • International Statistics Institute ( Elected Member since 2015)
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics ()
  • American Statistical Association () and the Chicago chapter
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics () and the Activity Group in Algebraic Geometry ()
  • American Mathematical Society ()

Awards

College of Science Excellence in Teaching Award, 2018
College of Science Dean鈥檚 Junior Research Excellence Award, 2015
Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), 2015

Publications

Full list appears here:

Grants

 

 

Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design

Gift fund for student fellowships for this initiative under my leadership. $85,000 from

Jan 2023 until June 2025, ongoing 

 

Randomized Algorithms for Solving Massive Discrete Optimization Problems (co-PI), 

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, DE-FOA-0002722

Grant total $450,000 (sole IIT PI)

Co-PIs: Leyffer (PI), Kim, and Menickelly, Argonne National Laboratory

Total budget of collaborative grant: $2,800,000

Nov 2022 - Oct 2025

 

Simons Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians (PI)

Grant #854770, $42,000

*Gift as of September 2022, under Travel Support for Mathematicians Program

Sep 2021 - Oct 2026

 

Algebraic Statistics 2022 Conference (Co-PI)

National Science Foundation (NSF-DMS)

Grant #2004271, $34,200

PIs: Gross (U Hawaii), Co-PI Karwa (Temple U)

June 2020 - June 2022

 

Randomized and Structure-Based Algorithms in Commutative Algebra (PI)

NSF-DMS Computational Mathematics Grant #1522662, $229,577

Co-PIs: Despina Stasi (IIT), Jesus De Loera (UC Davis)

(Total budget of collaborative grant: $460,000.) 09/2015-08/2019

 

Computational challenges in occupational health psychology: using statistics to model dynamic worker well-being

Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation (CISC) Seed Grant $40,000 

Co-PIs: Lulu Kang (IIT Applied Math) and Mahima Saxena (IIT Psychology)     01/2018-12/2018

 

Algebraic statistics for network models (PI)

U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Grant #FA9550-14-1-0141, $933,552

Co-PIs: Rinaldo and Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon, 06/2014-05/2017

 

Algebraic Statistics 2014: Conference at IIT (PI)

National Science Foundation (NSF-DMS)

Grant #1360777, $10,000

Co-PIs: Stasi, Sullivant, Yoshida, 2014

 

Algebraic statistics for network models (PI)

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Grant #FA9550-12-1-0392, $634,107

Co-PIs: Rinaldo and Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon, 07/2012-01/2014

 

Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies: conference at Penn State (co-PI)

National Science Foundation (NSF-DMS)

Grant #1208837, $36,000

Co-PIs: Morton (PI), and Sullivant, Slavkovic, and Denker 2012

 

AMS-Simons travel grant

American Mathematical Society Simons Foundation. $2,000. 07/2011-06/2012

Expertise

  • Algebraic statistics, applied and computational algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. Goodness of fit tests and parameter identifiability problems for social networks and biology, Applications of discrete mathematics to statistics and algebra.