Rebecca Carter Steorts | Scholars@Duke

Rebecca Carter Steorts
Associate Professor of Statistical Science

You can find more information about my research group and work at:

https://resteorts.github.io/

Recent papers of mine can be found at

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=steorts&searchtype=all&source=header

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Statistical Science, Statistical Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2022
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Basic Science Departments 2015
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2022

Contact Information

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Florida 2012
- M.S., Clemson University 2007
- B.S., Davidson College 2005
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Statistical Science, Statistical Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2022
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 - 2022
- Scholar In Residence in the Department of Statistical Science, Statistical Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
Recognition
In the News
- OCT 30, 2018 Duke Research Blog
  
  Cracking the Code on Credit Cards at Datathon 2018
- SEP 17, 2018
  
  Making Sense of Syria's Murky Death Toll
- MAR 16, 2016
  
  New Collaborative Seed Grant Program Gives Eight Awards
- OCT 1, 2015
  
  Beka Steorts: Human Rights Meets Big Data
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Research
  - Syrian Arab Republic (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Foreign-Born Scientists and Engineers and the U.S. Workforce (FBSE) awarded by Research Triangle Institute International 2022 - 2024
- HDR TRIPODS: Innovations in Data Science: Integrating Stochastic Modeling, Data Representation, and Algorithms awarded by National Science Foundation 2019 - 2023
- Unsupervised Detection of Bias in Record Linkage awarded by Google Inc. 2021 - 2023
- CAREER: Scalable Record Linkage through the Microclustering Property awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2023
- Interpretable and Scalable Entity Resolution Applied to the Decennial Census awarded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2019 - 2022
- Posterior Prototyping: Bridging the gap between Record Linkage and Regression awarded by North Carolina State University 2019
- Collaborative Research: Record Linkage and Privacy-Preserving Methods for Big Data awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2018
- LAS DO6: Theory and Methods for Coarsened Decision Making; Synthetic Data Release: The Tradeoff between Privacy and Utility of Big Data awarded by North Carolina State University 2016
- Metaknowledge Network: Knowledge about Knowledge to Answer the Big Questions awarded by University of Chicago 2015 - 2016
- Metaknowledge Network: Knowledge about Knowledge to Answer the Big Questions awarded by University of Chicago 2015 - 2016
External Relationships
- US Census Bureau
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Bedoya, Armando D., Meredith E. Clement, Matthew Phelan, Rebecca C. Steorts, Cara O’Brien, and Benjamin A. Goldstein. “Minimal Impact of Implemented Early Warning Score and Best Practice Alert for Patient Deterioration.” Crit Care Med 47, no. 1 (January 2019): 49–55. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000003439.
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  - Chen, B., A. Shrivastava, and R. C. Steorts. “Unique entity estimation with application to the syrian conflict.” Annals of Applied Statistics 12, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 1039–67. https://doi.org/10.1214/18-AOAS1163.
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  - Durante, D., N. Mukherjee, and R. C. Steorts. “Bayesian learning of dynamic multilayer networks.” Journal of Machine Learning Research 18 (April 1, 2017): 1–29.
  - Steorts, R. C., R. Hall, and S. E. Fienberg. “A Bayesian Approach to Graphical Record Linkage and Deduplication.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 111, no. 516 (October 1, 2016): 1660–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2015.1105807.
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  - Miller, Jeffrey, Brenda Betancourt, Abbas Zaidi, Hanna Wallach, and Rebecca C. Steorts. “Microclustering: When the Cluster Sizes Grow Sublinearly with the Size of the Data Set,” December 2, 2015.
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  - Wehbe, L., A. Ramdas, R. C. Steorts, and C. R. Shalizi. “Regularized brain reading with shrinkage and smoothing.” Annals of Applied Statistics 9, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 1997–2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/15-AOAS837.
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  - Sadosky, Peter, Anshumali Shrivastava, Megan Price, and Rebecca C. Steorts. “Blocking Methods Applied to Casualty Records from the Syrian Conflict,” October 26, 2015.
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  - Steorts, R. C. “Entity resolution with empirically motivated priors.” Bayesian Analysis 10, no. 4 (January 1, 2015): 849–75. https://doi.org/10.1214/15-BA965SI.
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  - Steorts, R. C., and M. D. Ugarte. “Comments on: “Single and two-stage cross-sectional and time series benchmarking procedures for small area estimation”.” Test 23, no. 4 (December 1, 2014): 680–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-014-0386-2.
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  - Steorts, Rebecca C. “Smoothing, Clustering, and Benchmarking for Small Area Estimation,” October 26, 2014.
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  - Broderick, Tamara, and Rebecca C. Steorts. “Variational Bayes for Merging Noisy Databases,” October 17, 2014.
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  - Steorts, Rebecca C., and M Delores Ugarte. “Discussion of "Single and Two-Stage Cross-Sectional and Time Series Benchmarking Procedures for SAE",” May 25, 2014.
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  - Fienberg, S. E., and R. C. Steorts. “Discussion of "Estimating the distribution of dietary consumption patterns".” Statistical Science 29, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 95–96. https://doi.org/10.1214/13-STS448.
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  - Steorts, R. C., R. Hall, and S. E. Fienberg. “SMERED: A Bayesian approach to graphical record linkage and de-duplication.” Journal of Machine Learning Research 33 (January 1, 2014): 922–30.
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  - Steorts, R. C., S. L. Ventura, M. Sadinle, and S. E. Fienberg. “A comparison of blocking methods for record linkage.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 8744 (January 1, 2014): 253–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11257-2_20.
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  - Ghosh, M., and R. C. Steorts. “Two-stage benchmarking as applied to small area estimation.” Test 22, no. 4 (November 1, 2013): 670–87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-013-0338-2.
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  - Pane, Michael A., Samuel L. Ventura, Rebecca C. Steorts, and A. C. Thomas. “Trouble With The Curve: Improving MLB Pitch Classification,” April 5, 2013.
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  - Steorts, Rebecca, and Malay Ghosh. “On Estimation of Mean Squared Errors of Benchmarked Empirical Bayes Estimators.” Statistica Sinica, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5705/ss.2012.053.
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  - Datta, G. S., M. Ghosh, R. Steorts, and J. Maples. “Bayesian benchmarking with applications to small area estimation.” Test 20, no. 3 (November 1, 2011): 574–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-010-0218-y.
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- Conference Papers
  - Steorts, R. C., A. Tancredi, and B. Liseo. “Generalized bayesian record linkage and regression with exact error propagation.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11126 LNCS:297–313, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99771-1_20.
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  - Steorts, R. C., and A. Shrivastava. “Probabilistic blocking with an application to the syrian conflict.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11126 LNCS:314–27, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99771-1_21.
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  - Zanella, G., B. Betancourt, H. Wallach, J. Miller, A. Zaidi, and R. C. Steorts. “Flexible models for microclustering with application to entity resolution.” In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 1425–33, 2016.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Global Scholarship

Research

Selected Grants

External Relationships

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Conference Papers

Recent Courses