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David L. Banks

Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science
Statistical Science
Box 90251, Dept. of Stat. Sci., Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0251
210A Old Chemistry Building, Duke University, Durham, NC

Selected Grants


NRT-HDR: Harnessing AI for Autonomous Material Design

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2025

Adversarial Risk Analysis for Optimal Obstacle Evasion

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Auburn University · 2022 - 2025

SAMSI Statistics Advisory Group

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Security Agency · 2020 - 2025

HDR TRIPODS: Innovations in Data Science: Integrating Stochastic Modeling, Data Representation, and Algorithms

ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023

Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2020 - 2022

BIMD - Collaborate Research Agreement

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 2018 - 2020

Bayer Sponsored Research Agreement

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Bayer Pharmaceuticals · 2018 - 2020

13th ISBA World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2017

LAS DO5: Information Theoretic Measures for Complex and Uncertain Data

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2015 - 2015

Future States Processing Support

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2014 - 2015

RTI Research on Development of Drug Use Models

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research Triangle Institute · 2013 - 2013

Collaborative Research: Statistical Methods for Analyzing Complexity and Growth of Large Biological and Information Networks

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2011 - 2013

Models for Network Evolution: A Study of Growth and Structure in the Wikipedia

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2009 - 2011

Student Travel Support for the Isaac Newton Institute Workshops on Statistical Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Dat

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2008 - 2008

Moral Mathematics: The Science of Human Rights

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2008 - 2008

SCREMS: Distributed Environments for Stochastic Computation

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2004 - 2007

Collaborative Proposal: SGER: Social Measures of the Katrina Aftermath

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2006

External Relationships


  • City of Buffalo
  • Columbia University
  • ElevatePro
  • NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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